Graduate Student, Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics
John Coleman
About
My unifying interest as a linguist is to combine the methodologies of computational modelling with experimentation, in order to understand the amazing complexity of ordinary human languages.
In my D.Phil. thesis I apply these methodologies to the phonology and morphology of Hawaiian, an endangered Eastern Polynesian language spoken across the islands of Hawai‘i, and one of my native languages.
As part of my postgraduate training, I have also had the opportunity to explore computation and experimentation through a number of research projects, both in and out of Oxford. For example, together with colleagues in London and Germany, I have been investigating the neural correlates of linguistic prosody by using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Contact Information
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~oiwi/
