Janet Pierrehumbert

Janet Pierrehumbert
Born1954 (age 70–71)
Alma materMIT, Harvard
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
Scientific career
FieldsPhonology, Phonetics, Cognitive Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford, Northwestern, AT&T Bell Labs
Doctoral advisorMorris Halle

Janet Breckenridge Pierrehumbert /pɪərˈhʌmbərt/ (born 1954) is Professor of Language Modelling in the Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. She developed an intonational model which includes a grammar of intonation patterns and an explicit algorithm for calculating pitch contours in speech, as well as an account of intonational meaning. It has been widely influential in speech technology, psycholinguistics, and theories of language form and meaning. Pierrehumbert is also affiliated with the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour at the University of Canterbury.

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