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Aaron Kaplanمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Theoretical Phonology
• Optimality Theory
• Positional Licensing
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Aaron Kaplan is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utah, a position he has held since 1 July 2024 after earlier serving as Assistant Professor (2010–2018) and then Associate Professor. A theoretical phonologist specializing in prominence-driven processes and optionality, he employs Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar frameworks to investigate positional licensing, vowel harmony, and gradient grammaticality. Education BA, Linguistics – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002 MA, Linguistics – University of California, Santa Cruz, 2004 PhD, Linguistics – University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008 Research Focus Kaplan’s work is organized around two central themes: prominence-driven phonological processes —especially positional licensing—and optionality . His studies explore how certain positions (stressed syllables, word edges, etc.) become privileged targets or triggers for harmony, reduction, or epenthesis. Complementarily, he investigates how grammars permit variation, modeling categorical versus gradient ungrammaticality within Optimality Theory, Harmonic Grammar, and their stochastic variants. Publications Across more than thirty refereed papers and proceedings (2005–2025), Kaplan has examined phenomena ranging from Chamorro umlaut and Lango vowel harmony to Eastern Andalusian and Bolognese dialect data. A recurring thread is the integration of theoretical insights with computational modeling, yielding predictions about typological frequency, learnability, and speaker variation. Scientific Awards No specific awards are mentioned in the supplied materials. Advising & Grants No lists of advisees or funded grants are supplied. Labs & Teams Kaplan conducts research within the Linguistics Department at the University of Utah and maintains an active GitHub presence under username afkaplan , where he hosts supplementary materials for his articles and collaborates on computational phonology projects.

Silke Hamannمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Phonology
• Phonetics
• Language Acquisition
• +۸ مورد دیگر

Dr. Silke Hamann is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Linguistics. Her work bridges phonology and phonetics, focusing on the emergence of phonological features, perceptual cues in segmental contrasts, and the interaction of phonology with orthography and language acquisition. Current projects: diachronic loanword adaptation, congenital amusia's impact on speech perception, Bantu languages (with Nancy Kula and Laura Downing), Catalan studies (with Francesc Torres-Tamarit) Research interests span synchronic/diachronic phonology, phonetic perception, computational modeling of phonological acquisition, and cross-linguistic analysis of retroflex consonants. Her publications analyze phenomena in Korean, Japanese, Bantu languages, German, Portuguese, and Slavic languages, with recurring themes of cue weighting, phonological constraints, and orthographic influence. Recent articles highlight her focus on creaky voice diagnostics, loanword phonotactics, congenital amusia, and Bantu intonation systems. Collaborations with Nancy Kula (Bantu) and Francesc Torres-Tamarit (Catalan) underscore her international research network.

Mehmet Bardakçıمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• English Language Teaching (ELT)
• Foreign Language Education
• Curriculum Development
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Mehmet Bardakçı is a Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages Education at Gaziantep University's Education Faculty. With a PhD in English Education (2010) and MA in English Teaching (2005) from Turkish universities, he specializes in English Language Teaching (ELT), vocabulary acquisition, and digital pedagogy. His research examines teacher professional development, assessment literacy, and intercultural sensitivity in language learning. Education: PhD (2010), MA (2005), BA (2000) in English Education Leadership: Former Dean Assistant (2018-2020), Department Head (2012-2013), Institute Deputy Director (2015-2018) Research Trends include e-learning models like e-FLIP (2021-2023) and digital education tools. His 21 peer-reviewed articles and 14 book chapters focus on vocabulary depth/breadth, grammar instruction, and teacher-student dynamics. Supervision spans 19 graduate theses on topics ranging from flipped classroom effectiveness to assessment literacy. He collaborates internationally through projects like e-FLIP and ExBEdu , both EU-funded initiatives completed between 2021-2023.

• Lifelike Conversational Agents
• Speech Recognition
• Machine Learning
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Hiroshi Shimodaira is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, where he has been a faculty member since September 2004. He is affiliated with the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) and the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, contributing to interdisciplinary research in speech and language technologies. His research focuses on lifelike conversational agents with personalities, speech recognition (particularly acoustic models), character recognition, machine learning, and medical-image processing. He is particularly known for his work on anthropomorphic spoken dialogue agents and the development of the Galatea toolkit, an open-source software framework for lifelike conversational agents. His interests also extend to support vector machines and optimization techniques in pattern recognition. The recent publications and projects indicate a strong emphasis on machine learning applied to speech and character recognition, with a trend toward developing intelligent, interactive systems that emulate human conversational behavior. His work bridges theoretical machine learning with practical human-centered applications. Acoustics Society of Japan IEEE Signal Processing Society Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Dr. Shimodaira has advised PhD students and led several research initiatives, including the Galatea Project for anthropomorphic dialogue agents and work on handwriting-based communication for the visually impaired. He was previously a co-director of the Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory at JAIST, indicating a sustained record of research leadership. While no specific grants are listed, his project pages suggest involvement in funded research efforts. He leads and contributes to research groups such as CSTR and HCRC, and his lab work focuses on spoken dialogue systems, lifelike agents, and machine learning applications in speech and vision. The Galatea project represents a major software and research output from his team.

Erkki Huovinenمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Music Education
• Psychology of Music
• Philosophy of Music
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Erkki Huovinen is a Professor of Music Education at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2016. Previously, he held professorships in Musicology at multiple Finnish universities and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Music. He earned his PhD in Musicology at the University of Turku in 2002, focusing on tonality perception in melodies. His research spans the psychology of music , philosophy of music , and music education , with a focus on creativity, improvisation pedagogy, and mixed-methods approaches. Key Research Areas: Music and imagination, empirical studies on musical creativity, eye-tracking in music reading, theoretical understanding of musical aesthetics. Major Projects: Led the Academy of Finland’s Reading Music: Eye-Movements and the Development of Expertise (2014–2018), exploring visual processes in music reading. Publications: Over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book contributions, including works on music perception, improvisation psychology, and interdisciplinary methodologies. His research integrates qualitative and quantitative methods, such as microphenomenological interviews and eye-tracking studies. He has also contributed to textbooks like Musiikkipsykologia and edited volumes on musical improvisation. His work frequently bridges empirical research with philosophical inquiry, emphasizing the interplay between theory and practice. Grant History: Academy of Finland consortium leader (2014–2018). Teaching: Focuses on music education innovation and interdisciplinary pedagogy. Labs/Teams: Collaborates with interdisciplinary groups in cognitive science and music technology.

Emily Elfnerمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Linguistics
• Phonology
• Phonetics
• +۲ مورد دیگر

Emily Elfner is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University, specializing in phonological interfaces. Education includes: PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst MA, University of Calgary BA, University of Calgary Research investigates prosodic structures in endangered languages, particularly Kwak'wala phonology and Irish syntax-prosody interactions. SSHRC-funded fieldwork documents Kwak'wala intonation patterns. Publications demonstrate consistent focus on prosodic systems across diverse languages including Breton, Irish, Inuktitut, and Tlingit. Recent works examine word-order constraints, morphological-prosodic mappings, and recursive phonological structures.

David Searsمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Music Cognition
• Music Theory
• Computational Methods
• +۷ مورد دیگر

David Sears is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at Texas Tech University , affiliated with the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts . He co-directs the Performing Arts Research Laboratory (PeARL) and coordinates the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts Studies. Prior to TTU, he earned a PhD in Music Theory from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University (2016) and completed a postdoc at Johannes Kepler University (2017). Dr. Sears' research focuses on the structural parallels between music and language , particularly in tonal harmony, using behavioral and computational methods. His work also spans popular music analysis (e.g., 80s pop synthesizers, Billboard Hot 100 trends), music and emotion , DIY communities on platforms like Pinterest, and film/video game music (e.g., jump scares, autism spectrum emotion recognition). His publications appear in venues like Music Perception , Psychology of Music , and Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology . PeARL, where he is a director, employs methods from psychophysics , cognitive psychology, and music informatics to study music, theatre, dance, and visual arts. Current projects include modeling musical expectation , analyzing horror film soundtracks , and exploring DIY online communities . As a pedagogue, Dr. Sears teaches graduate seminars in the Fine Arts Doctoral Program and undergraduate/graduate music theory courses. His lab's recent graduates include Hannah Percival (2024) and Sylvia Weintraub (2024), with ongoing advising of PhD candidates like Elizabeth Acosta and Devin Guerrero.

Amalia Arvanitiمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Phonetics
• Laboratory Phonology
• Prosody
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Amalia Arvaniti is a Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures and the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University, Netherlands. She specializes in English Language and Linguistics with a strong focus on phonetics and laboratory phonology. Her research interests lie at the intersection of phonetics, phonology, and pragmatics, particularly in prosody, intonation, rhythm, sociophonetics, bilingualism, and language variation . She investigates these phenomena in both English and Greek, with a current emphasis on developing an integrated model of intonational form and function. The recent publications highlight a consistent focus on intonation and prosodic structure, drawing on experimental, phonetic, and pragmatic methodologies. Her work spans theoretical phonology and empirical phonetics, often using laboratory-based approaches to examine cross-linguistic patterns and speaker variability. ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-ADG-835263) for SPRINT project (2019-2025) Leverhulme Major Fellowship (UK, 2019-2020) Mohrmann Grant (Radboud University, 2020-2022) She leads the SPRINT project as Principal Investigator, which funds four post-doctoral researchers and supports training, dissemination, and international collaboration with scholars like Chris Cummins and Yiya Chen. Her teaching includes core courses in phonology, British English phonetics, and language variation at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She supervises Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Research Master’s theses, indicating active student mentorship. The research is conducted within the Speech Production and Comprehension Group, which employs behavioral and neurophysiological methods to study speech.

• Theoretical Linguistics
• Formal Semantics
• Formal Pragmatics
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Sophia A. Malamud is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University, where she directs the Meaning In Language Research Group (MILa) and is affiliated with the Language & Linguistics Program. Her research specializes in theoretical linguistics with a focus on formal semantics, formal pragmatics, discourse-syntax interactions, and semantics-pragmatics interface. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a dissertation on Semantics and pragmatics of arbitrariness and an M.A. in Mathematics exploring statistical decision theory in Entropy as relevance: maximizing entropy and minimizing loss . Malamud's research investigates discourse coherence, word order variations, indexicality, semantics of impersonals/plurals, speech acts, and utterance modifiers. She leads NSF-funded projects creating annotated corpora of spoken Russian (including the BiRCh Corpus), examining bilingual acquisition and heritage language phenomena. Her work employs corpus linguistics, experimental methods, and formal modeling. Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on pragmatic computation models, conversational dynamics, and cross-linguistic semantics, with frequent examination of Russian, Mandarin, and Greek data. Key themes include commitment avoidance strategies, conversational scoreboard modeling, and formal analyses of particles/pronouns. Awards include: NSF Grant BCS-1651083 for BiRCh Corpus development Mandel Foundation Faculty Grant for heritage language research Theodore and Jane Norman Award (2018) Multiple Brandeis Provost Research Grants Malamud has advised 8+ graduate/undergraduate theses on topics including heritage Russian pragmatics, utterance particles, reduplication, and distributivity. She collaborates internationally on corpus projects and directs research teams at Brandeis' Laboratory for Linguistics and Computation.

Christina Tzengمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Cognition
• Cognitive Science
• Spoken Language Perception
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Christina Tzeng serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology within San Jose State University's College of Social Sciences. Her research investigates the cognitive mechanisms enabling human comprehension of spoken language despite inherent variability from social factors including age, gender, and regional origin. She examines how listeners rapidly decode speech signals while simultaneously processing speaker identity and contextual information. Her primary research focuses on cognition, cognitive science, and spoken language perception, with emphasis on how social diversity in speech inputs shapes perceptual organization and auditory expectations. Key investigations include perceptual learning of non-native accents, lexically guided recalibration, integration of linguistic/non-linguistic speech properties, and sound symbolism. Her work demonstrates that speech variability—often perceived as noise—actually facilitates memory organization and predictive processing in human cognition. Dr. Tzeng's publication record (2010-2024) reveals consistent exploration of perceptual adaptation mechanisms, with recent work emphasizing attentional modulation in accent processing (2024), cumulative statistical learning in speech perception (2021-2023), and cross-modal correspondences in prosody (2016-2018). Her research trajectory shows increasing sophistication in modeling how social context interfaces with core speech processing systems. Scientific Awards: No awards documented in source material Advising and Grants: Source text provides no details regarding graduate student mentorship or research funding. Her background notes undergraduate research experience in human communication and memory labs, suggesting potential mentorship focus areas. Dr. Tzeng directs the Cognition of Language Processing (CLAP) Lab, which employs experimental methodologies to investigate spoken language perception. The lab's research framework positions speech diversity not as interference but as fundamental to human perceptual systems, with implications for understanding communication in multicultural contexts and developing more robust speech recognition technologies.

Adam J. Chongمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Phonology
• Phonetics
• Speech Perception
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Adam J. Chong is a Reader in Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the QMUL Phonetics Lab. As of September 2025, he will join the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor in Phonology and Language Processing. His research focuses on phonetic and phonological acquisition, intonation patterns in Singapore English, and prosodic cues in language processing. He holds a PhD from UCLA and has extensive experience in experimental and theoretical linguistics. Education: PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Research interests include theoretical/experimental phonology, speech perception, and the phonology-morphology interface. His work often examines how listeners process phonological variation and the role of prosody in language acquisition. A key focus is Singapore English intonation, exploring its sociolinguistic and acoustic characteristics. His publications analyze phonetic variation in child-directed speech, glottalization in Multicultural London English, and intonational patterns across dialects. He has contributed to understanding the cognitive mechanisms behind phonological learning in infants and the structural preferences in languages like Dinka. Awards: None explicitly listed in the provided text. Advising and grants: Currently not accepting PhD students for 2025-2026. Active in grant-funded projects, including those related to phonetics and language acquisition. Labs: Leads the QMUL Phonetics Lab and collaborates with the QMUL Language Acquisition Lab to explore experimental methods in linguistic research.

Marieke Einfeldtمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Bilingualism
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Dr. Marieke Einfeldt is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz's Department of Linguistics, focusing on the phonology-phonetics interface. Her work investigates topics such as trilingual first language acquisition (Standard German, Swiss German, and Italian), prosodic features of rhetorical questions, and bilingual language development. She is affiliated with Prof. Dr. Nicole Dehé's research group and previously contributed to Project 6 of the Questions at the Interfaces research unit, examining prosody in rhetorical questions. Her research spans phonological development in multilingual children, the interplay of discourse markers and prosody, and methodological advancements in psycholinguistic experiments using Active Learning systems. She holds a dissertation on trilingual consonant inventory acquisition, supervised by Prof. Dr. Tanja Kupisch, Dr. Mechtild Tronnier, and Prof. Dr. Bettina Braun. Key research interests include bilingualism, prosody, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. Her studies address topics like tonal transfer effects in L2 learning, geminate production in heritage speakers, and cross-linguistic comparisons of speech styles. She is based in Office G223 at the University of Konstanz.

• Nursing Education
• Clinical Practice Learning
• Caritative Caring
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Maria Koldestam is a researcher at the Department of Health and Caring Sciences within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Linnaeus University, specializing in nursing education and caritative caring frameworks for clinical practice learning. Her research focuses on: Development and evaluation of the MILO (Model for Improvements in Learning Outcomes) conceptual model grounded in caritative caring Undergraduate nursing students' learning experiences during clinical practice Children's speech intonation patterns and forest-based preventive health interventions Integration of caring and learning as parallel processes in educational settings Analysis of her 2021-2025 publications reveals a consistent methodological emphasis on phenomenographic and cross-sectional approaches to examine student perceptions, supervisor experiences, and semester-based learning progression within nursing education. Her work bridges theoretical caritative caring principles with practical clinical training applications. She leads two major research projects: "Learning to focus" investigating contrastive intonation in Stockholm and Skåne Swedish children, and "The forest – an active preventive health care for children?" implementing forest-based school interventions for grades 3-6. Koldestam is also affiliated with the "Connected children" research centre focused on knowledge-based prevention strategies.

Melissa Redfordمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Suprasegmental sound patterns
• Speech planning and production
• Child language acquisition
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Melissa Redford is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon's College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on suprasegmental sound patterns, speech planning and production, and child language acquisition. She leads the Spoken Language Research Laboratories (SLRL) at the University of Oregon, where she investigates the developmental aspects of speech motor control and prosodic structure. University: University of Oregon School: College of Arts and Sciences Department: Department of Linguistics Email: redford@uoregon.edu Dr. Redford's research program aims to develop a psychologically-plausible and biologically-sensible framework for understanding spoken language production. Key areas include the acquisition of articulatory timing skills, the relationship between phrase-level representations and planning processes, and the coordination of language and breathing during speaking. Her work challenges existing theories by emphasizing the developmental structuring of linguistic representations. Analysis of her recent publications reveals ongoing focus on prosodic development, coarticulation, and speech motor control across child and adult speech. Themes include the role of cognitive load in speech production, cross-linguistic rhythm acquisition, and the integration of acoustic theories with perceptual and motor processes. She employs methods ranging from computational modeling to audiovisual speech analysis. As an advisor, Dr. Redford oversees graduate student research in the Department of Linguistics. She also contributes to the University of Oregon's academic community through her leadership of the Spoken Language Research Laboratories, which employs interdisciplinary approaches to studying speech production and perception.

• First language acquisition
• Tense and aspect
• Telicity
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Dr. Angeliek van Hout is a faculty member at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Arts, where she leads the Acquisition Lab within the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG). Her academic profile centers on experimental research into first language acquisition in typically developing monolingual children, employing a crosslinguistic perspective to investigate fundamental aspects of language development. Her research expertise spans multiple interconnected domains of linguistic development: Temporal reference (tense and aspect, telicity, event culmination) Nominal reference (definiteness, quantification) Syntactic structures (questions, passives, pronouns) Pragmatic reasoning (scalar implicatures, theory of mind) Dr. van Hout's methodological approach integrates formal linguistic theory with empirical experimentation, examining how children acquire complex linguistic structures across different languages. Her recent work demonstrates particular focus on logical operators and their interpretation in child language, with extensive crosslinguistic comparisons examining how children process disjunction under negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian, and Italian. She investigates the cognitive mechanisms underlying these linguistic phenomena, bridging theoretical linguistics with cognitive science. Her publication record shows consistent productivity with 89 research outputs including 25 articles, 23 conference contributions, and 20 book chapters. Notable recent publications include work on prosodic disambiguation in Dutch, free choice interpretation in French children, and crosslinguistic patterns in quantifier acquisition. Dr. van Hout actively contributes to the academic community through: Supervision of PhD students (4 supervised works documented) Editorial work including the TABU Festschrift for Jack Hoeksema Organizing academic events such as "Novel Semantic Research in Theory, Processing and L1 Acquisition" Presenting research at international conferences including the Boston University Conference on Language Development Her research has practical applications in understanding typical language development trajectories, which she communicates to broader audiences through public engagement activities. She has presented on language development in twins at multiple public events and participated in the NEMO Science Live initiative from 2016-2018, demonstrating commitment to knowledge transfer beyond academic circles. As leader of the Acquisition Lab, Dr. van Hout directs research examining how children develop linguistic competence across various domains, with particular attention to the interface between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in early language development.