Megan McAuliffe

Megan Jane McAuliffe is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in speech production changes due to neurological injury, disease and ageing.

McAuliffe completed a PhD titled An investigation of articulation and speech rate in Parkinson's disease at the University of Queensland.^[1] McAuliffe then joined the faculty of the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor. As of 2024 she is the Dean of Postgraduate Research and Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Research.^[2][3] McAuliffe is co-director, with Catherine Theys, of the Speech-Language Neuroscience Lab at Canterbury.^[3]

McAuliffe's research has been funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, and she has served on the HRC grant assessment committee and on the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation scientific assessment committee.^[4][5] McAuliffe was an editor on the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research from 2017 to 2020.^[5]

McAuliffe's research focuses on neurological causes of speech impairment, called dysarthria, and she is particularly interested in comparing speech production and perception during healthy ageing and neurological impairment, such as Parkinson's disease. She has explored how speech production changes due to accent, ageing and neurological disease and injury. She has commented on why people with foreign accent syndrome, who have typically experienced neurological injury or impairment, feel they experience a change of accent.^[3][6]

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• Stephanie A Borrie; Megan McAuliffe; Julie M Liss (22 December 2011). "Perceptual learning of dysarthric speech: a review of experimental studies". Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 55 (1): 290–305. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0349). ISSN 1092-4388. PMC 3738172. PMID 22199185. Wikidata Q30451133.
• Megan McAuliffe; Carolyn R Baylor; Kathryn M Yorkston (27 June 2016). "Variables associated with communicative participation in Parkinson's disease and its relationship to measures of health-related quality-of-life". International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 19 (4): 407–417. doi:10.1080/17549507.2016.1193900. ISSN 1754-9507. PMC 6190828. PMID 27347713. Wikidata Q39652614.
• Stephanie A Borrie; Megan McAuliffe; Julie M Liss; Cecilia Kirk; Greg A O'Beirne; Tim Anderson (1 September 2012). "Familiarisation conditions and the mechanisms that underlie improved recognition of dysarthric speech". Language and Cognitive Processes. 27 (7–8): 1039–1055. doi:10.1080/01690965.2011.610596. ISSN 0169-0965. PMC 3760733. PMID 24009401. Wikidata Q30449807.
• Megan McAuliffe; Elizabeth C Ward; Bruce E Murdoch (1 January 2006). "Speech production in Parkinson's disease: I. An electropalatographic investigation of tongue-palate contact patterns". Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 20 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1080/02699200400001044. ISSN 0269-9206. PMID 16393795. Wikidata Q82175563.
• Megan McAuliffe; Elizabeth M R Gibson; Sarah E Kerr; Tim Anderson; Patrick J LaShell (1 August 2013). "Vocabulary influences older and younger listeners' processing of dysarthric speech". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 134 (2): 1358–1368. doi:10.1121/1.4812764. ISSN 0001-4966. PMID 23927132. Wikidata Q50356717.
• Megan McAuliffe; Elizabeth C Ward; Bruce E Murdoch; Anna M Farrell (1 May 2005). "A nonspeech investigation of tongue function in Parkinson's disease". The Journals of Gerontology. 60 (5): 667–674. doi:10.1093/GERONA/60.5.667. ISSN 1758-535X. PMID 15972622. Wikidata Q81880294.
• Megan McAuliffe; Elizabeth C Ward; L Bassett; K Perkins (1 June 2000). "Functional speech outcomes after laryngectomy and pharyngolaryngectomy". JAMA Otolaryngology. 126 (6): 705–709. doi:10.1001/ARCHOTOL.126.6.705. ISSN 0886-4470. PMID 10864105. Wikidata Q73917805.

• The Science of Human Communication, McAuliffe talking about the content of one of the courses she teachers, September 2018, via YouTube