Karen Barto-Sisamout

Karen Barto-Sisamout worked on how native speakers of a tone language, Mandarin, acquire the intonation system of English.  In general, she is interested in L1-L2 interactions in prosody.  She also has interests in Lao phonetics.  Karen graduated from the SLAT (Second Language Acquisition and Teaching) program and now works at the Center for English as a Second Language at the University of Arizona.