Joe Pater
Professor and Co-Director of the Computational Phonology Laboratory and Chair of the Personnel Committee
Joe Pater has been a member of the Department of Linguistics since 2000. He joined us after completing a Ph.D. at McGill in 1997, followed by a post-doc in Linguistics and Psychology at the University of British Columbia and a position at the University of Alberta. He has held European fellowships supporting research visits in Utrecht and in Paris, and his work is currently being supported by an NSF grant jointly held with Gaja Jarosz. He co-directs the Computational Phonology Laboratory.
Professor Pater specializes in phonology and language acquisition. His current research focuses on the use of weighted constraints for the modeling of phonology and its learning. He teaches courses in phonology at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including a course on the “Sounds of Englishes”, and supervises research by undergraduate and graduate students on phonology, phonological acquisition, experimental phonology, and computational phonology.