Evelyn R.M. Abberton,BA, PhD, FRCSLT, Senior LecturerAddress: Room G17 Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 5026 Email: Voice and intonation description and analysis in normal and disordered speech and hearing; interactive displays in the (re-)habilitation of speech and hearing disorders and in foreign language learning; speech perceptual and productive development in deaf children. | |
Michael G. Ashby,MA, Senior LecturerAddress: Room 4, 21 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3161 Email: EFL: treatment of vowels in weak syllables, stress in phrasal verbs and idioms; general phonetic theory (especially the nature of phonetic categorisation by trained observers); English intonation (again from EFL/pedagogical angle). | |
Kerry Bannister,BA, MA, Research AssistantAddress: Room G4, Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 5003 Email: Develop and evaluate new phonetic training methods for second-language learners. | |
Michael Brody,LesL, PhD, Professor of LinguisticsAddress: Room 6, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 2306 Email: Syntactic theory (in the principles and parameters and the minimalist frameworks); the development of elegant syntax in which apart from a near trivial core that specifies possible representations, standard functions of syntax are reassigned to interpretive components. | |
Robyn A. Carston,MA, PhD, Reader in LinguisticsAddress: Basement, 21 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3174 Email: Pragmatics, semantics, cognitive processing, cognitive architecture, philosophy of language, communication and interpretation, theory of mind, figurative meaning, linguistic creativity. | |
Annabel Cormack,BA, MPhil, PhD, Honorary Research FellowEmail: | |
Nicole Dehé,PhD, Honorary Research FellowAddress: Room 8, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 2306 Email: Minimalist syntax; OT syntax; the interface between syntax, focus structure and intonation. | |
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Volker Dellwo,MA, LecturerAddress: Room G4, Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 5003 Email: Speech prosody: the study of speech rhythm and timing on an acoustic and perceptual level as well as the perception of syllable prominences. Forensic phonetics: speaker variability and influences on speaker recognition. |
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Alex Chengyu Fang,Honorary Senior Research FellowEmail: Computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, teaching of English as a foreign language. |
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Andrew Faulkner,BA, DPhil, Principal Research FellowAddress: Room G30, Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 7408 Email: Speech perception in normally-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners, audio-visual speech perception, psychoacoustics of normal and impaired hearing, speech signal processing in hearing aids and cochlear implants, assessment of speech perceptual ability. |
Adrian J. Fourcin,BSc (Eng), PhD, Emeritus Professor of Experimental PhoneticsAddress: Room G32, Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 5011 Email: Speech perception and production; Spoken Language Engineering. | |
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Tim Green,BSc, PhD, Research FellowAddress: Room G.29, Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 5060 Email: Speech processing for cochlear implants; pitch perception in cochlear implant users; auditory attention, especially in relation to frequency selectivity. |
John Harris,MA, PhD, Professor of LinguisticsAddress: Room 13, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3159 Email: Phonological theory; phonetics-phonology interface; phonological disorder; variation and change in English. | |
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Valerie Hazan,BSc, MA, PhD, Reader in Speech Sciences and Head of DepartmentAddress: Room 7, 21 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 7069 Email: Development of phoneme categorisation in normally-hearing and hearing-impaired children and in second-language learners; effects of listener- and speaker-related factors on speech intelligibility; effects of auditory and auditory-visual training for second-language learners. |
Jill E. House,BA, Senior LecturerAddress: Room 12, 21 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3167 Email: 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. | |
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Mark A. Huckvale,BSc, PhD, Senior LecturerAddress: Room G3, Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 5002 Email: Speech and language technology as a means to model human language processing and to build a conversational interface to computers. |
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Richard (Dick) A. Hudson,PhD, FBA, Professor of LinguisticsAddress: Room 2, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3152 Email: His main area of research is Word Grammar, which embraces all of language (syntax, morphology, semantics and maybe even phonology) and integrates it with general cognition. It has implications for theories of social variation, the psychology of language processing, acquisition (i.e. learning) and even language teaching. He is interested in developing all these areas of theory, but even more interested in applying the theory to description. He also has a strong non-research interest in disseminating linguistics through the schools. |
Corinne Iten,PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in PragmaticsAddress: Room 16, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3164 Email: Pragmatics, Semantics, Philosophy of Language. Focus on non-truth-conditional linguistic meaning; in particular "concessives" ('but', 'although', 'even' and 'even if'). | |
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Paul Iverson,PhD, LecturerAddress: Room G2, Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 7419 Email: Plasticity for speech perception, particularly as related to changes in phonetic categorization and sensitivity during infancy, second-language learning, and the use of cochlear implants; audiovisual speech perception; music perception, especially timbre; auditory scene analysis. |
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Hans van de Koot,PhD, Senior LecturerAddress: Room 7, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3165 Email: Syntactic theory, especially the development of a syntactic theory that explains the core properties of grammatical dependencies; the relation of this theory to syntax-external systems; the computational complexity of language recognition problems. |
Yves M. LeClezio,LesL, LecturerAddress: Room 15, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3163 Email: Phonetics and phonology of Italian, including sociological variation; language teaching; French phonetics, especially the modern trends of the vocalic system; the Nilotic languages of the Southern Sudan and East Africa. | |
John A. Maidment,BA, LecturerAddress: Room 11, 21 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3166 Email: The history of /r/ in English phonology; how speech differs with rate of speaking; laryngeal characteristics of adults' speech directed toward children; phonology of (English) intonation; phonetics and phonology of Irish; ejectives: their occurrence and phonological patterning in the languages of the world. | |
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Roger Moore,PhD, Visiting ProfessorAddress: 20/20 Speech, Malvern Hills Science Park, Geraldine Road, Malvern, Worcs., WR14 3SZ. Phone: +44 (0)1 684 585111 Email: Speech technology research and development. |
Ad Neeleman,PhD, Reader in LinguisticsAddress: Room 7, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3154 Email: Syntactic theory; the interaction between syntax and other linguistic modules; the flexibility of syntactic structures. | |
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Stuart Rosen,MSc, PhD, Professor of Speech and Hearing ScienceAddress: Room G27, Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 7404 Email: The role of the hearing mechanism in coding speech sounds; Auditory processing in people with dyslexia and specific language impairment; Central auditory processing studied both behaviourally and with functional nero-imaging; nonlinear properties of peripheral auditory filtering in normal and hearing-impaired listeners; auditory and speech-perceptual abilities of users of cochlear implants; Speech processing schemes for cochlear implants. |
Catherine Siciliano,AB, MPhil, Research FellowAddress: Room G18 Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 7432 Email: Speech recognition and analysis, audio-visual speech processing and applications for the hearing impaired, natural language processing, neuropsychology. | |
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Neil V. Smith,MA, PhD, FBA, Professor of Linguistics and TutorAddress: Room 8, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 7173 Email: Language acquisition and psycholinguistics more generally; the Savant Syndrome; general Linguistic theory and its philosophical implications; pragmatics; Chomsky's linguistic and political thought. |
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John C. Wells,MA, PhD, FBA, Professor of PhoneticsAddress: Room 6, 21 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 7175 Email: EFL-oriented English phonetics; phonetics in lexicography, including the investigation of speakers' pronunciation preferences, multilingual comparative phonetics: symbolization, notation; English accents. |
Tim Wharton,BA, PhD, Research FellowAddress: Room 8, 21 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3155 Email: The pragmatics of 'showing' and 'saying', natural communicative behaviours, lexical pragmatics. | |
Geoff Williams,BSc, MA, PhD, Research FellowAddress: Room G34 Wolfson House. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 7405 Email: Speech recognition and processing, especially phonologically based; computational linguistics; speech perception, including audio-visual, and its relationship to linguistic theory; government phonology. | |
Deirdre S.M. Wilson,BPhil, PhD, FBA, Professor of LinguisticsAddress: Room 4, 20 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3153 Email: Pragmatics, semantics, style, poetics, philosophy of language. | |
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Moira J. Yip,MA, PhD, Professor of LinguisticsAddress: Room 8, 21 Gordon Square. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3158 Email: Phonology, Optimality Theory, tone, morphophonology, Chinese linguistics. |