Eleanor Chodroff
University of Zurich | Department of Computational Linguistics
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Lab Members
Dr. Miao Zhang
Miao is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich in the SNSF project “Universals and variation in speech production”. He recently completed his PhD at the University at Buffalo.
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Jiachen Ma
Jiachen is a PhD student at the University of Zurich in the Department of Computational Linguistics.
Xinzi Hou
Xinzi is a PhD student at the University of York in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. Her research interests are in phonetics and phonology, especially in tone, intonation, and Chinese dialects. She is also interested in the languages of China's neighbouring countries that are influenced by Sinitic languages. Her PhD topic is on the relationship between tone and intonation in Nanning Mandarin. Xinzi received her BA in Chinese language and literature from Beijing Normal University and her MA in Linguistics from University College London.
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Leah Bradshaw
Leah is a PhD student at the University of Zurich in the SNSF project “Dynamics of indexical information in speech and its role in speech communication and speaker recognition”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Volker Dellwo, Prof. Dr. Lena Jäger and Prof. Dr. Eleanor Chodroff. Leah completed a BA in English Language and Linguistics (University of Sheffield, UK), followed by an MSc in Forensic Speech Science (University of York, UK). Her PhD project investigates the role of indexical acoustic properties to assist decision making in discriminating and identifying speakers, and the possibility of using different experimental techniques (namely, eye-tracking) to gain insights into this decision making process.
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Annie Baker
Annie is a PhD student at the University of Zurich and works on crosslinguistic variation in speaker-specific phonetic realizations.
Emily P. Ahn
Emily is a PhD student at the University of Washington in the Department of Linguistics. She currently studies phonetic and phonological typology from a computational linguistic perspective. She is supervised by Gina-Anne Levow and Eleanor.
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Lab Alumni
Dr. Liang Zhao
Liang received her PhD from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York in 2024. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Her dissertation was on the "Production and perception of lexical tone variation in Mandarin dialects". She was supervised by Eleanor and Prof. Paul Foulkes.
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Dr. Umar Gombe Muhammad
Umar received his PhD from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York in 2022. His dissertation was on "A Comparative Phonological Analysis of Varieties of English Spoken by Native Speakers of Nigerian Languages (Hausa, Igbo, Kanuri and Yoruba) for the Determination of Speakers’ Origins". Umar was supervised by Prof. Peter French and Eleanor.