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Revolutionizing Phonetic Research with Gamification: A New Approach to Accent Studies

Introduction: In the dynamic field of phonetic research, finding innovative ways to collect data can be both a challenge and an opportunity. At our P&P group, Cong, Yanyu, and Damar are taking a leap forward with their latest study, “Gamifying … Continue reading

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Effects of vowel and syllable position on laterals in bilingual speakers of English and Spanish

Date: 23/11/2022 Being interested in sound systems from the perspective of both production and perception, Niamh Kelly ran a project examining the production of /l/ sounds by bilingual speakers of English and Spanish from the El Paso region, to investigate … Continue reading

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Nonword Learning Project

Date: 14/11/2022 Rory Turnbull gave us a talk on his research on what influences the phonological structure of the words in a language.  The train of thoughts: The talk started with narrowing down the research questions: from the big question … Continue reading

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Research Group Meeting 08 Nov 2018 – Ebtehal Asiry & Jane Stuart Smith

Last week we were very privileged to host Ebtihal Asiry and Jane Stuart-Smith at our research group meeting. Ebtihal presented on “Investigating phonological variation in the English of Iraqi Arabs in two UK cities: London and Glasgow” (slides here), her … Continue reading

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Journal of Phonetics VOT special edition

Off the back of their success in winning the Peter Ladefoged Prize at BAAP 2018, Jalal and Ghada have now had their work on VOT of Arabic stops published in the Journal of Phonetics special edition ‘Marking 50 Years of … Continue reading

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