Associate Professor, Linguistics
Faculty Expert: General Linguistics, Articulation, Acoustics and Perception of Speech, Semantics
Dr. Howell's research examines the role of prosody (e.g. stress, intonation, rhythm) in determining meaning in English, in particular the phenomenon of focus. The long-term objective of his research is a model of focus that is both computationally effective, for the purpose of representing and detecting focus in language technologies, and scientifically transparent, in order to understand how focus is realized acoustically and conditioned pragmatically by human speakers.
He is also interested in scientific literacy instruction and has published on the topics of numeracy and information literacy in traditionally non-STEM fields.
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About Jonathan Howell
Faculty Expert: General Linguistics, Articulation, Acoustics and Perception of Speech, Semantics
Dr. Howell's research examines the role of prosody (e.g. stress, intonation, rhythm) in determining meaning in English, in particular the phenomenon of focus. The long-term objective of his research is a model of focus that is both computationally effective, for the purpose of representing and detecting focus in language technologies, and scientifically transparent, in order to understand how focus is realized acoustically and conditioned pragmatically by human speakers.
He is also interested in scientific literacy instruction and has published on the topics of numeracy and information literacy in traditionally non-STEM fields.
| September 2013 - Present | Associate Professor, Montclair State University ‐ Linguistics | |
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| July 2012 - June 2013 | Limited Term Appointment, Brock University ‐ Department of Applied Linguistics | |
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| 2011 - 2012 | Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University ‐ Department of Linguistics | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2017 - Present | Establishing a ground truth for focus placement |
| National Science Foundation - 1737846 | |
| EAGER: Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research | |
| Role: Principal Investigator | |
| Colleague(s): https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1737846&HistoricalAwards=false | |
| $105,894 | |
| 2010 - 2013 | Harvesting Speech Datasets for Linguistic Research on the Web |
| National Science Foundation - 1035151 | |
| Digging into Data Challege | |
| Role: Collaborator | |
| Colleague(s): Mats Rooth and Michael Wagner | |
| $100,000 | |
| 2010 - 2013 | Harvesting Speech Datasets for Linguistic Research on the Web |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | |
| Digging into Data | |
| Role: Collaborator | |
| Colleague(s): Mats Rooth and Michael Wagner | |
| $100,000 |
Courses
| 2012 | MA/PhD Linguistics, Cornell University ‐ Department of Linguistics | |
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| 2003 | BA Honours (Linguistics Major, English minor, French minor), University of British Columbia ‐ Department of Linguistics | |
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