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