Department of Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Jennifer S. Cole

Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Linguistics
Beckman Institute

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    Department of Linguistics
    4112 Foreign Languages Building
    707 South Mathews
    Urbana, IL 61801
  • Telephone: 217-244-3057
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Research Interests

Phonology, phonetics, phonological processing, speech prosody



Education

  • Ph.D., Linguistics, MIT, 1987
  • M.A., Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1983
  • B.A., Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1982

Current Projects

  • Prosody research with large speech databases
  • Prosody and phonetic reduction in spontaneous speech
  • Phonotactic learning
  • Phonetic and lexical factors in vowel harmony
  • Sindhi: descriptive linguistics & pedagogy

    • Publications

    Edited Books

    • Cole, J., and J.I. Hualde. Laboratory Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.

    Journal Articles

    • Cole, J., H. Kim, H. Choi, and M. Hasegawa-Johnson. "Prosodic effects on acoustic cues to stop voicing and place of articulation: Evidence from Radio News speech." Journal of Phonetics (2007): 180-209.
    • Chen, K., M. Hasegawa-Johnson, A. Cohen, S. Borys, S-S. Kim, J. Cole, and J-Y. Choi. "Prosody dependent speech recognition on Radio News corpus of American English." IEEE Transactions in Speech and Audio Processing 14.1 (2006):
    • Choi, J-Y., M. Hasegawa-Johnson, and J. Cole. "Finding intonational boundaries using acoustic cues related to the voice source." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118.4 (2005): 2579-88.
    • Hasegawa-Johnson, M., K. Chen, J. Cole, S. Borys, S. Kim, A. Cohen, T. Zhang, J. Choi, H. Kim, T. Yoon, and S. Chavarria. "Simultaneous recognition of words and prosody in the Boston University radio speech corpus." Speech Communication 46.3-4 (2005): 418-439.