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