Phonetics and Phonology Research Group

People

The majority of members are primarily affiliated with Linguistics & English Language, University of Edinburgh. In the list below, affiliations are only listed when different. CSTR is Centre for Speech Technology Research; QMU is Queen Margaret University.

The Phonetics and Phonology Research Group regularly attracts visitors, who benefit from and contribute to the research environment. Recent visitors (2005) include Peter Ladefoged (UCLA), Leoma Gilley (SIL), and Doris Mücke (U. of Cologne).

Name

Main research interests

Technical expertise

Permanent staff
Ellen Bard psycholinguistics of speech producation and perception experimental design; statistics
Julian Bradfield logic, application of concurrency to phonology computational modelling
Patrick Honeybone theoretical phonology and its history; phonological change; accents of English from Northern England Phonological theory: representational theories, Government and Dependency Phonology, OT
Simon King (CSTR / LEL) speech recognition and speech synthesis, incl. the use of articulatory information HTK, GMTK, EMA, Festival, feature detection from speech waveforms
Bob Ladd intonation and prosody (incl. phonology, phonetics, and paralinguistics); phonology-phonetics "interface" issues interpretation of extracted F0
April McMahon phonology, historical linguistics, language evolution phonological analysis
Warren Maguire dialectology, varieties of English/Scots, phonetic and phonological variation and change speech corpus analysis
Ineke Mennen (QMU) acquisition of intonation and prosody; intonation in clinical populations acoustic analysis, ToDI, intonation analysis in atypical populations
Mits Ota phonological acquisition; prosodic structure OT, CLAN, Phon
Jim Scobbie (QMU) phonetics/phonology interface articulatory & acoustic phonetics, phonological analysis
Mark Steedman computational linguistics, spoken intonation, spoken language processing computational modelling
Alice Turk speech production, speech perception, prosodic structure, duration acoustic & articulatory segmentation + measurement; experimental design

Other staff
Matthew Aylett speech technology speech synthesis, acoustic analysis of corpora
Sasha Calhoun prosody and intonation; particularly the relationship between prosody/intonation and discourse meanings, e.g. information structure, speech acts and affect; probabilistic modelling of this relationship acoustic analysis of prosody/intonation; corpus modelling
Rob Clark speech synthesis and intonation speech processing, programming
Markus Guhe cognition and speech experimental design
Robin Hill psycholinguistics, task-related dialogue experimental design
Cassie Mayo Human speech perception behaviour, in particular acoustic cue weighting in speech perception; perceptual development; perceptual evaluation of speech (natural and synthetic) experimental design
Satsuki Nakai cross-linguistic similarities and differences in speech production and speech perception stimulus design in production and perception studies; acoustic segmentation
Craig Nicol psycholinguistics programming, eye-tracking data analysis
Bert Remijsen prosody, in particular prosodic typology; language description acoustic analysis; linguistic fieldwork
Sonja Schaeffler (QMU) speech intelligibility and its phonetic correlates; second-language acquisition; speech and emotion acoustic and articulatory analysis (Praat, Articulate Assistant); experimental design (e.g. Map Task, PsyScope)
Akira Utsugi prosody of Japanese and Korean acoustic analysis, Praat, J_ToBI, K-ToBI
Maria Wolters Speech synthesis, prosody, spoken dialogue systems, speech technology for older and differently abled people, speech perception Praat scripting, acoustic analysis, speech synthesis

PhD students
Lynn Clark sociophonetics; usage-based approaches to phonological theory
Sarah Collie stress, Optimality Theory, Lexical Phonology phonological analysis, SPSS
Catherine Dickie phonological representations in language impairment E-Prime; Praat; CoolEdit/Audition; SPSS
Mako Fujino L2 speech perception Praat, E-Prime, CoolEdit/Audition
Evia Kainada prosodic hierarchy of Greek; connected speech processes; experimental phonetics acoustic analysis, Praat, E-Prime, Java, Python
Rachel Macdonald acquisition of vowels in L2 French Praat, E-Prime
Tareq Maiteq Pharyngealization in Libyan Arabic Acoustics, Praat
Tim Mills speech production, experimental phonetics, motor coordination acoustic analysis, Praat (especially scripting), spectral tilt, laryngeal endoscopy
Shu-chen (Sherry) Ou L2 phonological acquisition E-Prime
Emi Sakamoto Second language speech acquisition acoustic analysis, E-Prime, Praat
Jennifer Sullivan Phonetic similarity; prosody, intonation and language evolution Praat, SPSS, Python
Lukas Wiget speech perception, auditory word recognition, experimental phonetics Praat, E-Prime

Current and recent collaborators

Janet Beck, Olga Gordeeva, Nigel Hewlett, Robin Lickley, Jocelynne Watson, (QMU); Amalia Arvaniti (UCSD); Philip Carr (Montpellier); Corine Astésano (Toulouse); Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester); Yiya Chen, Jan Peter de Ruiter (MPI / Radboud University Nijmegen); Laura Dilley (Ohio State); Snezhina Dimitrova (Sofia); Mariapaola D'Imperio (Aix-Marseille); Leoma Gilley (SIL/Khartoum); Peter Ladefoged (UCLA); Marianne Pouplier (Munich); Astrid Schepman (Bradford); Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (MIT), Joseph Salmons (Wisconsin-Madison); Mariko Sugahara (Doshisha); Laurence White (Bristol).