Phonetics and Phonology Research Group

PP GroupThis group studies the phonetics and phonology of human language from formal, experimental, and engineering perspectives. It is the locus of a regular exchange of ideas across Edinburgh institutions and has spawned reading groups in developmental phonology and historical phonology. The group's other work clusters in two areas: laboratory phonology and adult psycholinguistics.

The forum of the group is the weekly P-workshop, regularly attended by staff and students not only from Linguistics & English Language but also from the Centre for Speech Technology Research, from Informatics, and from Speech and Hearing Sciences at Queen Margaret University. This workshop includes reports of work in progress by staff and students, research talks by visitors, and occasional 'journal club' meetings where summary reports of current journals are presented and/or specific focus articles discussed.