Stefan Frisch, Ph.D 1996, has been appointed Editor in Chief of the Journal of Phonetics. He has also been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the Univ. of South Florida.
In cooperation with Tiz Media Foundation and the Motorola Summer for Seamless Communications, Janet Pierrehumbert has been awarded an Innovation Generation Grant from the Motorola Foundation, 11/15/07 Announcement.
Pierrehumbert, Katsaggelos, Horton, and Wu have been awarded funding from the Motorola Corporation for a project entitled: "Audio-visual databases and architectures for improving recognition of reduced wordforms", 6/1/07.
The following papers were accepted for presentation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the LSA in Chicago, IL: [1] Alex Djalali, Janet Pierrehumbert, and Brady Clark. The effect of focus on bridging inferences. [2] James German and Janet Pierrehumbert. Conditions for accenting pronouns: Contrastivity versus attentional shift.
James German has accepted a post-doctoral position at Univ. of Aix-en-Provence, starting 9/1/08.
James German has been awarded a Northwestern University Dissertation Year Fellowship for AY 2007/08.
Robert Daland, Andrea Sims, and Janet Pierrehumbert have a paper accepted for the June 2007 ACL meeting in Prague.
Andrea Sims has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Slavic at Ohio State University, effective 9/2008.
Language and Music Systems partner Mirjam Ernestus wins EURYI Award
Language and Music Systems featured in the Spring 2006 issue of the
WCAS CrossCurrents Magazine.
Sarmad Hussain heads PanAsia internet access project in Pakistan.
Papers in Laboratory Phonology V (proceedings of Labphon5, Northwestern 7/96) reissued by Cambridge University Press.
ONZE group (et al. Jen Hay et al.) publishes New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution.
Pierrehumbert amongst the Ten elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
(Northwestern Observer May 13, 2004)
Routledge publishes Jen Hay's thesis Causes and Consequences of Word Structure.
James S. McDonnell 2002 Research Award in Studying Complex Systems
to Janet Pierrehumbert, "Dynamics and metastability in phonological grammar"