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Janet Pierrehumbert
Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor of Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies, Linguistics
Director, NICO Language Music and Communication
2016 Sheridan Rd
jbp@northwestern.edu
847-491-8058
Program Description
The Ph.D specialization in Language Music and Communication* is administered by NICO Language, Music, and Communication a research unit of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). This unit serves as a nexus for scientists and engineers engaged in research on human communication systems at all levels, from physics to biology to minds and societies. NICO-LMC researchers meet regularly both in interdisciplinary colloquium series and workshops, and in numerous smaller focused working groups.
The certificate program covers aspects of cognition and language such as sound structure and the dynamics of processing. More importantly, it integrates theories of the mental representation of language with theories of all the other components of language systems, ranging from acoustics to population dynamics. Our program brings together long term basic research on language with an engineering effort in communications and a life sciences effort in communication sciences and disorders. This program is designed to address the needs of scientists and engineers who have an integrated human and technical perspective on human language and communication.
The benefits of a this program include: Access to laboratory facilities and advising arrangements outside the student's home department, a certificate with the Ph.D attesting to the students interdisciplinary competence, participation in the NICO-LMC graduate association, and participation in NICO activities more generally.
Steering Committee
Ann Bradlow
Associate Professor and Chair, Linguistics Department
Aggelos Katsaggelos
Professor of EECS
Director, Motorola for Seamless Communications Center
Nina Kraus
Hugh Knowles Professor
The Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
Department of Otolaryngology
Cynthia Thompson
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
The Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Neurology
and the Language Music and Communication Director of Graduate Studies:
Sumitrajit Dhar
Assistant Profesor
The Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Affiliated Faculty
*Pending final approval of the Graduate Faculty
Last updated: Jan 22 2008 4:51PM
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