William Peralta
PhD Linguistics & English Language
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: william.peralta@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Qualifications
2014-2017: Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours and the University Medal) in Linguistics, The University of Sydney.
- Dissertation title - "Sequential Phonologisation: A perceptual study of tonogenesis in Kurtöp"
2018-Present: Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics and English Language, The University of Edinburgh.
- Project - "The emergence and evolution of linguistic tone"
Research summary
Phonetics, Phonology, Tonology, Tonogenesis, Tonoexodus, Historical sound change, Japanese pragmatics, Bilingualism, Linguistic typology, the languages of Asia.
Current research interests
The interaction between perception and production in historical sound change. Acoustic correlates of tone and the description of tonal categories.Papers delivered
2018: "Tonogenesis: the perception of tone and the role of place of articulation in Kurtöp" - TAL (Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages), Beuth University, Berlin.
2020: "Place of articulation effects on the cue weighting of voicing" - LabPhon 17, Vancouver, Canada. (Online)