Members
Dr Adam Chong
Lab DirectorPhonological acquisition and processing, prosody and intonational phonology, speech perception
Dr Rémi Lamarque
Linguistics Labs ManagerRule emergence, productivity, and convergence in morphology/phonology
Dr Sophie Holmes-Elliott
Sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language change, language acquisition.
Dr Kathleen McCarthy
Early phonological acquisition, first and second language acquisition, speech perception and production, bilingualism, acoustic-phonetics
Dr Elisa Passoni
Postdoctoral Research Associate, GLE grantJapanese-English bilingualism, L1 attrition, L2 acquisition, pitch, prosody, sociophonetics, gender
Prof Devyani Sharma
Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, English dialects, language change, accent variation
Students
Chiara Ardoino
PhD StudentLanguage variation and contact-induced change; language ideology and coherence; Martinican French and Creole
Marc Barnard
PhD StudentSociolinguistics, sociophonetics, perception, production, dialects of French
Scott Kunkel
PhD StudentSpeech perception, phonetic variation, bidialectalism, language attitudes, dialects of French
Sora (Heng) Yin
PhD StudentResearch interests: Phonological acquisition, lexical acquisition, language variation and change, speech perception
Daniel Price
Undergraduate Research AssistantStudent Research Bursary Recipient
Francesca Ziegler
Undergraduate Research AssistantStudent Research Bursary Recipient
Melissa Chia
Research AssistantBA-SRG Funded Research Assistant (Singapore)
Adelle Lee
Research AssistantBA-SRG Funded Research Assistant (Singapore)
Wesley Lincoln
Research AssistantBA-SRG Funded Research Assistant (Singapore)
Alumni
Dr Esther de Leeuw
Former Lab DirectorMultilingualism, bilingualism, L1 attrition, L2 acquisition, phonetics, phonology
Dr. Scott Lewis
PhD Studentultrasound, phonetic drift, bidialectalism, longitudinal studies, AAA software, R, Praat
Dr Elisa Passoni
Postdoctoral Research Associate, GLE grantJapanese-English bilingualism, L1 attrition, L2 acquisition, pitch, prosody, sociophonetics, gender
Dr Nathan Young
Lecturer, Stockholm Uni. / Post-doc. Fellow, Uni. of OsloForced alignment, multiethnolect, prosody, sociophonetics, Swedish
Dr Rosie Oxbury
Data Scientist, Food Standards Agency UKSociophonetics, language variation and change, speech production, bilingualism, dialect acquisition, vowels & diphthongs
Dr Karen Beaman
Post-doc. Fellow, U. TübingenSociolinguistic variation and language change, sociophonetic and morphosyntactic focus, lectal coherence, German dialectology (Swabian)
Dr. Matthew Hunt
Lecturer in Linguistics, University of SouthamptonCollaborators
Linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, dysphasia, neurolinguistics
Psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, event-related brain potentials (ERPs), speech and music processing
Morpho-syntax, morpho-semantics
bilingualism, music cognition, psycholinguistics, emotional representation in bilinguals
Albanian, syntax, prosody, speech perception, speech production, language acquisition
Sociolinguistics, gender & sexuality, language style, indexicality, social cognition, intersectionality, Israel, South Africa
Vocal imitation and analysis, query by vocalisation, audio signal processing, machine learning, statistical modelling
Formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics, psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition
music cognition, statistical learning, prediction, empirical aesthetics
perception, attitudes, accent stereotyping, and persuasive communication, PsychoPy, R
Phonetics, phonology, tones
Former Visitors
Cognitive contributions to speech-in-noise perception; vocal trait judgements; speech rhythm
Spanish, L1 attrition, speech perception, speech production, bilingualism
Ultrasound tongue imaging, phonetics, phonology, variationist sociolinguistics and quantitative methods