-
News:
Accent Articulation Conference First Language Acquisition Group focuses Job Laboratory Phonology Lecturer Linguistics Morphology Perception PhD Funding Phonetics Phonetics and Phonology Phonology Professor Project on Tyneside English Psycholinguistics R Research associate Sociolinguistics Sociophonetics Speech Signal Analysis Speech signal processing statistics Workshop
Tag Archives: Sociolinguistics
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
Posted in Group Focuses, Proceedings
Tagged Phonetics, Phonetics and Phonology, Phonology, Sociolinguistics
Leave a comment
A Resounding Success: Our Journey at ICPHS 2023
From August 7th to 11th, our research group embarked on an illuminating expedition to the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPHS) 2023. As one of the most significant congresses in the field of phonetics, the ICPHS is a … Continue reading
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
Three-minute thesis final
Date: 16th June, 16:00 – 18:00 Location: Baddiley Clark Seminar RoomBook: https://workshops.ncl.ac.uk/view/book/modal/50275/ Drinks reception and canapés from 16:00 Presentations will begin at 17:00 The finals of the 3-minute thesis are taking place on the 16th of June. One of our members, Carol-Ann McConnellogue, has … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Uncategorised
Tagged Conference, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics
Leave a comment
Recap Semester 2 2021/2022
From January 2022 to May 2022, our research group has continued to be well-engaged in projects from Semester 1 and arranged new workshops to discuss topics of interest amongst our team members. The following is a summary of what we … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorised
Tagged Accent, Phonetics, Phonetics and Phonology, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics
Leave a comment
Accent and Social Justice Workshop
Our research theme for 2021/22 has been “Accent and Social Justice”. We have read and reviewed literature on accent processing and perception, and discussed the prejudices towards certain accents and the injustices those may experience. In order to spread awareness … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged Accent, Phonetics, Phonetics and Phonology, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics
Leave a comment
Recap Semester 1 2021/2022
From September 2021 to February 2022, our research group has been very active and involved in several projects. Here is a short summary of what we discussed during our weekly meetings: Accent and Social Justice: Within our research theme for … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged Accent, Phonetics and Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, statistics
Leave a comment
Melissa Baese-Berk’s Talk
Date: 06/12/2021 Prof. Melissa and her colleagues and students are constantly productive in the research of speech processing as well as accent perception and adaptation. In her talk, she walked us through their new work on the adaptation to unfamiliar … Continue reading
19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences – Caitlin Halfacre
Post originally appeared on the PhilSoc Blog In August 2019, I was supported by a PhilSoc travel bursary to attend the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, to present a poster. The conference was in Melbourne, hosted by The Australasian … Continue reading
Introduction to Ultrasound Tongue Imaging
Training in the usage and analysis of UTI (Ultrasound Tongue Imaging) with Natasha Zharkova by Andreas Krug Over the course of two sessions, Natasha introduced us to the use of ultrasound tongue imaging in linguistics research. We learned about data … Continue reading
