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Phonetics Laboratory

Welcome to the Phonetics Laboratory at the University of Cambridge

Based in the Raised Faculty Building in the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Section of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, the Phonetics Laboratory is home to research staff and students in phonetics and phonology, covering a range of subdisciplines in linguistics including forensic phonetics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language variation and change, phonological theory, prosody, pragmatics, morphology, and more.

 

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Events

The Phonetics Laboratory holds three regular activities: Phonetics and Phonology Seminar, Tone and Intonation Reading Group, and Forensic Phonetics Reading Group

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News and Media

Here you can find links to news articles and features on members of the Phonetics Lab.

Read more at: DIVERSE

DIVERSE

DIVERSE: Database of Individual Variation in English by Recording style and SEx. Multichannel recordings of female SSBE speakers for forensic phonetics. In 2025, PhD students Chloe Patman and Alice Paver , along with co-investigators Dr Kirsty McDougall and Professor Paul Foulkes (University of...

Read more at: ProsodAI - Neural Encoding of AI-Generated Speech Prosody by L1 and L2 Speakers

ProsodAI - Neural Encoding of AI-Generated Speech Prosody by L1 and L2 Speakers

Team: Dr Julia Schwarz (Psychology), Linda Bakkouche , Stephanie Cooper , Xinbing Luo , Madeleine Rees , Prof. Brechtje Post (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics), Charles McGhee (Engineering), Dr Kai Alter (Medical Sciences, Newcastle University) State-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI)-...

Read more at: Improving Voice Identification Procedures (IVIP)

Improving Voice Identification Procedures (IVIP)

'Improving Voice Identification Procedures' (IVIP) is an interdisciplinary project on earwitness evidence funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (Grant Ref: ES/S015965/1). The project aims to improve the understanding of earwitness behaviour and to improve the interaction of the criminal justice system with the use of earwitness evidence. IVIP brings together researchers in phonetics, linguistics, psychology, criminology and law, from four universities: University of Cambridge, De Montfort University, Nottingham Trent University and University of Oxford.

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