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

• Certificate Requirements
• Curriculum

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