The Department of Linguistics would like to congratulate Jelena Krivokapić on her promotion to Associate Professor of Linguistics, with tenure!

Jelena’s research areas of interest include the effects of prosodic structure on articulation, the planning of prosodic structure, speaker interaction, and body gestures in speech.

Read Jelena's latest published research, "A kinematic study of prosodic structure in articulatory and manual gestures: Results from a novel method of data collection," from Laboratory Phonology.

The Board of Regents on Thursday, May 18, approved recommendations for new appointments and promotions for regular associate and full professor ranks, with tenure and/or promotion of faculty on the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses. The complete list of promotions can be found here.