Jonathan Howell

Dr. Jonathan Howell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University, affiliated with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research focuses on prosody, particularly the role of stress, intonation, and rhythm in determining meaning in English, with a long-term goal of developing computationally effective models for language technologies and understanding human speaker pragmatics. He also investigates scientific literacy, including numeracy and information literacy in non-STEM disciplines.

Education: BA from the University of British Columbia, PhD from Cornell University. Office: Conrad J. Schmitt Hall 240E. Email: howellj@montclair.edu.

Research interests include focus realization, acoustic classification of prosody, and the application of web-based speech datasets. He has developed tools like Prosodylab-aligner for speech analysis. Office hours are held weekly during Fall semester.

His publications span computational linguistics, phonetics, and theoretical linguistics, with a focus on prosody-semantics interfaces and corpus methodologies. No awards are listed, though his work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to language technology and education.