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About me

I'm an SNF Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zürich. I lead the Phonetics and Cognitive Science Lab (PaCSci Lab) within the broader Phonetics & Speech Sciences Group. My research focuses on the phonetics–phonology interface, cross-talker and cross-linguistic phonetic variation, speech prosody, and speech perception. I also occasionally dabble in morphophonology. A recurring theme in my research is the use of large spoken corpora to advance linguistic theory. Prior to my current position, I was Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology at the University of York, and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University in the Prosody & Speech Dynamics Lab. I received my PhD in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University and my BA in German and Linguistics from New York University.

How I pronounce my name: ['ɛlənɔɹ 'ʃadɹɔf]

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Useful links:

TidyVoice Challenge: Cross-lingual speaker verification at Interspeech 2026

TidyLang Challenge: Speaker-controlled language recognition at Odyssey 2026

VoxCommunis Corpus Click on "Files and versions" to view and download files

VoxAngeles Corpus

VoxClamantis Corpus