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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
Photo of Marju Kaps
Research Laboratory Manager
Areas of Interest: 
Psycholinguistics
Sentence processing
Syntax
Prosody
Research methods
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: 
Forensic phonetics, sociophonetics, voice distinctiveness, voice quality, 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: 
Forensic phonetics, sociophonetics, voice distinctiveness, voice quality, 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