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Phonetics Laboratory

 

Staff

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
Areas of Interest: 
Phonetic theory, sound change and language evolution, speaker characteristics, machine learning, computational phonetics, pitch accent systems, language acquisition, language technology
Associate Professor of Phonetics
Fellow of Selwyn College
Areas of Interest: 
Speaker characteristics, forensic phonetics, phonetic realisation of varieties of English
Emeritus Professor of Phonetics
Areas of Interest: 
Theoretical, auditory, and experimental phonetics; prosody; speaker characteristics; forensic phonetics; connected speech processes.
Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
Co-Director of the Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Centre
Fellow of Jesus College
Areas of Interest: 
Experimental phonetics and phonology, prosody, first and second language acquisition, cognitive and neural processing of speech
Professor of Phonology and Morphology
Areas of Interest: 
Phonology, dialectology, historical linguistics, Armenian, Abkhaz, Indo-European, Turkic, and Mongolic languages

Staff , Research Students

Research Assistant
PhD Student
01223 760389
Areas of Interest: 
Voice distinctiveness, voice quality, accent judgements and prejudice, forensic phonetics, voice parade procedures, sociophonetic variation, speech disfluencies

Research Students

PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Auditory processing, Neural mechanism of temporally-selective attention in speech perception, Individual differences in second language (L2) speech learning, Cognitive processes underlying L2 performance and development, Implicit learning
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Psycholinguistics, speech perception, accent comprehension, perceptual learning
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Mongolic languages, vowel harmony, prosody, language change and variation
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Forensic speech science
Voice similarity
Automatic speaker recognition
Speech technology
Speaker characteristics
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Computational phonetics, speech synthesis, expressive prosody, intonation and prosody modeling
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Voice quality theory, whole vocal tract articulation, forensic speech science, sociophonetic variation
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Intonation, prosody-pragmatics interface, prosodic typology, Chinese languages
Areas of Interest: 
tonal phonology, tone sandhi, implicit learning, connectionist modelling
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Forensic Speech Science, Sociophonetics, Female voices
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Speech perception, L2 phonetic acquisition, psycholinguistics, language variation and change, Spanish
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Tone sandhi, tonal phonology, phonology-syntax interface, Chinese dialects
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Sociolinguistics, phonology, historical linguistics, NLP, brain and cognitive sciences
PhD Student
Areas of Interest: 
Acoustic Phonetics, Speech Perception, Contrast Neutralisation, Phonetics-Phonology Interface

Staff , Research Students

Research Assistant
PhD Student
01223 760389
Areas of Interest: 
Voice distinctiveness, voice quality, accent judgements and prejudice, forensic phonetics, voice parade procedures, sociophonetic variation, speech disfluencies

Affiliated Members

Affiliated Member
Areas of Interest: 
Phonetics/phonology interface, sociolinguistics, vowel mergers and instrumental/quantitative approaches to sound change
Affiliated Member
Areas of Interest: 
Morphological and phonological processing, cognitive linguistics, language acquisition