Janet B. Pierrehumbert

Janet B. Pierrehumbert

Current Project Members and Students

  • Xiaowen Dong . Associate Professor, Dept. of Engineering Science and co-I on the EPSRC Project Exaggeration, cohesion, and fragmentation in on-line forums.
  • Felix Drinkall Dept. of Engineering Science MENg student, 2020-21; PhD student, Oxford Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, 2021 --
  • Valentin Hofmann , DPhil student, University of Oxford Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics.
  • Fangru Lin, DPhil student, University of Oxford Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics.
  • Ved Mathai , DPhil student, University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science.
  • Alba Su , DPhil student, University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science.

Former Ph.D Students and Postdocs

  • Eduardo G. Altmann (postdoc 2007-2008, co-advised with Adilson Motter) Professor and Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney.
  • Mary E. Beckman (postdoc 1984-84), Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Ohio State University.
  • Clayton Beckner , NZILBB Postdoc on Wordovators Project (2013-2018). Asst. Prof, Centre for Applied Linguistics, Univ. of Warwick.
  • Deborah Berkeley (Ph.D 2000) Gradient OCP Effects. Retired International Project Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA.
  • Katy Carlson (postdoc 2001-03), Prof. of English, Morehead State Univ.
  • Cynthia Clopper (postdoc 2006-7, coadvised with Ann Bradlow), Prof. of Linguistics, OSU. Assoc. Director, OSU Center for Cognitive Science.
  • Fred Cummins (postdoc 1997-98) Assoc. Professor, University College Dublin School of Computer Science and Informatics.
  • Robert Daland (Ph.D 2009) Word Segmentation, Word recognition, and word learning: A computational model of first language acquisition. Apple (Siri): Quality Engineer for Natural Language understanding
  • Lisa Dawdy Hesterberg, (MA 2012; Ph.D 2014) The Structural and Statistical Basis of Morphological Generalization in Arabic. Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, Google.
  • Stefan A. Frisch (Ph.D 1996) Similarity and Frequency in Phonology. Prof. of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Appalachian State University.
  • James Sneed German (Ph.D 2008) Prosodic Strategies for Negotiating Reference in Discourse. Maitre de conferences en Sciences du Langage (associate professor) Aix-Marseille University and Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence.
  • Carolyn Gottfurcht-Zafra (Ph.D 2007) Denominal Verb Formation in English. Adjunct Lect. in Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Univ. of Wisconson, Milwaukee.
  • Jennifer Hay (Ph.D 2000) Causes and Consequences of Word Structure. Prof. of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, NZ. Founder of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain, and Behaviour.
  • Samantha Gett Heidenreich (Ph.D 2019) Disjunctive Questions: Experimental Evidence in Prosody and Discourse
  • Independent Contractor at Lionbridge.
  • Sarmad Hussain (Ph.D in Communication Sciences and Disorders, 1996). Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Center for Language Engineering at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. IDN Programs Director, ICANN.
  • Kenneth Konopka (Ph.D 2011) The Vowels of Mexican Heritage English: Language Contact and Vocalic Variation in a Chicago Community. Lecturer in Linguistics, Northwestern University.
  • Isabelle Lorge (postdoc 2022-23) Research Scientist, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry
  • Rami Nair (Ph.D 1998) Syllables and Word Edges. Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, Northwestern University.
  • Jeremy Needle, (Ph.D 2018) Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Linguistics, University of Toronto..
  • Paul Röttger, DPhil in Social Data Science (20230, University of Oxford Internet Institute. Postdoctoral Fellow, MilaNLP Lab, Bocconi University
  • R. Alexander Schumacher (Ph.D 2018), Prepositions and Verbs in the Syntax and the Lexicon. Founder and Head of Data Science, Claira.
  • Kim Silverman (postdoc 1987-1989) Principle Research Scientist, Spoken Language Technologies, Apple.
  • Shirley Steele (postdoc 1986) New media artist.
  • Andrea Sims (postdoc 2006-8) Associate Professor of Slavic and Linguistics, OSU.
  • John Evar Strid (Ph.D 2006), The Effect of Phonological Structure on Visual Word Access in Bilinguals and Monolinguals. Assoc. Professor, Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, Northern Illinois University.
  • Xuejing Sun (Ph.D 2002, co-advised with Xu Yi), Senior Staff Researcher and Team Lead, Dolby Technologies.

Masters students and BA honours students