Jennifer S. Cole
Jennifer Sandra Cole is a professor of linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research uses experimental and computational methods to study the sound structure of language.[1] She is General Editor of Laboratory Phonology,[2] and a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.[3]
Her Ph.D. dissertation, Planar Phonology and Morphology, was completed in 1987, under the supervision of Morris Halle, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.[4] In 1991, the study was recognized by Garland Publishing and presented as an Outstanding Dissertation in Linguistics.[5] Cole introduced ranked constraints in formal grammar to model the interaction between morphology and phonology.[6] This was one of the first works in the generative phonology framework to model phonological grammar using constraint ranking, an approach which has been developed in Optimality Theory.[7]
A primary focus of Cole's research is on variation in the phonetic expression of words and the role of prosodic phrasing and prominence in influencing phonetic variation.[8] She applies linguistic models of prosody to research in computer speech recognition.[9]
Cole has carried out field research and authored encyclopedia articles on Sindhi (Indo-Aryan).[10] She served on the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (2006-2009).
Cole is promoting speech and language research in the broader context of interdisciplinary science in her role as Co-Chair of the Biological Intelligence research theme at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and as the 2015 Chair Elect of Section Z of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[11] She has served as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Linguistic Society of America (2007-2010).
References
- ↑ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Jennifer S. Cole
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- ↑ Cole, Jennifer S. Planar Phonology and Morphology, Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. New York: Garland. 1991. ISBN 0-8153-0165-0
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Further reading
- Cole, Jennifer S. Planar Phonology and Morphology, 1987. ISBN 978-0-8153-0165-3
- Cole, Jennifer S.; and Hualde, José Ignacio (ed.) Laboratory Phonology 9, Pub: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-018683-3