Members

Kathleen McCarthy
Lab DirectorEarly phonological acquisition, first and second language acquisition, speech perception and production, bilingualism, acoustic-phonetics

Adam Chong
Phonological acquisition and processing, prosody and intonational phonology, speech perception

Esther de Leeuw
Multilingualism, bilingualism, L1 attrition, L2 acquisition, phonetics, phonology

Jenny Cheshire
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change, Language Contact, Conversational Narrative, Spoken Language: Syntactic and Discourse Struct

Hazel Pearson
Formal semantics and pragmatics, cross-linguistic semantics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics

Rosie Oxbury
PhD StudentSociophonetics, language variation and change, speech production, bilingualism, dialect acquisition, vowels & diphthongs

Cereza Palmer
Research Assistant
Jamie Roberts
UG Project StudentPhonetics, phonology, developmental disorders of language
Collaborators

Sam Kirkham
Acoustic and articulatory phonetics, sociophonetics, bilingualism, vocal tract imaging

Katrin Skoruppa
Language learning, language disorders, phonological acquisition, hearing impairment, multilingualism

Paul Iverson
Plasticity for speech perception, accent processing, language learning, music perception

Bronwen Evans
Sociophonetics, experimental phonetics, speech perception, second language learning, development of phonetic perception

Phaedra Royle
Linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, dysphasia, neurolinguistics

Linnaea Stockall
Morpho-syntax, morpho-semantics

Devyani Sharma
Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, English dialects, language change, accent variation
Alumni

Grace White
Sociolinguistics, language contact, language and identity, and sociophonetics.

Shivonne Gates
Adolescent language and standard language ideology, language and ethnicity in the UK, stylistic variation and sociophonetics