Honours:
Elected Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Miscellaneous:
HEFCE subject specialist assessor for Linguistics for the Assessment of the Quality of Teaching/Learning

Worked as a member of the Academic Board of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)

Papers presented:
James, A., Baker, R.J. and Rosen, S. 'PTCs in background noise - an accurate measurement of auditory filter shape?' Sept. '96 - British Society of Audiology, Experimental Short Papers Meeting, Cambridge.

Invited talks:
Jan. 96 - Department of Communication and Neuroscience, University of Keele.

Conferences:
Invited panel member and final discussant at international conference, Making New Connections, June 1996, the Hayes Centre, Shropshire, U.K. (A book chapter based on this paper is in Chiat, S., Law, J. and Marshall, J. (eds) Psycholinguistic Approaches to therapy with children and adults London, Whurr 1997)

Presentations at:
International Focus Conference, Paris

Mini-course at the SICOGG conference, Seoul

Invited lecture series:

• University of Vienna
• University of Budapest

• University of Paris (Nanterre)
• University of Stuttgart
• University of Tubingen

Papers Presented:
'Pragmatic processes of "completion", "enrichment" and "loosening" and the role of "relevance".' American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Spring Symposium on 'Computational Implicature', Stanford University, California, March 25-27, 1996

'The proposition expressed by an utterance.' 5th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Mexico City, July 4-9, 1996. Also: Discussant on the panel: 'The grammar-pragmatics interface'. Coordinator of the panel: 'Relevance theory: some basic distinctions.'

'Saying and communicating.' European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Annual Meeting, Barcelona, July 18-21, 1996. Also: Convenor of the symposium: 'Semantics and pragmatics; saying and communicating.'

Papers Presented:
M Downing, U Johansson, L Carlsson, JR Walliker, PDR Spraggs, H Dodson, IJ Hochmair-Desoyer, T Albrektsson, LL Hench. 'Bone-Anchored Multichannel Percutaneous Connector Systems.' Presented at the 27th Neural Prosthesis Workshop, NIH, Bethesda, USA, 16-18 Oct. 1996.

M Downing. 'Bone-Anchored Percutaneous Connector Systems for Neural Prosthesis Applications.' Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Medical and Biological Implant Technology, Nottingham, UK, 2-5 Sept. 1996.

M Downing. 'Bone-Anchored Percutaneous Connector Systems for Neural Prosthesis Applications.' Presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Electronic Implants in Otology and Conventional Hearing Aids, Gothenburg, Sweden, 3-5 June 1996.

Papers Presented:
Faulkner, A. 'The TIDE project OSCAR'. Presented at the International Conference on Sensory Aids, Sint-Michielsgestel, the Netherlands.

Faulkner A and Rosen S. 'Contributions of temporally-coded acoustic information to audio-visual speech perception'. Language from the Face Workshop, Department of Psychology, University of Bristol Meeting sponsored by ESRC.

Posters:
Faulkner, A., and Rosen, S. 'The contribution of temporally-coded acoustic speech patterns to audio-visual speech perception in normally hearing and profoundly hearing-impaired listeners'. Presented as a poster at ESCA Workshop "The Auditory Basis of Speech Perception", Keele, July 1996. Dr Faulkner was also coordinator and chair of the session on Speech Perception and Hearing Impairment

Demonstrations:
A demonstration of the EURAUD ASTEC multimedia system for the clinical assessment of audio-visual speech perception was given at the British Cochlear Implant Group Meeting, March 1996. Cardiff.

Academic visits:
Invited seminar speaker to Department of Communication and Neuroscience, University of Keele. November 1996.

EU TIDE project OSCAR -As project director for the consortium, Dr Faulkner has led six working meetings in the UK, Netherlands, Denmark and Brussels during 1996

EU TIDE project DICTUM - As leader of UCL's contribution to the project, Dr Faulkner has attended two working academic meetings in 1996, in the Netherlands and Brussels.

Miscellaneous:
Organised (with Jialu Zhang) the Sino-British Joint Workshop on Cochlear Implants and Speech Signal Processing Aids, Beijing 1996 (Proceedings of which formed final report to the British Council for the Academic Links with China Scheme Project award to UCL/AJF)

Invited to participate as an expert on a French body called AUPELF which is a French national body awarding and monitoring research grants for projects all over the French speaking world concerning the French language.

Papers presented:
'Source contrasts.' at Fourth Phonology Workshop, Northwest Centre for Romance Linguistics, Universities of Manchester and Salford, England, May 1996

'English syllable structure: codas, constraints and coda constraints.' The phonology of the world's languages: the syllable (Oxford University Press/Ville de Pézenas/University of Salford), Pézenas, France, June 1996

'Syllabic universals and phonological disorder.' Invited plenary paper at 8th International Phonology Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Nov 1996

Lectures:
'Phonological universals and phonological disorder.' given to The Philological Society, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Feb 1996

'Phonological derivation and phonetic interpretation.' given at the Centre for Research in Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Feb 1996

Lecture series on phonology, University of Oslo, Norway, March 1996

Lecture series on phonology, University of Bergen, Norway, March 1996

Radio:
BBC Greater London Radio, The Olga Buckley Show, Nov 1996

Papers Presented:
Harrison, P. 'Asymmetry in the acquisition of phonological primes.' Presented at the GLOW Colloquium, University of Athens, April 1996

Harrison, P. 'The acquisition of melodic primes in infancy.' Presented at the Fourth Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, May 1996

Papers Presented:
Presented two papers at the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP96) in Philadelphia, in October 1996. These were:

Hazan, V. and Simpson, A. 'Enhancing information-rich regions of natural vcv and sentence materials presented in noise.'

Hazan, V. and Adlard, A. 'Speech perceptual difficulties of children with specific reading difficulty (dyslexia).'

Lectures:
Invited lecture entitled 'Speech pattern audiometry' at the Institute for Hearing Research in Nottingham, October 1996.

Papers Presented:
4/96 at Conference of the Linguistics Assn of Great Britain (LAGB), University of Sussex

5/96 at Workshop on History of English syntax, University of Manchester

6/96 at International conference on categories in syntax University College of Wales, Bangor

6/96 at International workshop on future developments in linguistic theory Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, Holland

9/96 at International Sociolinguistics Symposium University College of Wales, Cardiff

9/96 at Conference of LAGB, Cardiff Institute

Papers presented:
James, A., Baker, R.J. and Rosen, S. 'PTCs in background noise - an accurate measurement of auditory filter shape?' Sept. '96 - British Society of Audiology, Experimental Short Papers Meeting, Cambridge.

Faulkner A and Rosen S. 'Contributions of temporally-coded acoustic information to audio-visual speech perception'. Language from the Face Workshop, Department of Psychology, University of Bristol Meeting sponsoredby ESRC.

Posters:
Poster abstract no. 552 Rosen, S. , Baker, R.J. and Darling, A.M. 'Level-dependence of auditory filtering at 2kHz in normal and hearing-impaired listeners' Feb. '96 - Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 19th Midwinter Research Meeting, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida

Other talks:
January 1996: 'Auditory filtering across level in normal & hearing-impaired listeners' Talk presented to the Cochlear Emissions Research Group of the Institute for Laryngoloy and Otology.

September 1996: Chaired a session at the British Society of Audiology Short Papers Meeting on Experimental Studies of Hearing and Deafness

September 1996: Speaker and leader of UK delegation at Sino-British Joint Workshop on Cochlear Implants and Speech Signal Processing Aids, Beijing 1996.

Is involved in activities to make electrical and optical brain imaging available as a tool for research into speech and hearing for the department. Has links with Dept of Physiology UCL, Department of Medical Physics UCL and the Great Ormond Street Hospital. Has been working with the Medical Research Council Cognitive Development Unit in developing their ERP (Event Related Potential) electrical brain imaging system using state of the art high density electrode arrays, with a view for its use by the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics for research.

Activities in 1996 associated with this have been:-

Conferences attended:
Second International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Boston, USA

Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford, UK

Posters:
Smits, R. 'Context-dependent relevance of burst and transitions for perceived place in stops: it's in production, not perception' at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, USA.

Visits:
In February Roel hosted a visit by Dr. Allard Jongman of the Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell university, Ithaca, New York, USA. Dr. Jongman gave a talk entitled 'Acoustic-phonetic variability and perceptual invariance'.

External Academic Activities:
Participated in EU TIDE project OSCAR meetings in Denmark, Netherlands and UK.

Participated in Sino-British Joint Workshop on Cochlear Implants and Speech Signal Processing Aids, Beijing 1996. Presented paper on UCL work in Speech Signal Processing Hearing Aids and Bioglass and Titanium based cochlear implants.

Contributed to the Department of Health Medical Devices Agency Device Bulletin Electromagnetic Compatibility of Medical Devices with Mobile Communications.

Acted as independent expert project assessor to the EU TIDE programme HEARDIP.

Teaching:
Taught and examined a 6 hour submodule in Computer Hardware in each of the following degrees:

• UMDS Intercalated BSc in Radiological Sciences
  (Module: Computers in Medicine)
• City University / UMDS MSc in Medical Informatics
  (Module: Introduction to Computing Systems)

Papers presented:
Downing,M., Johansson,U., Carlsson,L., Walliker,J.R., Spraggs,P.D.R., Dodson,H., Hochmair-Desoyer,I.J., Albrektsson,T., Hench,L.L. 'Bone-Anchored Multichannel Percutaneous Connector Systems.' Presented by M. Downing at the 27th Neural Prosthesis Workshop, NIH, Bethesda, USA, 16-18 Oct. 1996.

Honours:
4 July 1996 elected Fellow of the British Academy

Lectures:
'Whatever happened to RP?'. Invited lecture, University of Tarragona, Spain, 24 April 1996 (XIV Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada).

Also delivered at the University of Helsinki, Finland, 25 September 1996, at the University of Jaén, Spain, 13 November 1996, and at the University of Granada, Spain, 15 November 1996.

'Esperanto - a joke, or a serious option?'. Invited lecture, conference on The University in the Tower of Babel, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 3 July 1996.

'Kromsignoj' (Diacritics). Lecture (delivered in Esperanto) in the International Congress University series, World Esperanto Congress, Prague, 25 July 1996.

'Age-grading in English pronunciation preferences'. Helsinki Modern Language

Society, U. of Helsinki, 26 September 1996.

'Messing about with the spelling: ways of showing nonstandard pronunciation'. Invited lecture, University of Helsinki conference on Writing in Nonstandard English, Hanasaari, Finland, 27-29 September 1996.

'Why phonetic transcription is important'. Invited keynote plenary lecture, 1st Seoul International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea, 24 October 1996.

Radio:
30 Jan 1996 The Reith Interview. Prof. Jean Aitchison, this year's Reith Lecturer, is interviewed about linguistics by John Wells. BBC R4

20 Feb 1996 Interviewed by Russell Davies, Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4, (words for drunkenness; phonetic characteristics of drunken speech). Repeated 14 May 1996.

19 March 1996 Interviewed by James Haight-Reeve, Greater Manchester Radio, (Pronunciation, accents)

7 May 1996 Interviewed on John Dunn Show, BBC R2, (Esperanto)

21 November 1996 Interviewed on The Afternoon Shift, BBC R4,

3 December 1996 Interviewed on John Dunn Show, BBC R2, (gender; speech rate)

12 December 1996 Interviewed by Brian Hayes, The Magazine, BBC R5 (prison vocabulary)

Television:
23 March 1996 main participant in The English Accent. The Open University, BBC2 TV.

Advisory:
Participated as advisor (especially on phonetic transcription of Bulgarian, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian) at BABEL project meeting, Lublin, Poland, 4-6 September 1996.

Miscellaneous:
HEFCE Subject Assessor for Linguistics:

• Durham 15-18 January 1996
• York 29 January - 1 February 1996

Director, UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics, 29 July - 9 August 1996.