Κ Ν Stevens

Biographic Data

ID4527128
NAMEΚ Ν Stevens
GIVEN NAMESΚ Ν
FAMILY NAMEStevens
SIGNATURESTEVENS Κ Ν
AFFILIATIONSMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ORCID0000-0003-4338-5599
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • The digital human something; or, the case of Miquela

    Open AccessKyle Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLEScreen2022

    The major Hollywood casting agency CAA recently signed a new performer, Miquela, a young woman who identifies as queer and multi-ethnic. She is also digital. Miquela rose to fame as a ‘virtual influencer’, one of several such figures on social media who share their seeming-lives with millions of followers. She makes music, has a biologically human boyfriend, and even takes selfies in moisturizing face masks. Miquela is part of a growing populatio…

  • When Movies Get Sick

    Kyle Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLECritical Inquiry2021

    Previous articleNext article FreeWhen Movies Get SickKyle StevensKyle Stevens Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore25 March 2020Space is never just space. Sometimes we think of it as the air around us. Sometimes we think of it as a thing in which to find a WiFi signal. Sometimes it’s what we ne…

  • Romantic comedy and the virtues of predictability

    Kyle Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLENew Review of Film and Television…2020

    While cinematic narratives are often evaluated and enjoyed in terms of their ability to captivate through suspense and revelation, in this essay, I mount a defense of narrative predictability. I take the genre of romantic comedy, arguably the most critically derided for its formulaic nature, as a case study, arguing that not only are there virtues to predictability but that the negative values that have been attached to it are often masculinist a…

  • Tossing truths

    Open AccessKyle Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLECritical Quarterly2010

    This paper theorises the style of improvisational comedy innovated by Mike Nichols and Elaine May in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Nichols and May's commentary relies on the listener's willingness to grasp – and to mock – conventions of ordinary language, and I recount the duo's history while examining their affinity to the contemporaneous work of J. L. Austin. Doing so allows me to demonstrate that Nichols and May complicate Austin's class of …

  • Response to commentaries

    Open AccessK N Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLEJournal of Phonetics1989Cited by: 1References: 14

  • Obituary

    Open AccessK N Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLEJournal of Phonetics1989

  • Effects of a vocal-tract constriction on the glottal source

    Open AccessC A Bickley, Corine Bickley et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics1986Cited by: 1

  • Invariant cues for place of articulation in stop consonants

    K N Stevens, Κ Ν Stevens et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of the Acoustical…1978

    In a series of experiments, identification responses for place of articulation were obtained for synthetic stop consonants in consonant–vowel syllables with different vowels. The acoustic attributes of the consonants were systematically manipulated, the selection of stimulus characteristics being guided in part by theoretical considerations concerning the expected properties of the sound generated in the vocal tract as place of articulation is va…

  • Development of a test of speech intelligibility in noise using sentence materials with controlled word predictability

    D N Kalikow, K N Stevens et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of the Acoustical…1977

    This paper describes a test of everyday speech reception, in which a listener’s utilization of the linguistic-situational information of speech is assessed, and is compared with the utilization of acoustic-phonetic information. The test items are sentences which are presented in babble-type noise, and the listener response is the final word in the sentence (the key word) which is always a monosyllabic noun. Two types of sentences are used: high-p…

  • Crosslanguage Study of Vowel Perception

    Open AccessK N Stevens, Κ Ν Stevens et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech1969Cited by: 19References: 14

    This study examines the discrimination and identification of synthetic rounded and unrounded vowels by speakers of two languages (English and Swedish). The unrounded vowels are phonemic in both languages, whereas the rounded vowels are phonemic only in Swedish. A subsidiary aim of the study is to compare the perception of the synthetic vowels with that of synthetic consonant-vowel syllables in which the consonants are stops arranged along a conti…