I am a cognitive scientist who works in the linguistic subfields of phonetics and laboratory phonology. Most of my work is related in one way or another to speech prosody.

I completed my Ph.D. in the Linguistics Department at UCLA and have been at the City University of New York (CUNY) ever since. As of fall 2023, I am Professor in the following programs at CUNY: the Undergraduate Program in Linguistics at the College of Staten Island (where my lab, the CUNY Prosody Lab, is located), the MA/PhD Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the PhD Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center.

News / upcoming talks and posters

• Our group will have one poster and one talk at PaPE this summer (both on individual differences in prominence perception)
• We’ve been awarded $438,275 by NSF to build the The NYC Individual Differences Corpus! (Jason Bishop, Jelena Krivokapic, Laurel MacKenzie).

Recent Publications:

• Kim, B., Bishop, J., & Whalen, D. (2025). Lexical Stress in Mandarin Second-Language Speakers of English: An Electromagnetic Articulography Study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(30), 839-852. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00
• Çokal, D., Bishop, J., Torregrossa, J., Patterson, C., Grice, M., Wehrle, S., Lialiou, M., Repp, S., Seeliger, H., Eisenbeiß, S., von Heusinger, K., Vogeley, K., & Schumacher, P. (2025). Individual differences in discourse management. Frontiers in Communication. 10:1448463. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2025.1448463