Lauren M. Ackerman
Department of Linguistics
2016 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208
web: http://gradstudents.wcas.northwestern.edu/~lma777
email: [email protected]
phone: (609) 759-0562
Education
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Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Ph.D., Linguistics
2009 – 2015 (expected)
▸ Doctoral candidate
▸ Dissertation: Influences on Parsing Ambiguity (working title)
▸ Committee: Masaya Yoshida (chair), Matt Goldrick, Nina Kazanina (University of Bristol)
▸ Specialization in Cognitive Science
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
M.A., Linguistics
2012
▸ T hesis: How the prosody of center-embedded sentences relates to their structure
▸ Committee: Masaya Yoshida, Janet Pierrehumbert
Boston University
Boston, MA
B.A., Linguistics
2004 – 2008
▸ T hesis: The effect of linguistic environment on vowels sung at high pitches
▸ Committee: Jonathan Barnes (advisor), M. Catherine O’Connor, B. Lee Roberts
Publications
A1. Kim, M., L. Ackerman, L. A. Burchfield, L. Dawdy-Hesterberg, J. Luque, K. Mok, & A. R.
Bradlow. (2013). Rate variation as a talker-specific/language-general property in bilingual speakers.
Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 133, 3574.
Manuscripts Under Review
B1. Ackerman, L., M. Frazier, & M. Yoshida. (submitted). Resumptive Pronouns Can Ameliorate
Illicit Island Extractions.
Proceedings Papers
C1. Yoshida, M., L. Ackerman, M. Purrier, & R. Ward. (2014). The processing of backward sluicing.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS43), Vol. 2, pp.
261–272. City University of New York.
C2. Kim, M., L. Ackerman, L. A. Burchfield, L. Dawdy-Hesterberg, J. Luque, K. Mok, & A. R.
Bradlow. (2013). Rate variation as a talker-specific/language-general property in bilingual speakers.
Proceedings of the the 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (POMA), Montreal,
Canada.
C3. Bradlow, A. R., Ackerman, L., Burchfield, L., Hesterberg, L., Luque, J., and Mok, K. (2011).
Language- and talker-dependent variation in global features of native and non-native speech.
Proceedings of the XVIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
Oral Presentations
D1. Ackerman, L., N. Kazanina, & M. Yoshida. (2015). Cataphoric dependency search overrides, but
local coherence lingers. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA2015) –
Portland, OR (January 2015).
D2. Ackerman, L., M. Frazier, & M. Yoshida. (2015). Resumptive pronouns ameliorate island
violations in forced-choice tasks. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
(LSA2015) – Portland, OR (January 2015).
D3. Ackerman, L., N. Kazanina, & M. Yoshida. (2014). Local Coherence Does Not Override Previously
Made Structural Commitments. The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
(AMLaP) – Edinburgh (September 2014).
D4. Yoshida, M., L. Ackerman, R. Ward, & M. Purrier. (2012). The processing of backward sluicing.
The 25th Annual Conference On Human Sentence Processing (CUNY2012) – City University of New
York, NY (March 2012).
D5. Ackerman, L., L. Hesterberg, & A. R. Bradlow. (2011). Talker and language variation in the F0 of
English, Mandarin and Mandarin-accented English. Mid-Continental Phonology Conference
(MidPhon17) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (October 2011).
Invited lectures
E1. Local Attachment Does Not Override Previously Made Structural Commitments
Invited lecture in Ling 316, Northwestern University, 10/30/2014
E2. Introduction to Syntax (Part 2)
Invited lecture in Ling 260, Northwestern University, 10/25/2012
E3. Vowel Acoustics (Prezi format)
Invited lecture in Ling 250, Northwestern University, 04/11/2011
Poster Presentations
F1. Ackerman, L. & M. Yoshida. (2015). A third wh-phrase increases acceptability of ditransitive
multiple-wh-questions. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA2015) –
Portland, OR (January 2015).
F2. Ackerman, L. & M. Yoshida. (2014). Adding a Third Wh-phrase Sometimes Increases the
Acceptability of Multiple-wh-questions. The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language
Processing (AMLaP) – Edinburgh (September 2014).
F3. Ackerman, L., M. Frazier, & M. Yoshida. (2014). Resumptive Pronouns Ameliorate Island
Violations in Forced-Choice Tasks. The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
(AMLaP) – Edinburgh (September 2014).
F4. Frazier, M., P. Baumann, L. Ackerman, D. Potter, & M. Yoshida. (2014). Wh-dependency
resolution interrupts reflexive antecedent search on-line. The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for
Language Processing (AMLaP) – Edinburgh (September 2014).
F5. Ackerman, L., M. Frazier, & M. Yoshida. (2014). Resumptive pronouns salvage island violations in
forced-choice tasks. The 27th Annual Conference On Human Sentence Processing (CUNY14) –
Columbus, OH (March 2014).
F6. Frazier, M., P. Baumann, L. Ackerman, D. Potter & M. Yoshida. (2014). Local coherence effects
and crossing reflexive- and wh-dependencies. The 27th Annual Conference On Human Sentence
Processing (CUNY14) – Columbus, OH (March 2014).
F7. Frazier, M., P. Baumann, L. Ackerman, D. Potter & M. Yoshida. (2013). Intervention by gaps in
online sentence processing. Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) –
Marseilles, France (September 2013).
F8. Kim, M., L. Ackerman, L. A. Burchfield, L. Dawdy-Hesterberg, J. Luque, K. Mok, & A. R.
Bradlow. (2013). Rate variation as a talker-specific/language-general property in bilingual speakers.
The 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) – Montreal, Canada (June 2013).
F9. Purrier, M., M. Yoshida, L. Ackerman, & R. Ward. (2012). Online filler-gap dependency formation
and that-trace effect. The 26th Annual Conference On Human Sentence Processing (CUNY2013) –
Columbia, SC (March 2013).
F10. Yoshida, M., L. Ackerman, M. Purrier, & R. Ward. (2012). The processing of backward sluicing.
The 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS43) – City University of New
York, NY (October 2012).
F11. Ackerman, L. & M. Yoshida. (2012). Structurally informative prosodic cues in center-embedded
and right-branching sentences. The 25th Annual Conference On Human Sentence Processing
(CUNY2012) – City University of New York, NY (March 2012).
F12. Ackerman, L., L. Hesterberg, & A. R. Bradlow. (2012). Talker and language variation in the
LTASS of English, Mandarin and Mandarin-accented English. The 86th Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America (LSA2012) – Portland, OR (January 2012).
F13. Ackerman, L., L. Hesterberg, & A. R. Bradlow. (2011). Talker and language variation in the F0 of
English, Mandarin and Mandarin-accented English. (Talk.) Mid-Continental Phonology Conference
(MidPhon17) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (October 2011).
F14. Bradlow, A. R., L. Ackerman, L. A. Burchfield, L. Hesterberg, J. Luque, & K. Mok. (2011).
Language- and Talker-Dependent Variation in Global Features of Native and Non-Native Speech. The
17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) – Hong Kong, China (August 2011).
F15. Ackerman, L., M. Yoshida, & J. Pierrehumbert. (2011). Prosodic structure of center-embedded
sentences. The 24th Annual Conference On Human Sentence Processing (CUNY2011) – Stanford
University, Palo Alto, CA (March 2011).
F16. Bradlow, A. R., L. Ackerman, M. Baese-Berk, R. E. Baker, L. A. Burchfield, L. Hesterberg, M.
Kim, J. Luque, K. Mok & K. Van Engen. (2011). Speech Corpora for the Study of English in a
Global Context. New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research (VLSP) –
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (January 2011).
F17. Ackerman, L., L. A. Burchfield, L. Hesterberg, J. S. Luque, K. Mok, & A. R. Bradlow. (2010).
Development of ALLSSTAR: Archive of L1 & L2 Scripted and Spontaneous Transcripts and
Recordings. Mid-continental Workshop On Phonology (McWOP) – Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL (October 2010).
Awards, Grants, Honors, & Research Support
Northwestern University Graduate School (TGS) Travel Grant ($700)
Northwestern University Linguistics Department Travel Grant ($450)
Northwestern University Graduate School (TGS) Travel Grant ($700)
Northwestern University Linguistics Fellowship . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
UIUC FLAS Fellowship for the study of Greek ($15,000; declined) . .
Phi Beta Kappa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BU Student Research Award ($3,000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BU Funded Research Opportunity Grant (FROG) ($400) . . . . . . .
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Teaching Experience
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International Summer Institute
Northwestern University
ESL Tutor
Summer 2014
▸ Provided tutoring and proficiency test preparation to newly-arrived international students.
ESL Program
Northwestern University
ESL Tutor
Fall 2010, Winter 2012, Spring 2013
▸ Provided one-on-one tutoring to international students looking to improve their English.
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Ling 380: Culture and Fluency
ESL Lecturer
Northwestern University
Winter 2013
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Ling 243: Language Evolution
Teaching Assistant
Northwestern University
Fall 2012
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Ling 250: Sound Patterns of Human Language
Teaching Assistant
Northwestern University
Spring 2011, Winter 2015
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Ling 260: Formal Analysis of Words & Sentences
Teaching Assistant
Northwestern University
Winter 2011, Spring 2012
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Ling 270: Meaning
Teaching Assistant
Northwestern University
Fall 2011
Academic Service
◇ Subject Pool (Experimetrix) Coordinator for Northwestern University Linguistics Dept.
June 2010 – present
◇ Certified SPEAK test rater for Northwestern University ESL Program.
August 2010 – present
◇ Reception Committee for Northwestern University Linguistics Colloquia.
September 2009 – June 2010
Academic Affiliations & Service
◇ Member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.
January 2011 – present
◇ Member of the Linguistics Society of America.
December 2007 – present
▸ Student volunteer at the Annual Meeting of the LSA: 2011, 2012
▸ Moderator for Workshop on Interfaces at the Left Periphery, July 13–14, 2013
Other Research Experience
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The Speech Communication Research Group
Northwestern University
Affiliated member
June 2010 – September 2012
▸ ALLSSTAR database: developed and produced stimuli, recorded participants
OntoNotes
BBN Technologies
Annotator
November 2008 – September 2009
▸ Coreference annotation, Named Entities annotation, annotation protocol revision
MIT RLE: Speech-Communication Group
Research Assistant
▸ Landmark labeling, protocol revision
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
January 2007 – February 2008
Media Appearances
◇ Occasional contributor to Lexicon Valley on Slate.com
◇ Author of Wug Life, a tumblr-based blog designed for linguistic science communication.
◇ Invited discussant for Theater Wit + Stage Left + BoHo Theater production of Pygmalion
(01/13/2013)
◇ Interviewed for Slate (11/30/2012): Where Did the Expression Welp Come From?
◇ Interviewed for Copyediting (11/20/2012): Verbing Our Way Into Common Usage
Updated: November 12, 2014