Phonetics and phonology
Phonetics and Phonology Research Group
The phonetics and phonology research group (or 'P-group') brings together researchers who are working to understand the phonetics and/or phonology of human language. We combine a broad range of expertise and interests, ranging from acoustic and articulatory phonetics to formal phonological theory, taking in sociophonetics, phonological dialectology, speech recognition and speech synthesis, speech perception, laboratory phonology, historical phonology, and developmental phonology.
We explore these issues from formal, experimental, and engineering perspectives, with interests in synchrony, diachrony, and acquisition. Members of the group work as individuals, in collaboration with each other, and in a number of collaborations with other researchers in Edinburgh and at other universities.
Most members of the group are primarily affiliated with Linguistics and English Language, but others come from elsewhere at the University of Edinburgh (e.g., the Centre for Speech Technology Research and Informatics), or from Speech and Hearing Sciences at Queen Margaret University.
Meetings
The P-group normally meet (our meetings are called the 'Phonetics and Phonology Workshop', or 'P-workshop') on Fridays (but not every Friday) at 12:10pm. For more information (and/or if you'd like to be added to the P-workshop mailing list), email the organisers: Patrick Honeybone, Gilly Marchini and Ricardo Napoleão de Souza.
People
Staff working in this area include:
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Research interests |
Dr Laura Arnold |
Descriptive and documentary linguistics; tone, especially the tone systems of west New Guinea |
(Informatics) |
Automatic speech recognition |
(Informatics) |
Formal phonology; phonology-phonetics interface; click languages; simulations in phonology |
Dr Stefano Coretta | Phonetics; phonology; statistics |
Dr Benjamin Elie | Acoustics and articulatory models of human speech production |
Professor Emeritus Heinz J Giegerich | Phonological and morphological theory, especially in relation to English |
Professor Lauren Hall-Lew | Sociolinguistics; sociophonetics; phonetic methods; English variation and change; language and ethnicity; language and tourism |
Professor Patrick Honeybone | Historical phonology; phonological theory; phonological dialectology; northern Englishes |
Dr Christian Ilbury | Sociolinguistics; language variation and change |
Dr Pavel Iosad | Theoretical phonology; phonological interfaces; historical phonology; Celtic languages; Germanic languages |
Dr Itamar Kastner | Morphology; morphophonology; syntax; semantics |
Speech recognition; speech synthesis | |
Professor Emeritus Bob Ladd | Intonation and prosody (incl. phonology, phonetics, and paralinguistics); phonology-phonetics "interface" issues; language and music |
Dr Catherine Lai | Speech prosody; spoken language understanding; affective computing; semantics; pragmatics; information structure |
Dr Warren Maguire | Dialectology; varieties of English/Scots; phonetic and phonological variation and change |
Prosodic structure and change; phonology and morphology of Mapudungun (isolate, Chile/Argentina); sound-to-spelling mapping, especially in Older Scots |
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Dr Ricardo Napoleão de Souza | Phonetics; phonology; historical linguistics |
Professor Mits Ota | First and second language acquisition; phonology |
Dr Rebekka Puderbaugh | Acoustic phonetics; phonetic description of understudied languages; glottalic speech; phonation |
Dr Michael Ramsammy |
Experimental and theoretical phonology; phonological change; Creole Englishes; articulatory phonetics |
Dr Tatiana Reid | Language description; language documentation; West Nilotic languages; Reel; Nuer; phonetics; phonology; morphophonology |
Dr Bert Remijsen | Suprasegmental systems: how languages make use of pitch, duration, voice quality, loudness, and to some extent vowel quality |
Dr Korin Richmond | Speech synthesis; articulatory data for speech technology; lexicography and pronunciation modelling |
(Queen Margaret University) |
Socio-laboratory phonology; child speech; covert and quasi-phonemic phonological contrast; clinical phonetics; Scottish English; articulatory phonetics; ultrasound analysis of the tongue |
(Informatics) |
Computational linguistics; spoken intonation; spoken language processing |
Professor Alice Turk | Speech production; speech perception; prosodic structure; timing |
Postgraduates
Research postgraduates working in this area include:
Mirella Blum | Morphophonology; descriptive and documentary linguistics; morphosyntax; tone; Dinka (Western Nilotic) |
Brandon Kieffer | Historical phonology of Great Lakes Bantu |
Phonology; phonological change; the phonological interface with morphosyntax; metrical phonology |
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Siqing Li | English phonology; plural fricative lenisisation |
Gilly Marchini |
Phonetics; phonology; Spanish and French dialectology |
Alice Marikan | Sociolinguistic Dialectology; variation; phonetics; Austronesian Linguistics |
Phonological theory; the phonetics-phonology interface; Celtic linguistics | |
William Peralta | Tonogenesis; perception and production in the context of prosody |
Acoustic and articulatory phonetics; phonetics-phonology interface; laboratory and experimental phonology |
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Zhaoxi Yan |
Sociolinguistics; sociophonetics; language variation and change |
You can also see what some of our recent postgraduate students worked on:
Postgraduate Study
We welcome applications from potential postgraduates who would like to join our group:
History
Find out more about the roots of phonetics and phonology research at Edinburgh: