{"id":978,"date":"2022-10-26T20:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/?page_id=978"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:11:56","slug":"niamh-kelly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/people\/niamh-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Niamh Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology (school of SELLL)
Email:\u00a0niamh.kelly@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>
Staff profile: <link<\/a>>
Personal website: <link><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research interests are phonetics and phonology, and I am also interested in psycholinguistics, multilingualism & second language acquisition, language variation and linguistic typology. I am interested in sound systems from the perspective of both production and perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since September 2022, I am a lecturer in phonetics and phonology in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a VAP at UT El Paso in 2021-22, I ran a project examining the production of \/l\/ sounds by bilingual speakers of English and Spanish from the El Paso region, to investigate the effects of language dominance on velarisation patterns. I am currently examining those recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, at the American University of Beirut, I conducted experiments examining tonal alignment, vowel length, syllable structure and onset type, as well as phrase-final intonation in Lebanese Arabic. I have also published work on aspiration in stops and affricates of Western Armenian and how this is influenced by L2 Arabic vs L2 English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015-16 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz, Austria, working on a project examining the acoustic correlates of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English to determine the effect of a speaker’s home language and the interaction in Welsh English of the correlates of stress in English and Welsh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My dissertation focused on the interaction of lexical pitch accent and sentence-level intonation in Norwegian using both production and perception experiments. I have also done research on tone, phonation and vowel quality in Burmese, ‘imala<\/em> in Lebanese Arabic, tonal alignment in Palestinian Arabic, the pitch accent of Lithuanian, rhythm in Austrian German, and on dental and alveolar stops in Irish English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research integrates approaches from phonetics, psycholinguistics and theoretical phonology, and I focus on understudied language varieties as well as the speech of bilinguals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology (school of SELLL)Email:\u00a0niamh.kelly@newcastle.ac.ukStaff profile: <link>Personal website: <link> Research Interests: My research interests are phonetics and phonology, and I am also interested in psycholinguistics, multilingualism & second language acquisition, language variation and linguistic typology. I am … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10387,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions\/1224"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phonphon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}