Jennifer S. Cole

Jennifer Sandra Cole is a professor of linguistics and Director of the Prosody and Speech Dynamics Lab at Northwestern University. Her research uses experimental and computational methods to study the sound structure of language.[1] She was the founding General Editor of Laboratory Phonology (2009-2015)[2] and a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.[3]

Jennifer S. Cole
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Spouse(s)Gul Agha
Children3
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
ThesisPlanar Phonology and Morphology (1987)
Doctoral advisorMorris Halle
WebsiteNorthwestern: Jennifer S. Cole

Biography

Her Ph.D. dissertation, Planar Phonology and Morphology, was completed in 1987, under the supervision of Morris Halle, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.[4] In 1991, the study was recognized by Garland Publishing and presented as an Outstanding Dissertation in Linguistics.[5] Cole introduced ranked constraints in formal grammar to model the interaction between morphology and phonology.[6] This was one of the first works in the generative phonology framework to model phonological grammar using constraint ranking, an approach which has been developed in Optimality Theory.[7]

A primary focus of Cole's research is on variation in the phonetic expression of words and the role of prosodic phrasing and prominence in influencing phonetic variation.[8] She applies linguistic models of prosody to research in computer speech recognition.[9]

Cole has carried out field research and authored encyclopedia articles on Sindhi (Indo-Aryan).[10] She served on the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (2006–2009).

Cole promotes speech and language research in the broader context of interdisciplinary science in past roles as Co-Chair of the Biological Intelligence research theme at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (2010-2016), and as Chair of Section Z (2016) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[11] She has served as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Linguistic Society of America (2007–2010).

Personal life

Jennifer Cole is married to Gul Agha, with whom she has three daughters.

Selected publications
  • "Positional biases in predictive processing of intonation", 2020
  • "Perception of word-level prominence in free word order language discourse", 2019
  • "Prosody in context: A review", 2015
  • "Signal-based and expectation-based factors in the perception of prosodic prominence", 2010
  • "The role of syntactic structure in guiding prosody perception with ordinary listeners and everyday speech", 2010
  • "Unmasking the acoustic effects of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation: A statistical modeling approach", 2010
  • "Prosodic effects on acoustic cues to stop voicing and place of articulation: Evidence from Radio News speech", 2007
  • "An Optimal Domains theory of vowel harmony", 1995


References
  1. "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Jennifer S. Cole". Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
  2. "De Gruyter - Linguistics, Communications - Journals - Laboratory Phonology". Degruyter.de. Archived from the original on 2010-08-25. Retrieved 2010-12-22. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Association for Laboratory Phonology : Home". www.labphon.org.
  4. "Planar Phonology and Morphology". Dspace.mit.edu. hdl:1721.1/14637. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Cole, Jennifer S. Planar Phonology and Morphology, Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. New York: Garland. 1991. ISBN 0-8153-0165-0
  6. Cole, Jennifer (1995), "Eliminating cyclicity as a source of complexity in processing phonology.", in Cole, J.; Morgan, J.; Green (eds.), Linguistics and Computation, Stanford: CSLI, pp. 255–280, ISBN 1-881526-81-X
  7. "Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar" (PDF). Rutgers Optimality Archive. 2004: 3. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. Cole, Jennifer; Kim, Heejin; Choi, Hansook; Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark (2007), "Prosodic effects on acoustic cues to stop voicing and place of articulation: Evidence from Radio News speech.", Journal of Phonetics, 35 (2): 180–209, doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2006.03.004
  9. Chen, Ken; Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark; Cohen, Aaron; Borys, Sarah; Kim, S-S.; Cole, Jennifer; Choi, J-Y. (2006), "Prosody dependent speech recognition on Radio News corpus of American English", IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 14 (1): 232–245, doi:10.1109/tsa.2005.853208, S2CID 11814338
  10. Cole, Jennifer (2006), "The Sindhi Language", in Brown, K. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 11 (2 ed.), Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 384–386
  11. "Linguistics and Language Sciences (Z)". 19 June 2013.

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