Jordana Heller
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JORDANA R. HELLER
          Department of Linguistics
         Northwestern University
         2016 Sheridan Road
         Evanston, IL 60208-4090
         jordana at u dot northwestern dot edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Auditory perception and speech processing

  • The perception-production link in language learning and phonological change

  • Influences of meaning-related and probabilistic top-down processes on word recognition and fluent production in discourse contexts
    • EDUCATION

    Northwestern University
    2008 - Present | Evanston, IL
    Ph.D. Program | Department of Linguistics | Specialization in Cognitive Science

    Columbia University
    2005-8 | New York, NY
    B.S. in Neuroscience & Behavior | School of General Studies | Summa Cum Laude | Phi Beta Kappa

    Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
    2007 | Stanford, CA
    Summer coursework in linguistics

    Seattle Central Community College
    2003-4 | Seattle, WA
    Undergraduate coursework

    Emerson College
    2001-2 | Boston, MA
    Undergraduate coursework in Communication Disorders | Honors Program

    RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

    Timing of Discourse-Thematic and Non-Thematic Words in Speech and Reading
    2009 - Present | with Janet Pierrehumbert and David Rapp | supported by the Cognitive Science Program, Northwestern University

    Cognitive Architecture of Spoken Production
    2009 | Summer Research Assistant for Matt Goldrick, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University

    Phonetic Convergence in Spoken Communication
    2007-8 | Research Assistant for Jen Pardo, Department of Psychology, Barnard College

    Audiovisual Alignment in Sentence Perception
    2007 | Experimenter for Robert Remez, Department of Psychology, Barnard College

    PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS

    Northwestern University Department of Linguistics
    2009-10 | Colloquium Committee
    2008-9 | Reception Committee

    Columbia University Linguistic Society
    2007-8 | Founding Member & Secretary

    Linguistic Society of America

    HONORS & AWARDS

    Advanced Cognitive Science Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research
    Timing of Discourse-Thematic and Non-Thematic Words in Speech and Reading
    2009-10 | Cognitive Science Program | Northwestern University

    Cognitive Science University Fellowship
    2008-9 | Cognitive Science Program | Northwestern University

    Phi Beta Kappa
    2008 | School of General Studies | Columbia University | Delta of New York

    Jennifer A. Pack Prize
    2008 | For excellence in the study of psychology | School of General Studies | Columbia University

    Juan Jacobo de Lara and Jonne Low de Lara Foundation Scholarship
    2007-8 | School of General Studies | Columbia University

    Honor Society of the School of General Studies
    2007 | Columbia University

    Marshall L. Page Scholarship
    2006-7 | School of General Studies | Columbia University

    LANGUAGES

    Yiddish | Reading, writing, and conversational proficiency
    German | Reading proficiency


    jordana at u dot northwestern dot edu
    last updated october fourteenth, two thousand and nine