Jelena Krivokapić
	Department of Linguistics University of Southern California 3601 Watt Way, GFS 301 Los Angeles, CA 90089 Email:  jelena.krivokapic AT yale DOT edu

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Education

Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, August 2007
M.A., 2003 Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
M.A., 1998 Department of English Studies, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany

Research Interests

• The effects of prosodic structure on articulation
• Articulatory characterization of spoken language
• The planning of prosodic structure, specifically the question of incrementality
• Other interests: syntax, morphology, neurolinguistics

Dissertation title: The planning, production, and perception of prosodic structure. pdf
Advisor: Dani Byrd

Publications

J. Krivokapić. (2007). Prosodic planning: Effects of phrasal length and complexity on pause duration. Journal of Phonetics, 35, 162-179. pdf

D. Byrd, J. Krivokapić, and S. Lee. (2006). How far, how long: On the temporal scope of phrase boundary effects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 1589-1599. pdf

S. Lee, D. Byrd, and  J. Krivokapić.(2006). Functional data analysis of prosodic effects on articulatory timing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 1666-1671. pdf

J. Krivokapić. (2006). Putting things into perspective: The function of the dative in adjectival constructions in Serbian. In Datives and Other Cases: Between Argument Structure and Event Structure, (eds.) Daniel Hole, André Meinunger & Werner Abraham. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 301-329.

J. Krivokapić. (2005). Crosslinguistic perspective: The case of the dative. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13: The South Carolina Meeting, (eds.) Steven Franks, Frank Y. Gladney & Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan Slavic Publications. 159-169.

J. Krivokapić. (1999). The -ing-affixation. An approach towards a classification. In Verbal Projections, (ed.) Hero Janssen. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 45-65.

Presentations and Published Abstracts

J. Krivokapić. An experimental inquiry into the relation of prosodic boundary perception and articulation. Talk to be presented at the 81^st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, California, 4-7 January 2007.

J. Krivokapić. (2006). Phrasal length and complexity effects on inter-phrase pause duration. Poster presented at the 152^nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2006. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120:3090. abstract.

J. Krivokapić. (2006). The scope of effect of prosodic boundaries in articulation. Poster presented at the 151^st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, Rhode Island, June 2006. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119:3304. abstract.

J. Krivokapić. (2006). The interpretation of pauses. Prosodic structure in speech planning. Presented at the USC Graduate Student Symposium "Interdisciplinary approaches to psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research: Investigating speech perception and production," Los Angeles, California, February 2006.

J. Krivokapić. (2006). The scope of prosodic boundary effects across varying prosodic categories. Presented at the 80^th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 2006.

J. Krivokapić. (2005). The phonetics of silence: Understanding the role of prosody in speech planning. UCLA Psycholinguistic Seminar. Invited talk, October 2005.

D. Byrd, J. Krivokapić, and S. Lee. (2004). On the temporal scope of boundary effects in articulation. Poster presented at the 148^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2004. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116:2643. abstract

J. Krivokapić. (2004). Relating the performance and perception of phrasal boundaries. Poster presented at the 148^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2004. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116:2643. abstract

J. Krivokapić. (2004). Prosodic complexity and phrase length as factors in pause duration. Poster presented at the 147^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, New York, May 2004. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115:2398. abstract

J. Krivokapić. (2004). Putting things into perspective - the role of the dative. Presented at Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 13, Columbia, SC, and at the workshop "Datives and Similar Cases," at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Germany, Mainz, Germany, February 2004.

Research and Teaching Experience

Research Assistant - Supervisor: Prof. D. Byrd, USC
Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Summer 2006
- Measured and analyzed articulatory movement-tracking (EMA) data, carried out experimental design, data collection, manuscript preparation.

Research Assistant - Supervisor: Prof. R. Pancheva, USC
Winter 2004, Spring 2005
- Coded Old Church Slavonic data for grammatical function.

Research Assistant - Supervisor: Prof. H. Borer, USC
Spring 2004
- Analyzed parts of the Switchboard corpus as to the frequency of silent intervals and hesitations in speech production and their relation to syntactic structure.

Teaching Assistant - LING 275 Language and Mind, USC
Fall 2002, Spring 2003

Research Assistant - Supervisor: Prof. S. Curtiss, UCLA
Summer 2000, Winter 2001, Summer 2001
- Analyzed language acquisition data of children who underwent hemispherectomy.

Researcher - Supervisor: Prof. D. Wunderlich, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
October 1998-September 1999
- Analyzed argument structure in nominalizations in Serbo-Croat.

Academic Memberships

Member of the Acoustical Society of America

Member of the Linguistic Society of America

Awards and Fellowships

Morkovin Graduate School Fellowship, USC, 2006-2007

Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science, Acoustical Society of America, 2005

Departmental Fellowship for attending the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, USC, 2005

College Merit Award Fellowship, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USC, 2001-2002, Fall 2003, 2005-2006

Departmental Supplemental Award, USC, August 2001

Education Abroad Program Fellowship, University of Göttingen and University of California, 1999-2000

Department Service

Member of the Abstracts Committee, Western Conference on Linguistics, 2004

Vice President of the USC Graduate Students in Linguistics, 2002-2003