Past Events
After completing my PhD Tonal and Phrasal Structures in French Intonation under the supervision of Carlos Gussenhoven and Haike Jacobs in Nijmegen in 2000, I took up my first post-doc position with Francis Nolan and Esther Grabe on the project Intonational Variation in the British Isles (also known as IViE) here in the Phonetics Lab. A second post-doc in Lorraine Tyler's Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain gave me the opportunity to venture into psycholinguistics and neuroimaging. Several short-term teaching and research positions preceded my appointment as Senior Research Associate at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics. This post was converted to a University Lectureship when the Centre was merged with the Department of Linguistics in 2011.
Past Phonetics&Phonology seminars
2021 Lent programme
26 Jan | Dr Constantijn Kaland, Cologne | Contour clustering: a tool for exploring prototypical f0 patterns |
| 16 Feb | Yibing Shi | Tone sandhi in (Ningbo & Xiangshan) Chinese Wu |
| 23 Feb | Dr Scott Sadowsky, PUC Chile | Mergers in Chilean Spanish: the end of the phoneme as we know it? |
| 2 Mar | Dr Kai Alter, Newcastle | The sense of sounds: Brain responses to phonotactic frequency, phonological grammar and lexical meaning |
| 9 Mar | Dr Adam Chong (QMUL) | Aspects of Singapore English intonation |
| 16 Mar | Yixin Zhang | Representations of Mandarin Neutral Tones |
23 Mar | Alice Paver | Regional Variation and Multiethnolects in British Pakistani men |
2020 Michaelmas programme
20 Oct | Madeleine Rees | Speech perception & production integration in bilinguals: primary findings |
3 Nov | Chenming Gao | Word prosody and focus in Khorchin Mongolian and Buryat |
10 Nov | Tim Laméris | L2 perception and acquisition of tone : preliminary findings of an online study |
| 17 Nov | No seminar | Language sciences symposium |
| 24 Nov | Katrina(Kechun) Li | Perception of Cantonese focus |
2020 Summer programme
18 Aug | Jasper Sim | Investigating variation in tonal scaling and alignment in young bilingual children |
25 Aug | Meg Zellers (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) | Integrating multiple communicative systems in conversation: prosody, gesture, and turn-taking in German and Swedish |
1 Sept | Maria Dokovova (Queen Margaret University) | Bulgarian vowel reduction in unstressed position: an ultrasound and acoustic investigation |
22 Sept | John Coleman (University of Oxford) | Workshop: Methods for Large-Scale Data Analysis |
2020 Easter programme
28 Apr | Adrian Simpson (Uni Jena) and Melanie Weirich (ZAS Berlin) | The spectral structure of sibilance and the perception of gender |
5 May | Yinxing Yue (Harbin Institute of Technology) | Pre-attentive speech perception indexed by neural suppression of auditory evoked potentials |
13 May (Wed!) | Ian Cross (Fac. of Music) | Sociability: music as communication |
19 May | Kirsty McDougall | Introducing the IVIP project: Improving Voice Identification Procedures |
2 June | Julia Schwarz | Influences of varying form overlap and syllable boundaries on accessing suffixed words in the mental lexicon |
9 June | Deepthi Gopal | Is phonological similarity phonetic similarity? |
16 June | Tim Laméris | Which learner-specific tools facilitate active and passive word recall in a tonal pseudolanguage? |
23 June | Linda Gerlach, Oxford Wave Research | Exploring the relationship between voice similarity estimates by listeners and by an automatic speaker recognition system incorporating phonetic features. |
21 July | Jim Scobbie, Queen Margaret University | Me, You and It: three interlocking perspectives on Phonetics and Phonologies |
28 July | Peggy Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | The acquisition of complex phonological patterns: Xiamen tone sandhi circle |
2020 Lent programme
21 Jan | Bob Ladd | Two problems in the analysis of tone-melody matching in tone language singing – part of the Language and Music Seminar, Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music |
28 Jan | Tim Laméris Jasper Sim | Active word recall in a tonal pseudolanguage Variability in the development of coda stops in bilingual children in Singapore |
4 Feb | Yibing Shi | Disyllabic tone sandhi in Ningbo Wu Chinese. |
11 Feb | Kirsty McDougall, Richard Rhodes, Martin Duckworth, Peter French and Christin Kirchhübel | Application of the ‘TOFFA’ framework to the analysis of disfluencies in forensic phonetic casework. |
18 Feb | Deepthi Gopal | The phonetics and phonology of the Jutland Danish rhotic |
17 March | Calbert Graham (RFB146) | Deep learning in native language identification from L2 speech: advances and challenges in spectrogram image processing. |
24 March | BAAP practice session |
