Jennifer Cole, Ph.D.
Director
Jennifer joined the faculty in Linguistics at Northwestern University in August 2016. Prior to that, she was Professor of Linguistics, Computer Science, and Cognitive Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also held the position of Co-Chair of the Biological Intelligence Research Theme at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from M.I.T., and her M.A. and B.A. in Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Visit Jennifer’s personal webpage for her CV and downloadable publications from projects pre-dating the launch of this lab.



Daniel Turner
Graduate student (2017- )
Before coming to Northwestern, Dan conducted research in linguistics, primarily syntax and cognitive linguistics, at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he also taught courses in linguistics, writing, and journalism. His current research interests include the prosody-syntax interface, psycholinguistics, and information structure.

 

Shawn Foster
Graduate student (2018- )
Shawn’s research interests include “phonological acquisition, language change, and sociolinguistics.

 


Kate Sandberg
Graduate student  (2019- )
Kate is interested in the role that social information might play in the perception and categorization of intonation.

 


Thomas Sostarics
Graduate student  (2019- )
Thomas is interested in the prosody-pragmatics interface, acoustic phonetics, and agrammatic aphasia.

 

 
Züheyra Tokaç
Graduate student (2020- )
Züheyra received a Master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Her previous research is on perception of linguistic rhythm and poetic meter. She is currently interested in psycholinguistics, phonology and speech perception.

 


Rebekah Stanhope
Graduate student (2022- )
Rebekah is interested in prominence, speech perception, and phonological acquisition.

 


Lab Alumni

Jeremy Steffman, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh
Postdoctoral researcher (2020-2022)

Timo Roettger, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Oslo
Postdoctoral researcher (2018-2019)

Eleanor Chodroff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University Zürich
Postdoctoral researcher (2017-2019)

Anna Robinson
Graduate student  (2019-2021)

Swapnanil Deb
Undergraduate student, Research Assistant (2019-2021)

June Choe
Graduate student, Linguistics, U Penn
Undergraduate student, Research Assistant (2018-2020)

Allison Hilger, MS, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
PhD, Communication Sciences and Disorders (2020)

Suyeon Im
Postdoc, Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language, Hanyang University
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Illinois (2018)

Amelia Kimball
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Illinois (2018)

Tim Mahrt
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Illinois (2018)

Priya Kurian
Undergraduate student, Research Assistant (2018-2019)

Alaina Arthurs
Undergraduate student, Research Assistant (2016-2019)


Collaborators (current and former)


Daniel Berry
Associate Professor, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota


Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois


José I. Hualde
Professor, Linguistics and Spanish  & Portuguese, University of Illinois


Khalil Iskarous
Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Southern California


Tatiana Luchkina
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, SUNY Stony Brook


Nancy McElwain
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, UIUC


Uwe Reichel
Research Fellow, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences


Caroline Smith
Professor, Linguistics, University of New Mexico


Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
Principal Research Scientist, Research Laboratory of Electronics, M.I.T.