Conferences
Attended Larynx '97 in Marseille in June

Presented papers at 2nd European Symposium on ELG and EPG in Edinburgh

Conference Posters:
Poster abstract no. 908 Rosen, S., Baker, R.J. and Darling, A.M. 'Auditory filtering across level and frequency in human listeners: an efficient characterization that is physiological reasonable' Feb. '97 - Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 20th Midwinter Research Meeting, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida

Baker, R.J., Darling, A.M. and Rosen, S. 'Minimising boredome by maximising likelihood - effecient estimation of masked thresholds' Sept. '96 - British Society of Audiology, Experimental Short Papers Meeting, Nottingham.

October '97: Promoted to Senior Lecturer

Grant
Senior Fellowship (1997-1998) at Collegium Budapest, An Institute of Advanced Study

Honours
"Doctor of the Academy", Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Colloquiums/workshops

• International Conference on Pied Piping, University of Jena
• VIIIth Vienna round table, University of Vienna
• IIIrd Conference on Modern Hungarian Linguistics, JATE University, Szeged

• University of Tubingen
• University of Vienna
• University of Budapest

• University of Stuttgart

Conferences
April 1997, LAGB Edinburgh Presented paper: "Pragmatic processes of enrichment and loosening of indexically encoded meaning"

July 1997, XVIth Congres International des Linguistes, Paris.

• Member of panel "Formal linguistics and the explanation of language function".
• Presented paper: "The relationship between generative grammar and (relevance-theoretic) pragmatics"

Posters / Presentations
M Downing, U Johansson, L Carlsson, J Walliker, J Daley, A Faulkner A Bone-Anchored Percutaneous Connector System for Use in Cochlear Implantation. Presented at the 28th Neural Prosthesis Workshop, NIH, Bethesda, USA, 15-17 Oct.1997.

M Downing, U Johansson, L Carlsson, J R Walliker, P D R Spraggs, H Dodson, I J Hochmair-Desoyer, T Albrektsson A Bone-Anchored Percutaneous Connector System for Use in Cochlear Implantation. Presented at the British Society of Audiology Short Papers Meeting on Experimental Studies of Hearing and Deafness, Nottingham, UK, 21-23 Sept. 1997.

M Downing, U Johansson, L Carlsson, J R Walliker, P D R Spraggs, H Dodson, I J Hochmair-Desoyer, T Albrektsson A Bone-Anchored Percutaneous Connector System for Use in Cochlear Implantation. Presented at the 1997 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Asilomar Conference Center, California, USA, 17-21 Aug. 1997.

M Downing, J Walliker, J Daley, S Rosen, A Faulkner, L Carlsson, U Johansson, I J Hochmair-Desoyer A Cochlear Implant System Based on a Bone-Anchored Percutaneous Connector and a Digital Speech Processor. Presented at the British Cochlear Implant Group Meeting, Nottingham, UK, 11 Apr. 1997.

Broadcast
Interview for BBC World Service Science broadcast on pitch processing hearing aids for Chinese.

Conferences
Attended Larynx '97 in Marseille in June

Presented papers at 2nd European Symposium on ELG and EPG in Edinburgh

Invited expert at the international Francophonie meeting in Avignon in April

Linguistics Association of GB (LAGB)
4/97 conference: Edinburgh University

• presented paper
• Elected President

• presented paper

Other
Convenor of a two-day meeting on Word Grammar, UCL.

Radio 3: Nightwaves. Took part in a discussion on the teaching of Standard English.

Invited to present a course at the 1998 Australian Linguistics Institute, plus a keynote talk to the Australian Linguistics Society (declined)

University of Cambridge Local Examining Syndicate Invited to join the consultative committee on the materials for testing English at Key Stage 3.

Consultant on the committee for appointing the chair of linguistics at UCNW, Bangor.

Invited talks at: University of Middlesex, Institute of Education

Invited Lectures and other participation:
February: Gave the Graham Fraser Memorial Lecture, entitled "Hearing and speech and cochlear implants: the benefits of combining clinical and basic research", at the Royal Society of Medicine, sponsored by the Section of Otology, and the Graham Fraser Foundation.

February: "Time and place in hearing for speech" Invited paper presented at the Twentieth Midwinter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, for a symposium on the central auditory processing of speech.

July: "Cochlear Implants" A talk given to the Audio Engineering Society

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

September: Invited to chair the Cochlear Implant Manufacturer’s Forum at the British Cochlear Implant Group Conference.

Media:
26 July 1997: "Chinese Whispers", article in New Scientist featuring the group’s work in applying a speech-pattern hearing aid in China.

July: Interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for a feature about our work concerning speech-pattern hearing aids in China.

Has been closely involved 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 arrays, with a view for its use by the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics for research. Is presently investigating its potential for studying tonotopic and periodotopic mappings in the human auditory cortex.

Conference attended
3rd European Congress of Psychopyhsiology, Konstanz, Germany.

Radio

• 18 March 1997 interviewed on BBC GLR Radio, 08:22-08:27 (London accent, Estuary English)
• 20 March 1997 interviewed by Ronny Barber on BBC Three Counties Radio, 15:15-15:20 (accents, dialects)
• 23 March 1997 participated in radio chat show chaired by Patty Caldwell, BBC R5Live, midnight-02:00
• 8 April 1997 interviewed by Russell Davies on BBC R4, Word of Mouth, 12:30-12:55 (pronunciation trends)
• 29 April 1997 interviewed by John Dunn on BBC R2, The John Dunn Show, 18:05-18:11 (generational changes in pronunciation)
• 9 May 1997 interviewed by Chris Dunkley on BBC R4, Feedback (comments on listeners' views on pronunciation)
• 4 August 1997 interviewed by Alan Robb on BBC R5, Midday with Mair, 13:55-14:00 (the h-sound)

• 10 May 1997 University of Poznan, Poland
• 11 May 1997 University of Lódz, Poland
• 12 May 1997 University of Warsaw, Poland
• 22 July 1997 University of Adelaide, Australia
• 27 October 1997 Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• 28 October 1997 National Taipei Normal University, Taiwan
• 3 November 1997 Seoul National University, Korea
• 4 November 1997 Songgyugwan University, Korea
• 27-28 November 1997 Kiev State Pedagogical University, Ukraine