Eleanor Chodroff

Eleanor Chodroff is an SNF Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zürich. She leads the Phonetics and Cognitive Science Lab (PaCSci Lab) within the broader Phonetics & Speech Sciences Group.

Her research spans the phonetics–phonology interface, cross-talker and cross-linguistic phonetic variation, speech prosody, and morphophonology. A central theme involves leveraging large spoken corpora to advance linguistic theory, with applications in speech recognition and phonetic analysis.

Former roles include Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology at the University of York and postdoctoral researcher in the Prosody & Speech Dynamics Lab at Northwestern University. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in German and Linguistics from New York University.

Recent collaborative projects include the CorpusPhon workshop (co-organized with Morgan Sonderegger), computational studies on temporal anticipation in speech, and methodological investigations of speaker heterogeneity in datasets like Common Voice. Her work intersects acoustic phonetics with machine learning frameworks, particularly in low-resource language contexts.