Members
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Kathleen McCarthy
Lab DirectorEarly phonological acquisition, speech perception and production, early reading acquisition, bilingualism, acoustic-phonetics
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Rémi Lamarque
Lab Manager![](https://languageacquisitionlab.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/adam-1.jpg)
Adam Chong
Phonological acquisition and processing, prosody and intonational phonology, speech perception
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Sophie Holmes-Elliott
Developmental sociolinguistics, acquisition of variation, incrementation of language change, gendered language development, sociophonetics
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Devyani Sharma
Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, English dialects, language change, accent variation
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Gwen Brekelmans
QMUL Psychology![](https://languageacquisitionlab.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/jenny.jpg)
Jenny Cheshire
Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change, Language Contact, Conversational Narrative, Spoken Language: Syntactic and Discourse Struct
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Thomas Packer-Stucki
PhD Student![](https://languageacquisitionlab.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Madlen-500x500.jpg)
Madlen Jones
PhD Student![](https://languageacquisitionlab.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sergio-500x500.jpg)
Sergio Rojo
PhD Student at the university of LundAccent perception development in childhood, development of social stereotypes
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Denise Amankwah
Research Assistant and PhD student at Essex UniversityChild language development, multilingualism in schools, heritage language maintenance, language hierarchy, colonial language ideologies
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Tasfia Chowdhury
Research AssistantMultilingualism, education and teaching
Collaborators
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Sam Kirkham
Acoustic and articulatory phonetics, sociophonetics, bilingualism, vocal tract imaging
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Katrin Skoruppa
Language learning, language disorders, phonological acquisition, hearing impairment, multilingualism
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Paul Iverson
Plasticity for speech perception, accent processing, language learning, music perception
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Linnaea Stockall
Morpho-syntax, morpho-semantics
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Laura Dawson
Specialist Speech & Language TherapistSLT Consultancy
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Nurull Islam
Mile End Community Project
Partners
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Tower Hamlets Education Partnership
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Mile End Community Project
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SLT Consultancy
Alumni
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Shivonne Gates
Adolescent language and standard language ideology, language and ethnicity in the UK, stylistic variation and sociophonetics
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Beth Gibbs
UG Project Student![Keren Rubner](https://languageacquisitionlab.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/plugins/awsm-team/images/default-user.png)
Keren Rubner
MSc Project Student![](https://languageacquisitionlab.qmul.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/rosie.jpg)
Rosie Oxbury
PhD StudentSociophonetics, language variation and change, speech production, bilingualism, dialect acquisition, vowels & diphthongs
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Jamie Roberts
MSc SLT Project Student (UCL)Phonetics, phonology, developmental disorders of language