people

Principal Investigator: Michael Wagner

People currently doing research related to the lab:

At McGill:

Jonathan Howell (Postdoctoral Fellow. Digging into data project on Harvesting Speech Data Sets on the Web)

Aron Hirsch (McGill ’11. Projects on topicality and disambiguation)

Rachel Morasse (McGill ’10. Project on Emotive Prosody)

Erin Olsen (McGill senior. Project on speech segmentation)

Aleksandra Piwowarek (McGill ’11. Project on Vowel Harmony). Honor’s thesis

Steffani Scheer (McGill ’09, project on topicalization)

Jozina vander Klok (Ph.D. candidate, project on focus)

David-Etienne Bouchard (Ph.D. candidate, project on clitics)

At Cornell:

Masayuki Gibson (Ph.D. Candidate)

Alumni:

Aron Hirsch (2011). Patterns of Prosodic Prominence in English Intransitive Sentences. Honor’s thesis.

Aleksandra Piwowarek (2011). Vowel Harmony in Québec French.

Jonathan Abramsohn (2010). The word grinder. Honor’s thesis.

Jonathan Howell (2011). Doctoral Dissertation. Cornell University. Advisor: Mats Rooth

Nikola Predolac (2011). Syntax and Information Structure: Free Constituent Order and Flexible Relative Prominence in Serbian. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Advisor: Draga Zec

Kate McCurdy (2009. Honors B.A., McGill): Of focus, reason, and rhyme: the Rhyming Law revisited (One of two mini-theses submitted for the Honor’s BA).

Hyun-Kyung Hwang (2009): Prosody and WH-Scope in Pitch Accent Languages. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. Cornell University. Advisors: Abby Cohn & John Whitman

Serena Crivellaro (2008): Investigating Prosody Boundaries. Unpublished Masters Thesis, Cornell University.

Hye-Sook Lee (2008): Pitch Accent and its Interaction with Intonation. Experimental Investigations in North Kyeongsang Korean. Unpublished Ph-D. Thesis, Cornell. Co-Advised with Abby Cohn.

Current and Past Collaborators:

Asaf Bachrach