Janet Breckenridge Pierrehumbert
September 20, 2008
ADDRESS
Linguistics Department
2016 Sheridan Road
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: 1-847-491-8058 Fax: 1-847-491-3770
Home Page: http://www.ling.northwestern.edu/~jbp
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Linguistics, MIT, 1980. Minor field: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dissertation Title: The Phonology and Phonetics of English Intonation.
Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow, University of Turku, Finland 1975-76.
A.B, Linguistics, Harvard University 1975. Summa cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa.
Minor field: Mathematics.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current appointments:
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 1993—
Director, Language and Music and Communication Group, The Northwestern Institute on
Complex Systems, 2004--
Professor by Courtesy, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders,
Northwestern University, 12/2002--
Affiliated faculty, Northwestern Program in Music Cognition, 2001--
Previous appointments:
Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor, Northwestern, 2005-2008.
Faculty, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, June-July 2005.
Visiting scholar, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, École Normale
Supérieure and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2003-2004.
Poste Rouge, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1/97--3/97.
Visitor, École Nationale Superieure des Télécommunications, Paris, 1996-7.
Faculty, LOT (Dutch post-graduate school of linguistics), University of Nijmegen, 1/97.
Astor Visiting Lecturer, Oxford University, June 8-15, 1995.
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 1989-1993.
Faculty, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, 1993.
Member of Technical Staff, Dept. of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligience Research,
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1982-89.
Visitor, Dept. of Speech Transmission and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, 1987-88.
Faculty, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, 1986.
Consulting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford Univ., 1984-85
Research Associate, Center for Cognitive Science, MIT, 1980-82.
Consultant, Dept. of Linguistics and Speech Analysis, AT&T Bell Labs, 1980-82.
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004--
Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, June-August 2003.
Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1996--.
Invited to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1997 (postponed).
American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, 1979-80.
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1976-1979.
Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1975-76.
RESEARCH SUPPORT
Pierrehumbert (PI) Horton (coPI, Psych), Katsaggelos (coPI, EECS), Wu (coPI, EECS). Audio-visual databases and architectures for improving recognition of reduced wordforms, Motorola Corporation, 9/2007-8/2009, $120,000.
Pierrehumbert (PI) and M. West (coPI), Speech and the Cell Phone: An Experiential Learning Project. Innovation Generation Program, Motorola Foundation, $49,791.00, 10/2007-12/2008.
Perception and Representation of Dialect Variation. NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award, 7/1/05 --- (Sponsor for individual post-doc to Cynthia Clopper).
Dynamics and Metastability in Phonological Grammar, James S. McDonnell Foundation,
$244,206, Jan. 2003- Dec, 2007.
Phonetic Foundations of Scansion. John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, $29,000. 1996-7.
Experimental and Computational Studies of Word Phonology,' NSF Faculty Awards for Women Scientists and Engineers, Grant No. BNS-9022484, $250,000, 1991-1996.
Intonation and Voice Source Characteristics,” NSF US-Sweden Cooperative Science Program, Grant No. INT-8712375, $9,250, 1988.
The Use of Intonation in Automatic Speech Understanding, NSF Information Science and Technology Program, Grant No. IST-8012248, $50,000, 1980-82.
MAJOR SERVICE RESPONSIBILITIES
External:
Editorial Board, LiLT, 2007--.
Associate Editor, Language, 2003-2005.
Steering Committee, Laboratory Phonology Conference Series, 1996--; Chair, 2003-04.
Advisory Editor, Oxford Surveys in Generative Phonology. 2000--.
Member of the Board of Experts, Phonetics Chair, University of Stockholm, 1999.
Co-organizer, Fifth Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Northwestern University,
July 1997.
Program Review Committee, UCLA Dept. of Linguistics, Jan. 1993.
Associate/Advisory Editor, J. of Phonetics, 1989 --
Executive Board, The ACL-MIT Press Series in Natural Language Processing, 1989-91.
Editorial Board, Computational Linguistics, 1986-1988.
Advisory Board, MIT Press Series on Cognitive Theory and Mental Represention.
Internal:
Director, Language Music and Communication Group, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, 2004--
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, 1999 and 2004--
Steering Committee, Mathematics Excellence at Northwestern Univ. (MENU), 2006--
Executive Committee, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, 2005--
Steering Committee, French Interdisciplinary Group, 2005--
Internal Reviewer, Department of Philosophy Program Review, 2004.
British Fellowships Committee 2002 --
Panelist, Northwestern University Internal Review Board, 2001-03.
Chair, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 1993-1996.
Cognitive Science Program Committee, 1995-96.
University Research Grants Committee, 1990-1994.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Beckman, M., and J. Pierrehumbert (accepted) A Laboratory Course in Phonology. Basil Blackwell (Textbook/research manual including compact disk with exercises.)
Broe, M. and J. Pierrehumbert, eds. (2000) Papers in Laboratory Phonology V: Acquisition and the Lexicon, Cambridge University Press.
Pierrehumbert, J. and M. Beckman (1988) Japanese Tone Structure, Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 15, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1980) The phonology and phonetics of English intonation. PhD thesis, MIT. Distributed 1988, Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Refereed serial publications:
Clopper, Pierrehumbert, and Tamati (under review) Lexical Bias in Cross-Dialect Word Recognition in Noise. Laboratory Phonology 11.
Tyler K. Perrachione,*, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Patrick C.M. Wong (under review) Differential neural contributions to native- and foreign-language talker identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Pierrehumbert, J. and C. Clopper (in press) What is LabPhon? and where is it going? Laboratory Phonology 10.
Clopper, C. and J. Pierrehumbert (2008) Effects of semantic predictability and regional dialect on vowel space reduction. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124(3) 1682-1688.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2006) The next toolkit. J. Phonetics 34(6), 516-530.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2006) The Statistical Basis of an Unnatural Alternation, L. Goldstein, D.H. Whalen, and C. Best (eds), Laboratory Phonology VIII, Varieties of Phonological Competence. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 81-107.
German, J., Pierrehumbert, J. and Kaufmann, S. (2006). Evidence for phonological constraints on nuclear accent placement, Language 82(1), 151-168.
Pierrehumbert, J., T. Bent, B. Munson, A. Bradlow, J. M. Bailey (2004) The influence of sexual orientation on vowel production. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116(4), 1905-1908.
Frisch, S Pierrehumbert, J. and Broe, M. (2004) Similarity avoidance and the OCP, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 21, 179-228.
Beckman, M., and J. Pierrehumbert (2004) Interpreting 'phonetic interpretation' over the lexicon, Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 13-38.
Hay, J. Pierrehumbert, J. and Beckman, M. (2004) Speech Perception, Well-Formedness, and the Statistics of the Lexicon, Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 58-74.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2003) Phonetic diversity, statistical learning, and acquisition of phonology, Language and Speech, 115-154.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2002) Word-specific phonetics . Laboratory Phonology VII, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 101-139.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2001) Why phonological constraints are so coarse-grained.. In J. McQueen and A. Cutler (eds) SWAP special issue, Language and Cognitive Processes 16 5/6, 691-698.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2001) Stochastic phonology. GLOT 5:6, 1-13.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2000) The phonetic grounding of phonology, Bulletin de la Communication Parlee 5, 7-23.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1999) What people know about sounds of language, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 29(2). 111-120.
Pierrehumbert, J. and R. Nair (1995) Word Games and Syllable Structure, Language and Speech 38, 78-116.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1994) Syllable Structure and Word Structure. Papers in Laboratory Phonology III, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK. 168-188.
Pierrehumbert, J. and D. Talkin, (1991) Lenition of /h/ and glottal stop. Papers in Laboratory Phonology II, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge UK. 90-117.
MacFarland, T. and J. Pierrehumbert (1991) On ichlaut, achlaut, and structure preservation, Phonology 8(1), 171-180.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1990) Phonological and Phonetic Representation, J. Phonetics 18, 375-394.
Pierrehumbert, J. and R. Pierrehumbert (1990) On Attributing Grammars to Dynamical Systems, J. Phonetics 18, 465-477.
Pierrehumbert, J. and S. Steele (1990) Categories of Tonal Alignment in English, Phonetica 47, 181-196.
Silverman, K. and J. Pierrehumbert (1990) The Timing of Prenuclear High Accents in English, Papers in Laboratory Phonology I, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. 72-106.
Beckman, M. and J. Pierrehumbert (1987) Tookyoo-go no seityoo koozoo, Onsei Gengo 2, 1-22.
Beckman, M. and J. Pierrehumbert (1986) Intonational Structure in Japanese and English, Phonology Yearbook III, 15-70.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1981) Synthesizing Intonation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70, 985-995.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1980) The Finnish Possessive Suffixes, Language, 56, 603-621.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1979) The Perception of Fundamental Frequency Declination, J. of Acoust. Soc. Am. 66, 363-369
Book chapters:
Pierrehumbert, J. (2003) Probabilistic Phonology: Discrimation and Robustness. In R. Bod, J. Hay and S. Jannedy (eds.) Probability Theory in Linguistics. The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 177-228.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2001) Exemplar dynamics: Word frequency, lenition, and contrast In J. Bybee and P. Hopper (eds.) Frequency effects and the emergence of lexical structure. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 137-157.
Pierrehumbert, J., M. Beckman, and D. R. Ladd (2000) Conceptual Foundations of Phonology as a Laboratory Science, In Burton-Roberts, P. Carr, and G. Docherty (eds). Phonological Knowledge, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 273-303.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2000) Tonal elements and their alignment, in M. Horne (ed) Prosody: Theory and Experiment. Studies Presented to Gosta Bruce. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 11-26.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1999) Formalizing Functionalism, in M. Darnell, E. Moravscsik, F. Newmeyer, M. Noonan and K. Wheatley (eds). Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics, John Benjamins, Amsterdam. Vol. I, 287-305.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1997) Consequences of Intonation for the Voice Source, in S. Kiritani, H. Hirose, and H. Fujisaki (eds.) Speech Production and Language, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. 111-131.
Pierrehumbert, J. and S. Frisch, (1996) Synthesizing Allophonic Glottalization, J. P. H. van Santen, R. Sproat, J. Olive, and J. Hirschberg (eds) Progress in Speech Synthesis, New York: Springer-Verlag. 9-26.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1994) Prosodic Effects on Glottal Allophones, in O. Fujimura, and M. Hirano, (eds)., Vocal Fold Physiology 8: Voice Quality Control. Singular Press, San Diego. 39-60.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1993) Prosody, Intonation, and Speech Technology,' in M. Bates and R. Weischedel, (eds.) Challenges in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge UK., 257-282.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1991) Music and the Phonological principle, in J. Sundberg, L. Nord and R. Carlson, eds. Music, Language, Speech and Brain, Macmillan Press. 132-147.
Pierrehumbert, J. and J. Hirschberg (1990) The Meaning of Intonation in the Interpretation of Discourse, in P. Cohen, J. Morgan, and M. Pollack, (eds) . Intentions in Communication, MIT Press, Cambridge MA. 271-311.
Liberman, M. and J. Pierrehumbert (1984) ``Intonational Invariance under Changes in Pitch Range and Length,'' in M. Aronoff and R. Oehrle, eds, Language Sound Structure, MIT Press, Cambridge MA. 157-233.
Conference proceedings:
Konopka and Pierrehumbert (in press) Vowels in Contact: Mexican Heritage English in Chicago. SALSA 10.
Daland, R., A. Sims, and J. Pierrehumbert (2007) Much ado about nothing: a social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Prague, Czech Republic, June 24th-29th, 2007.
Beckman, M. E. and Pierrehumbert, J. (2000) Positions, probabilities, and levels of categorization, Keynote address, Eighth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra, Dec. 4-7, 2000.
Coleman, J. and J. Pierrehumbert (1997) Stochastic Phonological Grammars and Acceptability, 3rd Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology: Proceedings of the Workshop, 12 July 1997. Association for Computational Linguistics, Somerset NJ. 49-56.
Pierrehumbert, J., M. Beckman, and D.R. Ladd (1996) Laboratory Phonology, in Durand, J. and B. Laks, (eds). Current Trends in Phonology: Models and Methods. CNRS, Paris-X and University of Salford, University of Salford Press, 535-548.
Pierrehumbert, J. and R. Nair (1996) Implications of Hindi Prosodic Structure, in Durand, J. and B. Laks, (eds) Current Trends in Phonology: Models and Methods. CNRS, Paris-X and University of Salford, University of Salford Press, 549-584.
Frisch, S., M. Broe, and J. Pierrehumbert (1995), The Role of Similarity in Phonology: Explaining OCP-Place, Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. (Stockholm, August 1995), 4 pp.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1994) Knowledge of Variation, Papers from the Parasession on Variation, 30th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, 25 pp.
Pierrehumbert, J. and S. Frisch, (1994) Source Allophony and Speech Synthesis, Conference Proceedings of the Second ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 4 pp.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1994) Alignment and Prosodic Heads, Proceedings of the Eastern States Conference on Formal Linguistics, Linguistics Graduate Student Association, Cornell University. 19 pp.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1992) Dissimilarity in the Arabic Verbal Roots, Proceedings of the 23rd Meeting of the Northeastern Linguistic Society, Graduate Student Association, U. Mass. Amherst. 367-381
Silverman, K., M. Beckman, J. Pitrelli, M. Ostendorf, J. Pierrehumbert, J. Hirschberg, and P. Price (1992). TOBI: A Standard Scheme for Labeling Prosody, Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language 92, Banff, Oct 12-16 1992.
Bird, S., J. Coleman, J. Pierrehumbert and J. Scobbie (1992), Declarative Phonology, Proc. of the XVth International Congress of Linguists, 9-14 August 1992, Laval Univ.
Pierrehumbert, J. and S. Steele (1987) How Many Rise-Fall-Rise Contours? Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Hirschberg, J., D. Litman, J. Pierrehumbert and G. Ward (1987) Intonation and the Intentional Structure of Discourse, Proceedings of the International Joint Congress on Artificial Intelligience.
Hirschberg, J. and J. Pierrehumbert (1986) Intonational Structuring of Discourse, Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 136-144.
Beckman, M. and J. Pierrehumbert (1986) Japanese Prosodic Phrasing and Intonation Synthesis, Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Anderson, M. J., J. Pierrehumbert, and M. Y. Liberman (1984) Synthesis by Rule of English Intonation Patterns, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Volume I, 2.8.1-2.8.4
Pierrehumbert, J. (1983) Automatic Recognition of Intonation Patterns, Proceedings of the 21rst Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 85-90.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1983) Linguistic Units for F0 Synthesis, Abstracts of the Tenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Foris Publications, Dordrecht, 137-144.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1981) Synthesizing English Intonation, Proceedings of the Symposium Prosodie, Groupement des Acousticiens de Langue Francaise, Toronto, May 1981.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1979) Intonation Synthesis Based on Metrical Grids, Speech Communication Papers Presented at the 97th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America, New York.
Breckenridge, J. and A. Hakulinen (1976) Cycle and After, Papers from the Parasession on Diachronic Syntax, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, 50-68.
Breckenridge, J. (1975) The Post-Cyclicity of Es-Insertion in German, Papers from the 11th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, 81-91.
Reviews, commentaries, reports:
Pierrehumbert, J. (2003) Review article: Phonology and Language Use (J. Bybee). Phonology 19(3), 459-463.
Pierrehumbert, J. (2001) Introductory note, CRULP Annual Student Report 2001.
Centre for Research in Urdu Language Processing, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1999) Prosody and Intonation. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1993) review of J. Goldsmith, Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology, J. of Phonetics, 357-362.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1991) The Whole Theory of Sound Structure, Phonetica 48, 223-232.
Beckman, M. and J. Pierrehumbert (1991) Tactics and strategies for thinking about f0 variation. Papers in Laboratory Phonology II, Cambridge University. Press, Cambridge UK. 387-397.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1990), Intonation. Oxford University Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press. Oxford.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1990) On the value of reductionism and explicitness in phonological models. Papers in Laboratory Phonology I, Cambridge University. Press, Cambridge UK, 276-279.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1989) A preliminary study of consequences of intonation for the voice source. Quarterly Progress and Status Report, Speech Transmission Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. 4/1989, 23-36.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1989). review of B. Altenburg. Prosodic Patterns in Spoken English. Studies in the Correlation between Prosody and Grammer for Text-to-Speech Conversion, Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 209-210.
Pierrehumbert, J. and M.Y. Liberman (1983) On Finding the Iguana, Contemporary Psychology, Vol 28(7), 569-570.
Pierrehumbert, J. and M.Y. Liberman (1982) Modelling the Fundamental Frequency of the Voice, Contemporary Psychology 27, 690-692.
Pierrehumbert, J. (1980) review of T. A. van Dijk, Text and Context: Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse, Journal of Linguistics, 16, 113-118.
Published conference abstracts:
Djalali , A., Pierrehumbert, J. & Clark, B. (2008): The effect of focus on bridging inferences. Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, Jan 5 2008)
German, J. & Pierrehumbert, J. (2008): Conditions for accenting pronouns: Contrastivity versus attentional shift, Linguistics Society of America, Chicago, Jan 5, 2008.
German, J., Carlson, K., and Pierrehumbert, J. (2005) Allophonic reassignment in dialect adaptation. Acoustical Society of America, Oct. 2005, Minneapolis.
Ortiz, J. A., Bradlow, A. R. and Pierrehumbert, J. B. (2004) Voiceless stop duration under narrow focus and in clear speech. 75th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2004, New York. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, S2541
Hay, J. J. Faust, J. Pierrehumbert, and M. Beckman, (1999) Lexical Frequency Effects in Speech Errors, Linguistic Society of America Bulletin. Jan 1999.
Bertram, A. and J. Pierrehumbert, A quantitative analysis of transitive phrasal verbs, Linguistic Society of America Bulletin, Jan 1994.
Shadle, C., J. Pierrehumbert and M.Y. Liberman (1979) The Intrinsic Pitch of Vowels in Sentence Context, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 66, S1, S64.
Liberman, M. and J. Pierrehumbert (1979) A Metric for the Height of Certain Pitch Peaks in English, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 66, S1, S64.
Breckenridge, J. (1977) The declination effect, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 61, S1, S90.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS:
Invited addresses and lecture series:
Sustaining Linguistic Complexity. Society for Language Development, Boston, Nov. 1, 2007. (Keynote address).
Language Dynamics and Social Networks. NWAV, Columbus, OH, Nov. 11, 2006. (Keynote).
Phonological learning and phonological learnability. LingEvid2006, February 4, 2006. (Keynote).
Incremental learning of the phonological grammar. LSA, Albuquerque NM, Jan. 8, 2006. (Panelist).
Formation and stability of phonological grammars. AAAS, Washington D.C., Feb. 2005 (Panelist)
Frequency effects in exemplar models, Linguistics Society of America, Oakland, January 2005 (Panelist).
Mergers and Near-Mergers, VarPhon (Variation and Change in Phonology and Phonetics), University of Potsdam, October 2004. (Keynote)
Fréquence et Structure, Journées Internationales du Réseau Français de Phonologie, Orléans, June 2004. (Keynote)
Sociocognitive models of language variation. University of Canterbury, New Zealand. June 2003-August 2003. (Lecture series).
Community Phonology, 39th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, June 2003. (with Paul Gross). (Keynote)
Exemplar Theory. Probability Theory in Linguistics 2, Linguistic Society of America, Atlanta, GA. January, 2003. (Panelist)
Words and wordoids. Journées d'études sur l'acquisition phonologique précoce. Carry-le-Rouet, France, October 2001. (Invited)
Beyond Contrast and Ease. Conference on the Phonology/Phonetics Interface, Berlin, Oct. 2001. (Keynote)
Probabilistic Approaches to Phonology. Linguistic Society of America-2001 Symposium on Probability Theory in Linguistics. Washington D.C. June 2001. (Panelist)
An exemplar model of phonetic knowledge and phonological change, Annual UNC Linguistics Colloquium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. April, 2000. (Keynote)
"#, ?, and +", 7th Conference in Laboratory Phonology, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics/University of Nijmegen. July 2000. (Invited).
What people know about sounds of language. Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 1999. (Plenary Forum Lecture).
Interpreting 'phonetic interpretation' over the lexicon, 6th Conference in Laboratory Phonology, University of York (with Mary Beckman), July 1998. (Invited)
Phonological grammar as perception of likelihood. The phonetic grounding of phonology. Current Trends in Phonology II, Royaumont, June 1998. (Invited).
The phonetic grounding of phonology. Texas Linguistics Society Phonetics/Phonology Conference, University of Texas, Austin, March 1998. (Keynote).
Experiments and Instrumental Surveys. Panel on Representations, paradigms, and problem choice in research on phonetic behavior. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Jan. 1998. (Panelist).
Prosody and Grammar, Linguistic Society of Finland. August 1997. (Keynote)
Post-modular ontology: phonetilogics versus phonetics, HILP3, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, January 1997. (Keynote)
Jeux de mots et structure phonologique. Dépendence des traits distinctifs. Sur l'Intonation. Institute de Linguistique et Phonétique Générales et Appliquées, Paris. December 1996-April 1997. (Lecture series, )
Formalizing Functionalism. 23th UWM Linguistics Symposium: Conference
on Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics. Milwaukee, April 1996. (Invited)
Competition and Cooperation in the Lexicon. Southwestern Optimality Theory Symposium. U.C Irvine, May 1996. (Keynote).
What's stress? Workshop on tone, stress, and intonation. Oxford University, June 8, 1995. (Keynote)
Astor Lecture Series, Oxford University, June 1995. (Lecture series).
The Use of Theory in Experimental Design, Symposium on Usage-Based Models of Language. Rice University, March 16-18, 1995. (Invited).
Implications of Hindi Prosodic Structure, Current Trends in Phonology: Models and Methods. Royaumont, June, 1995. (with R. Nair). (Invited).
Knowledge of Variation, Parasession on Language Variation, 30th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 1994. (Keynote).
Prosodic Effects on Glottal Allophones, 8th Vocal Fold Physiology Conference, Kurume, April 1994. (Invited).
Alignment and Prosodic Heads, Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Ohio State University, August 1993. (Keynote).
Prosodic Transcription and Why We Need it. NSF BBS funded conference.
Prosodically Transcribed Data and Transcription Tools for Linguistics Research. Ohio State University, June 1993. (Keynote).
Declarative Phonology, XVth International Congress of Linguists, Quebec, August 1992. (Panelist).
The Status of Two-Tone Transcription, NSF sponsored workshop on Grammatical Foundations of Prosody and Discourse, University of California, Santa Cruz. June 1991.
(Invited)
Music and the Phonological Principle, International Wenner-Gren Symposium on Music, Language, Speech, and Brain, Stockholm, Sept. 1990. (Invited).
Prosody, Intonation, and Speech Technology, Symposium on Challenges in Natural Language Processing, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge MA, Dec. 1989. (Invited).
The Timing of Prenuclear High Accents in English, 1rst Meeting on Laboratory Phonology, Columbus OH. 1987. (with K. Silverman) (Invited).
AI and the Sound Structure of Language, 6th National Congress on Artificial Intelligience, 1987. (with M. Y. Liberman). (Plenary address).
The Form and Interpretation of English Intonation, 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Palo Alto, 1987. (Tutorial).
After 25 Years, Directions of Natural Language Processing'. 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Palo Alto, 1987. (Panelist).
Linguistic Units for F0 Synthesis, 10th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Utrecht, 1983. (Panelist).
ADVISING
Chair of Ph.D Dissertation committee:
Kenneth Konopka (in progress) Sociophonetic Exploration of Mexican-American Vowel Patterns.
Robert Daland (in progress) Lexical segmentation, recognition, and acquisition.
James German (2008) Prosodic Strategies for Negotiating Reference in Discourse.
Carolyn Gottfurcht-Zafra (2007) Denominal Verb Formation in English.
John Evar Strid (2006) The Effect of Phonological Structure and Orthographic Depth on Visual Word Access.
Deborah Berkley (2000) Gradient OCP Effects. (Linguistic text engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond Washington).
Jen Hay (2000) Causes and Consequences of Word Structure. (Senior lecturer, University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ).
Rami Nair (1998) Syllables and Word Edges. (Lecturer, African and Asian Languages, Northwestern University)
Sarmad Hussain (1997) Phonetic Correlates of Lexical Stress in Urdu. ( Associate Professor and Head, Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore). (Co-advised with Bruce Smith.)
Stefan Frisch (1996) Similarity and Frequency in Phonology. (Assistant Professor,
Dept of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Florida).
Member of Ph.D Dissertation Committee:
Will Thompson (Linguistics, in progress)
Nattalia Paterson (Linguistics, in progress)
Louis Terry (EECS, in progress)
Youngeun Lee (Linguistics, 2006)
Jessica Peterson Hicks (Linguistics, 2006)
Tessa Bent (Linguistics, 2005)
Rachide Ridouane (Université de Paris III, 2003)
Xuejing Sun (Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2002)
Linda DiDesidero (Linguistics, 1999)
Grace Song (Linguistics, 1997)
Gerald Corrigan (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996)
Talke MacFarland (Linguistics, 1995)
Mari Olsen (Linguistics, 1994)
Betty Birner (Linguistics, 1992)
Andrea Simonsen (Communication Sciences and Disorders, 1991)
Chair of MA Committee:
Tyler Perrachione (2007) A Linguistic Basis for the Language-Familiarity Effect in Talker Identification.
D. Gordon (2003) Influence of Russian L1 Palatalization Rules on Three Consonants in Azeri L2.
L .Hartmann (2002) Morphological Competition in Conjugation of Spanish Verbs. Linguistics. (MA/BA program)
C. Coburn (2000) Production and Perception of Focus Intonation. Linguistics.
A. Talle, (1995) The Impact of lexical tone on the realization of melody in Vietnamese poetry recitation. Linguistics and Music Cognition. (MA/BA program)
A. Bertram (1994) A Quantitative Study of Transitive Phrasal Verbs: Form, Function, and Word Order, Linguistics.
M. Anderson, (1984) Pitch Determination of Speech Signals, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. (MIT-Bell Labs Coop Program).
Chair of Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee:
A. Gooch (2006) The Role of Reduced Vowel Durations in the Perception of Foreign Accents in French and English. (Linguistics).
S. Corrado (1994) An experimental study of stress on Russian nonwords. (Linguistics).
LANGUAGES:
French (excellent).
Finnish, Russian (reading).
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Funding Agencies:
National Science Foundation.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada.
The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, Sweden.
Journals/Publishers:
Cambridge University Press
Cognition
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Journal of Phonetics
Laboratory Phonology
Language
Language and Speech
MIT Press
Phonology
Speech Communication