Members
Dr Esther de Leeuw
Lab Director (on leave)Multilingualism, bilingualism, L1 attrition, L2 acquisition, phonetics, phonology
Dr Adam Chong
Lab Director (2021-2022)Phonological acquisition and processing, prosody and intonational phonology, speech perception
Benjamin Timm
Technical Laboratory Manager
Dr Kathleen McCarthy
Early phonological acquisition, first and second language acquisition, speech perception and production, bilingualism, acoustic-phonetics
Dr Sophie Holmes-Elliott
Sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language change, language acquisition.
Dr Vita Kogan
L2 phonetics and phonology, individual differences, L2 acquisition, cognitive science
Prof Devyani Sharma
Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, English dialects, language change, accent variation
Students
Matthew Hunt
PhD Student
Scott Kunkel
PhD StudentSpeech perception, phonetic variation, bidialectalism, language attitudes, dialects of French
Scott Lewis
PhD Studentultrasound, phonetic drift, bidialectalism, longitudinal studies, AAA software, R, Praat
Miriam Tenderini
PhD StudentEmotion, bilingualism, music psychology, EEG (event-related potentials)
Collaborators
Prof Phaedra Royle
Linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, dysphasia, neurolinguistics
Prof Karsten Steinhauer
Psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, event-related brain potentials (ERPs), speech and music processing
Dr Linnaea Stockall
Morpho-syntax, morpho-semantics
Dr Tiina Eilola
bilingualism, music cognition, psycholinguistics, emotional representation in bilinguals
Dr Enkeleida Kapia
Albanian, syntax, prosody, speech perception, speech production, language acquisition
Dr Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
Formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics, psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition
Dr Marcus Pearce
music cognition, statistical learning, prediction, empirical aesthetics
Dr Erez Levon
Sociolinguistics, gender & sexuality, language style, indexicality, social cognition, intersectionality, Israel, South Africa
Dr Zoe Adams
perception, attitudes, accent stereotyping, and persuasive communication, PsychoPy, R
Dr Qian Luo
Phonetics, phonology, tones
Visitors
Dr Sarah Knight
Cognitive contributions to speech-in-noise perception; vocal trait judgements; speech rhythm
Celia Gorba Masip
PhD StudentSpanish, L1 attrition, speech perception, speech production, bilingualism
Dr Danielle Turton
Ultrasound tongue imaging, phonetics, phonology, variationist sociolinguistics and quantitative methods
Dr Eri Iwagami
Alumni
Vittoria Moresco
MA StudentExecutive control, speech, cognition, bilingualism, phonetics
Aurela Tusha
MA StudentAlbanian, L1 attrition, phonology, phonetics
Dr Elisa Passoni
Associate Lecturer, University of YorkJapanese-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 Karen Beaman
Post-doc. Fellow, U. TübingenSociolinguistic variation and language change, sociophonetic and morphosyntactic focus, lectal coherence, German dialectology (Swabian)
Dr Rosie Oxbury
Data Scientist, Public Health EnglandSociophonetics, language variation and change, speech production, bilingualism, dialect acquisition, vowels & diphthongs