Members
Dr Kathleen McCarthy
Lab DirectorEarly phonological acquisition, first and second language acquisition, speech perception and production, bilingualism, acoustic-phonetics
Dr Adib Mehrabi
Lab ManagerVocal imitation and analysis, query by vocalisation, audio signal processing, machine learning, statistical modelling
Dr Adam Chong
Phonological acquisition and processing, prosody and intonational phonology, speech perception
Dr Esther de Leeuw
Multilingualism, bilingualism, L1 attrition, L2 acquisition, phonetics, phonology
Prof Jenny Cheshire
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change, Language Contact, Conversational Narrative, Spoken Language: Syntactic and Discourse Struct
Dr Hazel Pearson
Formal semantics and pragmatics, cross-linguistic semantics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics
Rosie Oxbury
Sociophonetics, language variation and change, speech production, bilingualism, dialect acquisition, vowels & diphthongs
Collaborators
Dr Sam Kirkham
Acoustic and articulatory phonetics, sociophonetics, bilingualism, vocal tract imaging
Prof Katrin Skoruppa
Language learning, language disorders, phonological acquisition, hearing impairment, multilingualism
Prof Paul Iverson
Plasticity for speech perception, accent processing, language learning, music perception
Dr Bronwen Evans
Sociophonetics, experimental phonetics, speech perception, second language learning, development of phonetic perception
Prof Phaedra Royle
Linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, dysphasia, neurolinguistics
Dr Linnaea Stockall
Morpho-syntax, morpho-semantics
Prof Devyani Sharma
Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, English dialects, language change, accent variation
Alumni
Grace White
Sociolinguistics, language contact, language and identity, and sociophonetics.
Dr Shivonne Gates
Adolescent language and standard language ideology, language and ethnicity in the UK, stylistic variation and sociophonetics