I am a linguist who works in the subfields of phonetics and laboratory phonology. Most of my research 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; 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.

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News / upcoming talks and posters

• We are organizing the 13th Conference on Speech Prosody at the University of Pennsylvania (May 26 – 29): Please register and attend the conference, in person if you can!
• I will be giving a keynote talk at HISPhonCog 2026 at Hanyang University in Seoul (May 22-23). Mei-Ying Ki and I will also be presenting a poster
• Mei-Ying Ki and I gave a talk at ICPhov in Granada, Spain, in January; I also presented at a workshop at Jeju National University, South Korea, in January
• We’ve been awarded $438,275 by NSF to build the The NYC Individual Differences Corpus! (Jason Bishop, CSI-CUNY, Jelena Krivokapic, University of Michigan, and Laurel MacKenzie, New York University)

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