Research Seminar: Catalina Torres

The Speaker

Dr Catalina Torres is a language scientist. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the Distributional Linguistics Lab at the University of Zurich. Her research deals with word and phrase level prosody in the field of prosodic typology and neurolinguistics. She's particularly interested in how speakers chunk and highlight elements in the speech stream and how this interacts with other linguistic domains e.g., syntax. Catalina have worked on a variety of language families ranging from Indo-European to Oceanic over to Australian languages, more recently expanding to Otomanguean. She obtained her PhD in the Phonetics Laboratory at the University of Melbourne. During her doctorate she also worked at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. Her dissertation provides a detailed account of prominence marking and phrasing phenomena of Lifou French (a variety spoken in New Caledonia) and Drehu [d͡ʒehu], an Oceanic language from the South Pacific. Working for the company Appen Limited, Catalina gained experience in the area of language and technology. In her role as linguist lead, she used to coordinate linguistics projects in NLU and NLP.

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The Seminar

In this event in a series, speakers from within the Hub, the University, and the broader research community tell us about their research. Our Research Seminar Series involves speakers covering a broad range of themes surrounding our Hub’s interests, so we’ll hopefully all learn something interesting. Whether you want to learn to inform your own research or to simply satisfy a personal curiosity, we hope to see you there.

Watch the Replay

Watch the recording of this seminar here on the CHDH Youtube Channel