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Research Interests
Sound patterns of human languages. Primary area of research is prosody—the intonation and rhythmic patterns of language—and its role in conveying information about word and sentence structure, pragmatic meaning, speaker’s emotion, and the dynamics of social interaction. Second area of specialization is the phonology and phonetics of Sindhi, an Indo-Aryan language.
Education/Academic qualification
Linguistics, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… → 1987
Linguistics, MA, University of Michigan
… → 1983
Linguistics, BA, University of Michigan
… → 1982
Research interests keywords
- Phonetic variation
- Phonology
- Prosody
- Speech technologies
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A Family Genetic Study of Autism and Fragile X Syndrome
Losh, M. C. (PD/PI), Cole, J. S. (Co-Investigator), Kraus, N. (Co-Investigator), Lau, J. C. (Co-Investigator), Norton, E. S. (Co-Investigator) & Voigt, R. (Co-Investigator)
National Institute of Mental Health
8/13/24 → 4/30/29
Project: Research project
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A cross-linguistic, family-genetic study of language in autism and the broad autism phenotype
Losh, M. C. (PD/PI), Cole, J. S. (Co-Investigator), Kraus, N. (Co-Investigator), Lau, J. C. (Co-Investigator) & Voigt, R. (Co-Investigator)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
5/1/24 → 4/30/29
Project: Research project
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A Family-Genetic Study of Language in Autism
Losh, M. C. (PD/PI), Cole, J. S. (Co-Investigator), Goldrick, M. A. (Co-Investigator), Kraus, N. (Co-Investigator), Krizman, J. L. (Co-Investigator), Lau, J. C. (Co-Investigator), Luo, Y. (Co-Investigator), Norton, E. S. (Co-Investigator), Speights, M. L. (Co-Investigator) & Voigt, R. (Co-Investigator)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
9/1/23 → 6/30/28
Project: Research project
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Memory and context effects on representations of variation in phrasal intonation
Cole, J. S. (PD/PI) & Cole, J. S. (PD/PI)
3/1/20 → 8/31/25
Project: Research project
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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intonational Cues in Emotional Contexts
Cole, J. S. (PD/PI) & Cole, J. S. (PD/PI)
7/1/22 → 6/30/24
Project: Research project
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On the salience of prenuclear accents: evidence from an imitation study
Im, S., Hualde, J. I. & Cole, J., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Phonetica.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A minimal dynamical model of Intonation: Tone contrast, alignment, and scaling of American English pitch accents as emergent properties
Iskarous, K., Cole, J. & Steffman, J., May 2024, In: Journal of Phonetics. 104, 101309.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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CROWDSOURCED AND AUTOMATIC SPEECH PROMINENCE ESTIMATION
Morrison, M., Pawar, P., Pruyne, N., Cole, J. & Pardo, B., 2024, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2024 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 12281-12285 5 p. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access1 Scopus citations -
Intonational categories and continua in American English rising nuclear tunes
Steffman, J., Cole, J. & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., May 2024, In: Journal of Phonetics. 104, 101310.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Scopus citations -
K-means and hierarchical clustering of f0 contours
Kaland, C., Steffman, J. & Cole, J., 2024, In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. p. 1520-1524 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
Datasets
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Data for: Sound, structure and meaning: The bases of prominence ratings in English, French and Spanish
Cole, J. (Creator), Hualde, J. I. (Contributor), Smith, C. L. (Contributor), Eager, C. (Contributor), Mahrt, T. (Contributor) & Napoleão de Souza, R. (Contributor), Mendeley Data, Jun 22 2019
DOI: 10.17632/c6bbrvcfp7.1, https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/c6bbrvcfp7
Dataset
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Crowdsourced LibriTTS Speech Prominence Annotations
Morrison, M. (Creator), Morrison, M. (Contributor), Pawar, P. (Contributor), Pruyne, N. (Contributor), Cole, J. (Contributor) & Pardo, B. (Contributor), ZENODO, Dec 18 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10402793, https://zenodo.org/records/10402793
Dataset