Members

Dr Esther de Leeuw
Lab Director (on leave)Multilingualism, bilingualism, L1 attrition, L2 acquisition, phonetics, phonology

Dr Adam Chong
Phonological acquisition and processing, prosody and intonational phonology, speech perception

Dr Kathleen McCarthy
Acting Lab DirectorEarly phonological acquisition, first and second language acquisition, speech perception and production, bilingualism, acoustic-phonetics

Dr Qian Luo
Phonetics, phonology, tones

Dr Erez Levon
Sociolinguistics, gender & sexuality, language style, indexicality, social cognition, intersectionality, Israel, South Africa

Prof Devyani Sharma
Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, English dialects, language change, accent variation
Students

Scott Lewis
PhD Studentultrasound, phonetic drift, bidialectalism, longitudinal studies, AAA software, R, Praat

Elisa Passoni
PhD StudentJapanese-English bilingualism, L1 attrition, L2 acquisition, pitch, prosody, sociophonetics, gender

Nathan Young
PhD StudentForced alignment, multiethnolect, prosody, sociophonetics, Swedish

Ynda Jas
PhD StudentProsody, pitch, voice quality, sibilance, gender

Miriam Tenderini
PhD StudentEmotion, bilingualism, music psychology, EEG (event-related potentials)

Karen Beaman
PhD StudentSociolinguistic variation and language change, sociophonetic and morphosyntactic focus, lectal coherence, German dialectology (Swabian)

Rosie Oxbury
PhD StudentSociophonetics, language variation and change, speech production, bilingualism, dialect acquisition, vowels & diphthongs
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 Marcus Pearce
music cognition, statistical learning, prediction, empirical aesthetics

Dr Enkeleida Kapia
Albanian, syntax, prosody, speech perception, speech production, language acquisition

Dr Tiina Eilola
bilingualism, music cognition, psycholinguistics, emotional representation in bilinguals

Dr Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
Formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics, psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition

Zoe Adams
PhD Studentperception, attitudes, accent stereotyping, and persuasive communication, PsychoPy, R
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