PhD Linguistics, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics (HASS)
Email: f.du4@newcastle.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Second Language Acquisition
• Sentence Processing
• Sound Change
• Speech Perception
• Speech Processing

PhD Topic: The Perception of and Adaptation to Regional and East Asian English Accents by Native and L2 English Speakers
Supervisors: Martha Young-Scholten & Rory Turnbull

My research focuses on the perception and adaptation of English accents from Eastern Asian L2 English speakers. I intend to find the relationship between L1 language backgrounds and accentual traces. In another word, I am looking at if there is an intelligibility benefit from L1s in perceiving L2-accented speech. I am currently having contact with Burmese, Mandarin, Thai and Vietnamese L2 English speakers.