2010, 2011, 2013 Graduate School Conference Travel Grant The Graduate School Northwestern University

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1 Department of Linguistics Northwestern 2016 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL RESEARCH INTERESTS Sources of lexical predictability Speech perception and production Influences of meaning-related and probabilistic top-down processes on word recognition and fluent production in discourse contexts EDUCATION Northwestern Evanston, IL 2014 Ph.D. in Linguistics Specialization in Cognitive Science Dissertation: Contextual constraints on phonological activation during sentence production (Chair: Dr. Matthew Goldrick) 2011 M.A. in Linguistics Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2011 Boulder, CO 2007 Stanford, CA Columbia New York, NY 2008 B.S. in Neuroscience & Behavior Summa Cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa GRANTS, HONORS & AWARDS 2010, 2011, 2013 Graduate School Conference Travel Grant The Graduate School Northwestern 2013 Student Travel Award LSA 13 Workshop: How the Brain Accommodates Variability in Linguistic Representations 2013 CUNY Travel Award 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing Graduate Research Grant: Contextual Constraints on Phonological Activation during Sentence Perception and Production Research Grants Committee Northwestern 2011 Linguistic Institute Fellowship Linguistic Society of America Cognitive Science Advanced Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research: Timing of Discourse-Thematic and Non-Thematic Words in Speech and Reading Cognitive Science Program Northwestern

2 Cognitive Science Fellowship Cognitive Science Program Northwestern 2008 Phi Beta Kappa School of General Studies Columbia Delta of New York 2008 Jennifer A. Pack Prize For excellence in the study of psychology School of General Studies Columbia PUBLICATIONS Heller, J. R., & Goldrick, M. (2014). Grammatical constraints on phonological encoding in speech production. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, Goldrick, M., Keshet, J., Gustafson, E., Heller, J., & Needle, J. (Submitted). Automatic analysis of slips of the tongue: Insights into the cognitive architecture of speech production. Heller, J. R., Pierrehumbert, J. B., & Rapp, D. N. (Under revision). How fine-grained is discourse predictability? Word burstiness affects lexical access. Heller, J. R., & Goldrick, M. (In preparation). Grammatically dependent and grammatically independent effects on phonological processing during spontaneous speech. Heller, J. R., & Goldrick, M. (In preparation). Meaning-related constraints modulate speech planning and phonetic processing but not phonological neighborhood activation during speech production. INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2013, March. Word predictability across processing levels. Language Processing Brown Bag at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Urbana, IL. 2011, April. How fine-grained is discourse predictability? How word recurrence patterns modulate on-line lexical predictability. Jointly sponsored by the Human Language Processing Lab and the Center for Language Sciences, of Rochester. Rochester, NY. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Heller, J., & Goldrick, M. (2013, November). Meaning-related constraints on phonological activation during speech production. Poster presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Toronto, ON. Heller, J., & Goldrick, M. (2013, July). Grammatical constraints on phonological encoding in speech production: Comparing effects on lexical access and phonetic encoding. Poster presented at the LSA 13 Workshop: How the Brain Accommodates Variability in Linguistic Representations. Ann Arbor, MI. Heller, J., & Goldrick, M. (2013, March). Grammatical constraints on phonological encoding in speech production. Paper presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC.

3 Heller, J., & Goldrick, M. (2012, July). Calling neighbors near and far: Effects of recent phonological neighbor mention on vowel articulation. Poster presented at the 7th International Workshop on Language Production (IWOLP 12). New York, NY. Heller, J., & Goldrick, M. (2011, November). Dynamic effects of phonological neighborhood density in laboratory and spontaneous speech. Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Seattle, WA. Heller, J., & Pierrehumbert, J. (2011, September). Word burstiness improves models of word reduction in spontaneous speech. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Paris, France. Heller, J., & Goldrick, M. (2011, July). Context matters: Effects of repetition and lexical neighborhood on vowel production. Poster presented at Testing Models of Phonetics and Phonology. Boulder, CO. Heller, J., & Pardo, J. S. (2010, October). First impression and speaker role influence VOT convergence during conversation. Paper presented at the 16th Annual Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (MCWoP). Evanston, IL. Heller, J., Pierrehumbert, J., & Rapp, D. N. (2010, September). Predicting words beyond the syntactic horizon: Word recurrence distributions modulate on-line long-distance lexical predictability. Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) York, UK. Heller, J., Lehnert-LeHouillier, H., & Goldrick, M. (2010, September). The dynamics of lexical neighborhood effects on phonetic processing. Poster presented at the 6th International Workshop on Language Production. Edinburgh, UK. Heller, J., Pierrehumbert, J., & Rapp, D. N. (2010, August). Word recurrence distributions modulate the on-line predictability of repeated words in extended texts. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Chicago, IL. Heller, J., Pierrehumbert, J., & Rapp, D. N. (2010, May). Predicting words at long distances: Investigating the role of word topicality. Paper presented at Illinois Speech Day Chicago, IL. Lehnert-LeHouillier, H., Heller, J., & Goldrick, M. (2010, March). Investigating lexically-conditioned phonetic variation using ultrasound. Paper presented at Ultrafest V. New Haven, CT. RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS 2009, 2012 Cognitive Architecture of Spoken Production RA for Matt Goldrick SoundLab, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern Timing of Discourse-Thematic and Non-Thematic Words in Speech and Reading Advanced Fellow for Interdisciplinary Research Cognitive Science Program, Northwestern

4 Phonetic Convergence in Spoken Communication RA for Jennifer Pardo Human Communication Lab, Department of Psychology, Columbia 2007 Audiovisual Alignment in Sentence Perception RA for Robert Remez Speech Perception Lab, Department of Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia TEACHING EXPERIENCE Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant for Masaya Yoshida, LING 260: Formal Analysis of Words and Sentences Department of Linguistics Northwestern Winter 2013, 2011 Teaching Assistant for Matthew Goldrick and Mark Jung Beeman, COG SCI 210: Language and the Brain Cognitive Science Program Northwestern (Weekly discussion sections) Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant for Ann Bradlow, LING 250: Sound Patterns in Human Language Department of Linguistics Northwestern (Guest Lecture: Consonants: Natural Classes and Articulation) Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant for Brady Clark, LING 243: Language Evolution Department of Linguistics Northwestern (Guest Lecture: Speech Production and Perception) Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant for Elizabeth Allyn Smith, LING 270: Meaning Department of Linguistics Northwestern (Guest Lecture: Tense and Aspect) ESL Tutor Graduate Student English Language Learners Program Northwestern PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS Academic Service NU Phonatics Discussion Group Coordinator 2011 NU Memory and Language Reading Group Organizer th Annual Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology Organizing Committee Columbia Linguistic Society Founding Member, Secretary Departmental Service (Northwestern Department of Linguistics) Graduate Representative to the Faculty Graduate Web Coordinator Colloquium Committee Reception Committee Ad Hoc Reviewer Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Journal of Phonetics

5 LANGUAGES Yiddish Reading, writing, and conversational proficiency German Reading proficiency Spanish Reading proficiency R (statistical analysis) Praat (acoustic analysis) MATLAB/Octave, Perl, Python, SQL (programming) HTML (web)