Bronwen G. Evans

Status: MSc, PhD, Lecturer
Address: Room 321, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London
Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4089
Email: bronwen.evans@ucl.ac.uk
Home page: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/bron/bronindex.html
Primary Dept.: Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Secondary Dept.: Linguistics
RAE Research group: Phonetics
Interests: Experimental Phonetics.

Taught Courses

Selected Publications

    2012

    • Iverson, P., Pinet, M., Evans, B. G. (2012). Auditory training for experienced and inexperienced second-language learners: Native French speakers learning English vowels. APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 33(1), 145-160 doi:10.1017/S0142716411000300. Author URL

    2011

    • Iverson, P., Pinet, M., Evans, B. G. (2011). Auditory training for experienced and inexperienced second-language learners: Native French speakers learning English vowels. Applied Psycholinguistics Publisher URL
    • Pinet, M., Iverson, P., Evans, P. (2011). Perceptual Adaptation for L1 and L2 Accents in Noise by Monolingual British English Listeners. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ( pp.1602-1605).

    2009

    • Adank, P., Evans, B. G., Stuart-Smith, J., Scott, S. K. (2009). Comprehension of Familiar and Unfamiliar Native Accents Under Adverse Listening Conditions. J EXP PSYCHOL HUMAN 35(2), 520-529 doi:10.1037/a0013552.
    • Iverson, P., Evans, B. G. (2009). Learning English vowels with different first-language vowel systems II: Auditory training for native Spanish and German speakers. J Acoust Soc Am 126(2), 866-877 doi:10.1121/1.3148196. Author URL
    • Iverson, P., Evans, B. G. (2009). Learning English vowels with different first-language vowel systems II: Auditory training for native Spanish and German speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(5), 2842-2854

    2008

    • Iverson, P., Ekanayake, D., Hamann, S., Sennema, A., Evans, B. G. (2008). Category and perceptual interference in second-language phoneme learning: An examination of English vertical bar w vertical bar-vertical bar v vertical bar learning by Sinhala, German, and Dutch speakers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 34(5), 1305-1316 Author URL

    2007

    • Evans, B. G., Iverson, P. (2007). Plasticity in vowel perception and production: A study of accent change in young adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121(6), 3814-3826 doi:10.1121/1.2722209. Author URL
    • Iverson, P., Evans, B. G. (2007). Auditory training of English vowels for first-language speakers of Spanish and German. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ( pp.1625-1628). Saarbrücken, Germany Author URL
    • Iverson, P., Evans, B. G. (2007). Learning English vowels with different first-language vowel systems: Perception of formant targets, formant movement, and duration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(5), 2842-2854 doi:10.1121/1.2783198. Author URL

    2006

    • Iverson, P., Smith, C. A., Evans, B. G. (2006). Vowel-recognition via cochlear implants and noise vocoders: Effects of formant movement and duration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120(6), 3998-4006 doi:10.1121/1.2372453. Author URL

    2004

    • Evans, B. G., Iverson, P. (2004). Vowel normalization for accent: An investigation of best exemplar locations in northern and southern British English sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115(1), 352-361 doi:10.1121/1.1635413. Author URL

    2003

    • Evans, B. G., Iverson, P. (2003). Vowel normalization for accent: a comparison of northern and southern British English speakers. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona Author URL
    • Iverson, P., Evans, B. G. (2003). A goodness optimization method for investigating phonetic categorization. Proceedings of the the 15th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona Author URL

    2002

    • Evans, B. G., Iverson, P. (2002). Vowel normalisation for dialect. Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech. ( pp.35-35). Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.
    • Evans, B. G., Iverson, P. (2002). Vowel normalisation for dialect. In Hawkins, S., Nguyen, N. (Eds.). Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech ( pp.35-). Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

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