Rate My Professor Stephanie Borrie

Borrie’s research investigates speech perception, human interaction, and motor speech disorders, particularly dysarthria in individuals with neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, stroke, and ALS. Her work examines how listeners adapt to dysarthric speech and how conversation partners coordinate behaviors through entrainment for effective communication. As principal investigator, she has secured seven grants totaling more than $6 million from the National Institutes of Health, including multimillion-dollar awards in 2024 and 2025 for clinical trials on listener training strategies to enhance intelligibility in Parkinson’s disease. Key publications include Portnova et al. (2025) on fundamental frequency variation in Parkinson’s speakers in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Wynn et al. (2024) on context-dependent conversational speech behaviors; Borrie et al. (2023) on perceptual learning of dysarthria in adolescence; and Wynn et al. (2022) on classifying conversational entrainment in the Journal of Phonetics. In 2024, she received the inaugural Emma Eccles Jones Dean’s Scholar award, a three-year $45,000 honor recognizing her scholarship. Borrie presented at TEDxUSU in 2017 on vocal entrainment and USU’s Blue Plate Research Series in 2024 on conversation science. Her scholarship, with over 1,900 citations, bridges basic research and clinical applications to improve communication outcomes.