University of Rochester

Research

Projects

Areas of Research

Linguistics

  • Experimental syntax
  • Language documentation
  • Phonology and phonetics
  • Morphological structures
  • Semantics and pragmatics
  • Sociolinguistics and dialectology
  • Syntax

Language Acquisition

  • Creolization
  • Lexical learning
  • Statistical learning: infants and children

Language Processing

  • Auditory processing of speech
  • Computational modeling
  • Speech and lexical processing
  • Sentence processing

Computational Linguistics

  • Dialogue systems
  • Data mining
  • Automatic translation

Interdisciplinary Research Meetings

Interdisciplinary Lab Meetings

  • Acquisition and Learning (Aslin/Kidd)
  • Auditory Processing of Speech (Carney/McDonough)
  • Big Picture (Allen/Gildea/Schubert)
  • Real-time Language Processing (Tanenhaus)
  • Human Language Processing (Jaeger)
  • Experimental Syntax (Runner)
  • Language Documentation (N. Grimm)
  • Quantitative Semantics (S. Grimm)

Special Topic Reading Groups (activities may vary)

  • Computational cognition
  • Experimental semantics and pragmatics
  • Gesture and intonation
  • Music and language
  • Quantitative semantics
  • Syntax processing
  • Word and pattern morphology