Curriculum vitae

I received my MA in phonetics, German philology, and computational linguistics from Trier University (Germany) in 1994. The same year, I was awarded a scholarship from the German Max Planck Society to do a Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In 1997, I received my Ph.D. in Psychology from Nijmegen University. In my PhD dissertation I investigated the role of the syllable in lexical access during speech production. The main results are published in Schiller et al. (1996), Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Schiller et al. (1997), Language and Speech, and Schiller (1998), Journal of Memory and Language. As of March 1998, I am affiliated with the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory of the Psychology Department at Harvard University. My research interests comprise phonological and morphological encoding in speech production, language processing in neurologically impaired patients, articulatory-motor processes during speech production, and forensic phonetics.

Recent publications

• Schiller, N. O. & Köster, O. (1995). Comparison of Four Widely Used F0-Analysis-Systems in the Forensic Domain. In A. Braun & J.-P. Köster (Eds.), Studies in Forensic Phonetics (pp. 146-158). Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
• Schiller, N. O. & Köster, O. (1996). Evaluation of a Foreign Speaker in Forensic Phonetics: A Report. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 3, 176-185.
• Schiller, N. O., Meyer, A. S., Baayen, R. H., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1996). A Comparison of Lexeme and Speech Syllables in Dutch. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 3, 8-28.
• Schiller, N. O., Köster, O., & Duckworth, M. (1997). The Effect of Removing Linguistic Information upon Identifying Speakers of a Foreign Language. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 4, 1-17.
• Schiller, N. O., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1997). The Syllabic Structure of Spoken Words: Evidence from the Syllabification of Intervocalic Consonants. Language and Speech, 40, 103-140.
• Köster, O. & Schiller, N. O. (1997). Different Influences of the Native Language of a Listener on Speaker Recognition. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 4, 18-28.
• Schiller, N. O. (1998). The Effect of Visually Masked Syllable Primes on the Naming Latencies of Words and Pictures. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 484-507.
• Schiller, N. O. & Köster, O. (1998). The ability of expert witnesses to identify voices: A comparison between trained and untrained listeners. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 5, 1-9.
• Köster, O., Hess, M. M., Schiller, N. O., & Künzel, H. J. (1998). The correlation between auditory speech sensitivity and speaker recognition ability. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 5, 22-32.
• Levelt, W. J. M. & Schiller, N. O. (1998). Is the syllable frame stored? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 520.
• Schiller, N. O. (1998). The Phonetic Variation of German /r/. In M. Butt & N. Fuhrhop (Eds.), Variation und Stabilität in der Wortstruktur. Untersuchungen zu Entwicklung, Erwerb und Varietäten des Deutschen und anderer Sprachen [Variation and Stability in Word Structure. Investigations on the Development, the Acquisition, and the Varieties of German and Other Languages] (pp. 261-287). Hildesheim: Olms (Germanistische Linguistik 141-142).
• Schiller, N. O. (1999). Masked syllable priming of English nouns. Brain & Language, 68, 300-305.
• Levelt, C. C., Schiller, N. O., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1999). A developmental grammar for syllable structure in the production of child language. Brain & Language, 68, 291-299.
  

Future publications

• Schiller, N. O. (2000). Single word production in English: The role of subsyllabic units during phonological encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, XXX-XXX.
• Schiller, N. O., Shelton, J. R., & Caramazza, A. (submitted). The autonomy of orthographic and phonological representations: Evidence from a graphemic buffer patient.
• Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (submitted). Gender or determiner selection interference? Evidence from noun phrase production in German and Dutch.
• Schiller, N. O., & Costa, A. (submitted). The role of the syllable in phonological encoding: Evidence from masked priming
• Levelt, C. C., Schiller, N. O., & Levelt, W. J. M. (in press). The Acquisition of Syllable Structure. Language Acquisition.
• Molloy, E. A., Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (in preparation). Categorical and associative priming: Differential effects in Stroop-like interference and negative priming.

Editorship

• The Phonetician. Newsletter of theInternational Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS)

Schiller's Home Page: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~nschille/