Dr. Pardo received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Yale University in 2000, and has held academic positions at Barnard College, Wesleyan University, and The New School for Social Research. Dr. Pardo’s research centers on the production and perception of spoken language, with an emphasis on understanding variation and convergence in phonetic form. This research program is currently supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, with previous support from the National Institutes of Health. Recent publications resulting from this research have appeared in Journal of Memory & Language, Frontiers in Psychology, and Discourse Processes.