Jill House

Status:	BA, Teaching Fellow
Address:	Room 302, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF
Phone:	+ 44 (0) 20 7679 4231
Email:	j.house@phon.ucl.ac.uk
Home page:	http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/jill/home.htm
Primary Dept.:	Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Interests:	Phonology and phonetics of prosody (stress, intonation); discourse prosody; intonation and pragmatic interpretation; modelling prosody for text-to-speech synthesis; phonetics of present-day English and French.

Research Projects

• ProSynth: An integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis (1997-2001)
  This collaborative project between Linguistics departments in Cambridge, London and York aimed to construct a model of computational phonology that integrates and extends modern metrical approaches to phonetic interpretation and to apply this model to the generation of high-quality speech synthesis. The three focal areas of research were intonation, morphological structure and systematic segmental variation. Integrating these is a temporal model that provides a linguistic structure or 'data object' upon which phonetic interpretation is executed and which delivers control information for synthesis.
• SIPhTra: System for Interactive Phonetics Training & Assessment (1997-2000)
  An innovative method known as "Analytic Listening" (AL) has been developed at UCL as a tool for auditory training in phonetics. Its analytic approach formalises and sets a standard for good practice in this area. It is a flexible tool which can be adapted to class teaching or self-paced study, and which enables well-defined objective assessment of student attainment. Popular with users, it builds student confidence in an area often considered difficult. A major advance is now in progress as a result of the structured combination of AL with multimedia techniques which will support the incorporation of phonetic symbols and graphical displays.

Taught Courses

• SPSC1003 Phonetic Science: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
• SPSC1002 Practical Phonetics
• HCSCGS14 Phonetics and Phonology

Selected Publications

2007

• House, J. (2007). The role of prosody in constraining context selection: a procedural approach. Cahiers de Linguistique Francaise 28: Interfaces discours-prosodie 2(28), 369-383 Author URL

2006

• House, J. (2006). Constructing a context with intonation. Journal of Pragmatics 38(10), 1542-1558

2003

• House, J., Shobbrook, K. (2003). High Rising Tones in Southern British English. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. IBSN 1-876346-48-5. ( pp.1273-1276). Barcelona Causal Productions.
• House, J., Sityaev, D. (2003). Phonetic and Phonological Correlates of Broad, Narrow and Contrastive Focus in English. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ISBN 1-876346-48-5. ( pp.1819-1822). Barcelona Causal Productions.

2000

• House, J., Dankovicova, J., Huckvale, M. (2000). Intonation modelling in ProSynth. Phonetics and Linguistics.
• Ogden, R., Hawkins, S., House, J., Huckvale, M., Local, J., Carter, P., Dankovicova, J., Heid, S. (2000). ProSynth: an integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis. Computer Language and Science 14, 177-210

1999

• House, J., Dankovicova, J., Huckvale, M. (Eds.) (1999). Intonation modelling in ProSynth. Speech, Hearing and Language: work in progress 11, 51-61
• House, J., Dankovicova, J., Huckvale, M. (1999). Intonation modelling in ProSynth: An integrated approach to speech synthesis. ICPhS. ( pp.2343-2346). San Francisco
• House, J., Dankovicova, J., Huckvale, M. (1999). Intonation modelling in ProSynth: an integrated prosodic approach to speech synthesis. Proceedings of the ICPhS. ( Vol. 3 pp.2343-2346).
• Wichman, A., House, J., Rietveld, T. (1999). . Discourse constraints on peak timing in English: experimental evidence. ( Vol. 3 pp.1765-1768).

1998

• Fang, A. C., House, J., Huckvale, M. (1998). Investigating the syntactic characteristics of English tone units. Proceedings of the ICSLP.
• Hawkins, S., House, J., Huckvale, M., Local, J., Ogden, R. (1998). ProSynth: an integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis. Proceedings of the ICSLP.

Current PhD Students

• Barbara Loveridge

Completed PhD Students

• Helmut Kilian
  A preliminary study of features of connected speech in contemporary colloquial English, as exemplified by students of the University of London (MPhil) (1997)
• Martine Grice
  The Intonation of Interrogation in Palermo Italian; Implications for Intonation Theory (1992)

(Possibly incomplete list)