Curriculum Vitae
Clara Cohen
Contact Information
112 Moore Building
Center for Language Science
Department of Psychology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802 USA
cpccohen@psu.edu
(510) 316-5065
http://www.personal.psu.edu/czc15/
Employment
2015 -
Postdoctoral scholar, Penn State University
2014-2015
Lecturer, San Francisco State University
Education
May 2014
Ph.D. in Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: Combining structure and usage patterns in morpheme production:
Probabilistic effects of sentence context and inflectional paradigms
Committee: Susanne Gahl (chair), Keith Johnson, Line Mikkelsen, Darya Kavitskaya
2010
M.A. in Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
2011
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Boulder, Colorado USA
2006
B.A. in Linguistics and Slavic Languages & Literature (with honors)
University of Chicago
Research interests
Psycholinguistics; Experimental linguistics; Phonetics; Morphology; Syntax; Bilingualism; Speech
production; Speech perception; Grammatical variation; Computational modeling
Publications
2016
Cohen, C., and Carlson, M. Phonetic Reduction Can Lead to Lengthening, and Enhancement Can Lead to Shortening. Proc. Interspeech 2016, 1094-1098. DOI:
10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1146
Kang, S., and Cohen, C. Relationships Between Functional Load and Auditory Confusability Under Different Speech Environments. Proc. Interspeech 2016, 2821-2825.
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2016-906
van Hell, J. G., Cohen, C., and Grey, S. Testing tolerance for lexically-specific factors in Gradient Symbolic Computation. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Doi:10.1017/S1366728916000122
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Curriculum vitae
2015
Cohen, C. Context and paradigms: Two patterns of probabilistic pronunciation variation in Russian agreement suffixes. The Mental Lexicon 10(3): 313-338. DOI:
10.1075/ml.10.3.01coh
2014
Cohen, C. Probabilistic reduction and probabilistic enhancement. Morphology 24(4):
291-323. DOI: 10.1007/s11525-014-9243-y.
2013
Cohen, C. Hierarchies, subjects, and the lack thereof in Imbabura Quichua subordinate
clauses. Survey Reports 15: 51 – 68.
2011
Cohen, C. Proto-Bantu–Nzadi Sound Correspondences. In Thera Crane, Larry Hyman,
and Simon Nsielanga Tukumu, A Grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: A Language of the
Democratic Republic of Congo, 255-270 . Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press.
Posters and Conference Presentations
2016
Cohen, C., Kang, S. and Fonyo, R. Task-dependent perception of acoustic detail. Paper
presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. February
7, Berkeley, CA, USA.
2015
Kang, S. Cohen, C. and Fonyo, R. Does knowledge of probabilistic pronunciation patterns aid perception? Paper presented at the 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America. November 4, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
Cohen, C and Kang, S. Perception, probability, and paradigm structure. Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing. March 20,
Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Cohen, C. A cascading activation model for phonetic enhancement of paradigmatically
probable morphemes. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics
Society of America. January 9, Portland, USA.
2014
Cohen, C. Contrast-driven phonetic variation in English and Russian. Poster presented
at the 27th Annual CUNY conference on Sentence Processing, March 14, Columbus,
OH, USA.
Cohen, C. Contextual and paradigmatic effects on the pronunciation of agreement morphology. Poster presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of
America. January 4, Minneapolis, USA.
2013
Cohen, C. Syntactic probability affects morpheme pronunciation. Poster presented at
the 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. December 5, San Francisco, USA.
Cohen, C. Contextually sensitive paradigm effects on the production of morphemes.
Paper presented at Morphology and its Interfaces, September 12, Lille, France.
Cohen, C. Predictability and the production of morphemes. Poster presented at the 8th
International Conference on Morphological Processing, June 20, Cambridge, UK.
Cohen, C. Predicting subject-verb agreement variation in Modern Russian. Poster presented at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 22, May 3, Hamilton, ON Canada.
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Curriculum vitae
2012
Cohen, C and Gahl, S. Can syntax influence morphological complexity? Evidence from
the gender congruency effect. Poster presented at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, March 16, New York, NY USA. (Also presented as
a talk at the Cognition and LAnguage Workshop [CLaW], April 14, Santa Barbara,
CA USA.)
2011
Cohen, C. Same-subject and different-subject subordinators in Imbabura Quichua: a
non-hierarchical subjecthood diagnostic. Poster presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, January 7, Pittsburgh, PA
Invited talks
2015
Featurally specific reduction and enhancement of affixes. Presented at the Spoken Morphology workshop. March 25, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf,
Germany.
2013
The (non)-effect of predictability on agreement production. March 1, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russian Federation.
Teaching interests
Introductory Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Morphology; Syntax; Quantitative methods; Experimental methods; Historical Linguistics
Teaching experience
Lecturer, Penn State University
Fall, 2016
Introduction to Data Analysis in R for Language Scientists
Spring, 2016
Acoustic Principles in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Lecturer, San Francisco State University
Spring, 2015
Phonology and Morphology
Fall 2014, Spring 2015
The Structure of English (Unofficially: Introduction to Syntax)
Acting Instructor, University of California, Berkeley
Summer 2012, 2013
Introduction to Linguistic Science
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley
Spring 2013
Quantitative Methods in Linguistics
Instructor: Susanne Gahl
Fall 2012
Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Instructor: Keith Johnson
Fall 2009, 2011
Introduction to Linguistics Science
Instructor: Andrew Garrett
Spring 2010, 2011
Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
Instructor: Lynn Nichols, Line Mikkelsen
Fall 2010
Comparative and Historical Linguistics
Instructor: Gary Holland
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Clara Cohen
Curriculum vitae
Grader, Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, Berkeley CA
Summer 2009
LSA 318: Syntactic Dependencies
Workshops
Through BITSS (Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences)
June 2015
Data management and statistical analysis in R
Transparency and Reproducibility Methods for the Social Sciences Training
(2 hours; with Garret Christiansen)
Through the UC Berkeley D-Lab
2014 - 2015
Exploratory plotting and data analysis
(2 hrs; offered 1-2 times a semester)
2013 - 2015
Introduction to R
(2 hours; offered 2-3 times a semester)
2014, 2015
R for Beginners INTENSIVE
(week-long; offered January, with Chris Krogslund)
Through the UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle
2011 - 2013
Introduction to LATEX and Beamer
(2 hours; offered once yearly)
Awards and Fellowships
Major awards
2013-2014
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Mellon Foundation
Spring 2012, 2013
Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
2013-2014
A. Richard Diebold, Jr. Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
2006-present
Member, Phi Beta Kappa
Minor awards
Fall 2013
Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley
Summer 2012-2013
Graduate Division Summer Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley
Spring 2011-2013
Linguistics Department Travel Grant, University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2012
Linguistics Department Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley
Summer 2011
Linguistic Institute Fellowship, Linguistics Society of America
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Summer 2011
Curriculum vitae
Linguistics Department Grant (LSA Institute), University of California, Berkeley
Service
Reviewer
National Science Center, Poland; Speech Communication; Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Organizer
2015–present
Co-founder, BARG (Bayesian Analysis Reading Group), Penn State University
2009–2011
UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle
2010
36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
2009-2010
Secretary, Berkeley Linguistics Society
Outreach
2015-2016
Co-organizer and presenter, Center for Language Science booth at Exploration U
May, 2014
Presenter, Computer Science Day for Girls, El Cerrito High School
Languages
English
Native
Russian
Intermediate
French
Intermediate
Polish
Basic
Imbabura
Quichua
Fieldwork (at UC Berkeley, 8/2009–6/2010)
Skills
• Computer languages: Python, Perl, R
• Applications: Praat, Experiment Builder, OpenSesame, E-Prime, LATEX, FLEx
• Quantitative: ANOVA, Multiple regression, Mixed-effects modeling, Growth-curve analysis
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