Daniel Brenner

dsbrenner@proton.me

I’m a phonetician and speech technology engineer working at the intersection of linguistic science and AI. My research focuses on speech production and perception, particularly the phonetics of conversational speech, nasalized fricatives, and tonal languages.

I formerly taught in the Human Language Technology program at the University of Arizona, where I offered courses in computational linguistics, statistical NLP, and advanced speech technology. Previously, I was an Associate AI Engineer at ETS, where I built speech scoring systems for language learning applications including TOEFL and TOEIC products.

I hold a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Arizona, with specializations in phonetics and cognitive science. My dissertation investigated the phonetics of Mandarin tones in conversation.

news

Jan 15, 2026	Teaching LING 538: Computational Linguistics, LING 581: Advanced Computational Linguistics, and LING 696G: Advanced Speech Technology at the University of Arizona this spring.

selected publications

@article{kharlamov2023examining,
  author = {Kharlamov, Viktor and Brenner, Daniel and Tucker, Benjamin V},
  title = {Examining the effect of high-frequency information on the classification of conversationally produced {English} fricatives},
  journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {154},
  number = {3},
  pages = {1896--1902},
  publisher = {AIP Publishing},
}

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@article{Tucker2018,
  author = {Tucker, Benjamin V and Brenner, Daniel and Danielson, D Kyle and Kelley, Matthew C and Nenadi{\'c}, Filip and Sims, Michelle},
  title = {The massive auditory lexical decision {(MALD)} database},
  journal = {Behavior research methods},
  year = {2018},
  pages = {1--18},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

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@article{Ussishkin2017,
  author = {Ussishkin, Adam and Warner, Natasha and Clayton, Ian and Brenner, Daniel and Carnie, Andrew and Hammond, Michael and Fisher, Muriel},
  title = {Lexical representation and processing of word-initial morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation},
  journal = {Laboratory Phonology},
  year = {2017},
  number = {22},
  publisher = {UBIQUITY PRESS LTD},
}

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@article{Warner2015,
  author = {Warner, Natasha and Brenner, Daniel and Schertz, Jessamyn and Carnie, Andrew and Fisher, Muriel and Hammond, Michael},
  title = {The Aerodynamic Puzzle of Nasalized Fricatives: Aerodynamic and Perceptual Evidence from {S}cottish {G}aelic},
  journal = {Laboratory Phonology},
  year = {2015},
  volume = {6},
  number = {2},
  pages = {197--241},
}

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