Current Academic Staff in Language Sciences

	Klaus Abels, PhD, Lecturer in Syntax in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115B, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4061 Email: k.abels@ucl.ac.uk Syntactic theory; universal aspects of word and morpheme ordering; representational and computational properties of syntax and the relation between them;
	Shirley Anker, in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room BW409, Department of Psychology, University College London,Bedford Way. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 5355 Email: s.anker@ucl.ac.uk Vis dev, dev dis
	Michael Ashby, MA, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 323, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4090 Email: m.ashby@ucl.ac.uk EFL: treatment of vowels in weak syllables, stress in phrasal verbs and idioms; general phonetic theory (especially the nature of phonetic categorisation by trained observers); English intonation (again from EFL/pedagogical angle).
	Jan Atkinson, Head of Research Department of Developmental Science, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Visual Development Unit in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room BW406, Department of Psychology, Bedford Way, . Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 7574 Email: j.atkinson@ucl.ac.uk Developmental visual neuroscience; models of normal and abnormal development of human vision; neuropsychology of visuocognitive and spatial problems in children; Williams Syndrome; visual development in term/premature 'high risk' infants; visual seculae of prematurity; neonatal structural MRI/fMRI; infant vision screening; development of visual attention and executive function.
	Suzanne Beeke, Head of Research Department of Language and Communication, Lecturer, PhD, BA (Hons), RegMRCSLT in Dept. Language and Communication Address: Room 313, Chandler House, University College London, Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF. Phone: + 00 44 (0) 20 7679 4215 Email: s.beeke@ucl.ac.uk Conversation analysis of interactions involving people with communication disability, especially aphasia, the characteristics of task-based and conversational analysis-based interventions for people with aphasia.
	Wendy Best, Reader, PhD, MSc, MRCSLT in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 206, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4257 Email: w.best@ucl.ac.uk Investigation of and therapy for speech and language difficulties in children and adults. Current projects focus on: word-finding, gesture, auditory comprehension and conversation. Facilitating links between research and clinical practice. Previous research has included work with people with anomia, developmental dyslexia, category specific semantic disorder and with word sound deafness.
	Dee Birtles, Research Fellow in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room BW407, Department of Psychology, University College London, Bedford Way.. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 5350 Email: d.birtles@ucl.ac.uk Vis Dev, dev dis
	Steven Bloch, NIHR Research Fellow, Lecturer, PhD, MSc, BSc, MRCSLT in Dept. Language and Communication Address: Room 310, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4269 Email: s.bloch@ucl.ac.uk Interaction between people with progressive neurological conditions and significant others; the use of AAC systems by adults in conversation; the application of Conversation Analysis in the study of progressive dysarthria and AAC
	Kate Breckenridge, Research Fellow Address: Room BW407, Department of Psychology, University College London, Bedford Way.. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 5350 Email: k.breckenridge@ucl.ac.uk Attention, Dev Dis
	Richard Breheny, PhD, Reader in Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 108, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: 020 7679 4039 Email: r.breheny@ucl.ac.uk Semantics, pragmatics, the development of semantic and communicative competence, psycholinguistics (experimental pragmatics), philosophy of psychology and linguistics.
	Carolyn Bruce, PhD, MSc, Diploma of the College of Speech Therapists in Dept. Language and Communication Address: Room 312, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4225 Email: c.bruce@ucl.ac.uk Research interests centre on the rehabiliation of acquired aphasia. Currently investigating the use of voice recognition writing software, developing and evaluating novel approaches to intervention and exploring barriers to successful return to work.
	Robyn Carston, MA, PhD, Professor of Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 107, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0)20 7679 4037 Email: robyn.carston@ucl.ac.uk Pragmatics, semantics, cognitive processing, cognitive architecture, philosophy of language, communication and interpretation, theory of mind, figurative meaning, linguistic creativity.
	Kirsty Catling, Teaching Fellow, BSc, MRCSLT in Dept. Language and Communication Address: Room 311, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4234 Email: k.catling@ucl.ac.uk Year 4 Professional Studies Co-ordinator
	Michael Clarke, Lecturer, PhD in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 210, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4253 Email: m.clarke@ucl.ac.uk Communication in children with physical disabilities and complex needs, including children who have been provided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems. Associated with the following HCS research categories: Communication, Disorder and the Brain
	Jana Dankovicova, Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 322, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4251 Email: j.dankovicova@ucl.ac.uk Speech prosody (articulation / speech rate, intonation, speech rhythm), including clinical applications (e.g. Foreign Accent Syndrome), phonetics of emotion in speech, perception of accent in second language users of English.
	Volker Dellwo, PhD, MA, Lecturer in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 328, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4094 Email: v.dellwo@ucl.ac.uk Speech prosody: the study of speech rhythm and timing on an acoustic and perceptual level as well as the perception of syllable prominences. Forensic phonetics: speaker variability and influences on speaker recognition.
	Chris Donlan, Deputy to the Associate Dean in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 209, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4243 Email: c.donlan@ucl.ac.uk Language and mathematical cognition, with a special interest in development and disorders. Most of my research has been with children with Specific Language Impairments (SLI). Recent findings concern the impact of SLI on the development of mathematical language, skills, and concepts.mathematical language. Associated with the following HCS research categories: Development, Language, and Cognitive Science
	Judit Druks, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115F, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London.. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4261 Email: j.druks@ucl.ac.uk I am interested in brain and language relations. My research concentrates on language impairments - semantic, syntactic and morphological - of aphasic and dementia patients. I have worked on noun-verb processing differences in non-brain-damaged adults and children, in SLI children, and aphasic, and Alzheimer's dementia, and semantic dementia patients; on the availability of grammatical morphemes and prepositions in the speech of aphasic patients; on syntactic comprehension deficits in aphasia; acquired dyslexia; and modality specific aphasia.
	Anne Edmundson, in Dept. Language and Communication Address: Room 304, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: +44 (0) 7679 4221 Email: a.edmundson@ucl.ac.uk Single case study investigations of acquired language disorders from a cognitive neuropsychological perspective (particular interests include reading and spelling difficulties); The use of computer techology (e.g. voice recognition systems) to compensate for acquired literacy problems Associated with the following HCS research categories: Communication, Disorder and the Brain
	Bronwen G. Evans, MSc, PhD, Lecturer in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 321, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4089 Email: bronwen.evans@ucl.ac.uk Experimental Phonetics.
	Andrew Faulkner, Head of Research Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, Reader, DPhil, BA. in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 314, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4075 Email: a.faulkner@ucl.ac.uk Speech perception in normally-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners, audio-visual speech perception, psychoacoustics of normal and impaired hearing, speech signal processing in hearing aids and cochlear implants, assessment of speech perceptual ability.
	Lorna Halliday, Lecturer, D.Phil in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 319, Chandler House, UCL, 2 Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4265 Email: l.halliday@ucl.ac.uk Auditory processing; Developmental disorders of communication (dyslexia, SLI, mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss); Auditory training.
	John Harris, MA, PhD, Professor of Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 109, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4042 Email: john.harris@ucl.ac.uk Phonological theory; phonetics-phonology interface; phonological disorder; variation and change in English.
	Valerie Hazan, BSc, MA, PhD, Professor in Speech Sciences in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 315, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London.. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4076 Email: v.hazan@ucl.ac.uk Development of phoneme categorisation in normally-hearing and hearing-impaired children and in second-language learners; effects of listener- and speaker-related factors on speech intelligibility; effects of auditory and auditory-visual training for second-language learners.
	Peter Howell, Professor in Dept. Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences Address: University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 7566 Email: p.howell@ucl.ac.uk Speech perception and production. Currently the main focus is on disorders of speech production and perception. Hearing and music.
	Mark Huckvale, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 320, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4087 Email: m.huckvale@ucl.ac.uk Speech and language technology as a means to model human language processing and to build a conversational interface to computers.
	Paul Iverson, PhD, Reader in Speech Sciences in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 331, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4237 Email: p.iverson@ucl.ac.uk Speech perception, language learning and development, cochlear implants, musical timbre
	Nathan Klinedinst, PhD, Lecturer in Pragmatics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115c, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4062 Email: nathank@ucl.ac.uk Meaning and communication in natural language, as a part of the cognitive sciences.
	Mairead MacSweeney, Lecturer in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Institute of Child Health, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 1157 Email: m.macsweeney@ich.ucl.ac.uk Neuropsychology of language processing in deaf people: BSL, speechreading and text reading. Cognitive development in deaf children.
	Merle Mahon, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 207, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4036 Email: merle.mahon@ucl.ac.uk Interaction and spoken language development in deaf children; deaf and hearing children for whom English is an additional language; Conversation Analysis methodology.
	Jane Maxim, Emeritus Professor, PhD, DipCSLT in Dept. Language and Communication Address: Room 304, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4227 Email: j.maxim@ucl.ac.uk Speech and language processing in normal and abnormal populations, Conversation Analysis intervention for people with aphasia, evaluating communication training for care workers.
	Ad Neeleman, PhD, Professor in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 110, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4045 Email: a.neeleman@ucl.ac.uk Syntactic theory; the interaction between syntax and other linguistic modules; the flexibility of syntactic structures.
	Caroline Newton, Lecturer in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 202C, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4222 Email: caroline.newton@ucl.ac.uk 'Research currently focusing on: The assessment of speech discrimination skills in various clinical populations, in particular the use of eye gaze as a means of assessment; Long-term outcomes for children provided with augmentative and alternative communication systems; The impact of unfamiliar speaker accent on auditory comprehension in adults with aphasia.
	Ann Parker, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Language and Communication Address: Room 202D, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4228 Email: a.parker@ucl.ac.uk Responsible for the teaching of professional studies in speech and language therapy. Her main research interests are the development of clinical skills, and the speech and communication of deaf people. Associated with the following HCS research categories: Interprofessional Education, and Health Studies
	Nausicaa Pouscoulous, PhD, Lecturer in Experimental Pragmatics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115E, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London.. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4073 Email: n.pouscoulous@ucl.ac.uk Theoretical and experimental pragmatics, semantics, the development of pragmatic and communicative competence, language acquisition, philosophy of language.
	Rachel Rees, Lecturer, PhD, MSc, RegMRCSLT in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 202A, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4226 Email: rachel.rees@ucl.ac.uk Deaf children's speech processing skills, assessment of deaf children's speech, role of orthography in deaf children's speech development, effects of Cued Speech on speech and literacy development
	Frances Rice, Honorary Lecturer, PhD, MPhil, BA in Dept. Developmental Science Email: f.rice@ucl.ac.uk I am interested in developmental psychopathology, especially the aetiology of emotional problems in young people. I use a number of approaches to try and identify proximal risk factors for psychopathology in children and adolescents including behaviour genetics, quasi-experimental designs, longitudinal research and neuroimaging.
	Stuart Rosen, MSc, PhD, Professor of Speech and Hearing Science in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 316, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4077 Email: s.rosen@ucl.ac.uk The role of the hearing mechanism in coding speech sounds; Auditory processing in people with dyslexia and specific language impairment; Central auditory processing studied both behaviourally and with functional neuro-imaging; nonlinear properties of peripheral auditory filtering in normal and hearing-impaired listeners; auditory and speech-perceptual abilities of users of cochlear implants; Speech processing schemes for cochlear implants.
	Carol Sacchett, Lecturer, Clinical Placements Manager (SLT) in Dept. Language and Communication Address: Room 305, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4252 Email: c.sacchett@ucl.ac.uk a) Aphasia theory and intervention, in particular non-verbal communication and sentence comprehension and production disorders b) Event processing and the relationship between language and cognition c) Access to information for people with communication problems d) Practice-based/professional learning
	Anne Schlottmann, Senior Lecturer and Third Year Tutor in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Department of Psychology, University College London, Bedford Way.. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 5383 Email: a.schlottmann@ucl.ac.uk Cognitive development; causal reasoning and perception in children and adults; probability understanding in children; Information Integration Theory
	Sophie Scott, Professor in Dept. Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences Address: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, . Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 1144 Email: sophie.scott@ucl.ac.uk The neurobiology of speech perception, including the functional sub systems in human auditory cortex, the evolution of speech, the difference between intelligibilty and comprehension, and profiles of recovery in aphasia. This relates to my work on dyslexia and processing of emotional information in the voice. I am also involved in a project looking at reading and rehabiliation in hemianopic alexia.
	Sarah Simpson, Lecturer in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 202B, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4218 Email: s.simpson@ucl.ac.uk Speech and language therapist interested in the links between written and spoken language difficulties in children of school age. Associated with the following Developmental Science research categories: Development, Language, and Cognitive Science
	Christina Smith, Lecturer in Dept. Language and Communication Address: Room 332, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4233 Email: christina.smith@ucl.ac.uk Investigations into swallowing in healthy individuals, disorders of swallowing and their rehabilitation. Speech production and areas of breakdown.
	John Swettenham, in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 208, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4220 Email: j.swettenham@ucl.ac.uk Processes underlying the development of social communication in normal and abnormal populations. This includes work on attention and perception, joint attention and face processing in autism. Associated with the following HCS research categories: Development, Language, and Cognitive Science
	Kriszta Szendroi, Lecturer in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115D, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4063 Email: k.szendroi@ucl.ac.uk Syntax and its interfaces, particularly topic and focus, acquisition of syntax and semantics; language processing
	Jyrki Tuomainen, Senior Lecturer, PhD in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 319, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4214 Email: j.tuomainen@ucl.ac.uk Neural basis of (audio-visual) speech perception and spoken word recognition
	Hans van de Koot, Head of Research Department of Linguistics, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 112, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4049 Email: h.v.d.koot@ucl.ac.uk Syntactic theory, especially the development of a syntactic theory that explains the core properties of grammatical dependencies; the relation of this theory to syntax-external systems; the computational complexity of language recognition problems.
	Gabriella Vigliocco, Professor Address: DCAL Centre, Gordon Square. Phone: +00 44 (0) 20 7679 8687 Email: g.vigliocco@ucl.ac.uk The research concerns psychological and neural mechanisms of human language use with a special emphasis on the question of how Language and cognition are integrated. My most important contributions to date include development of a theoretical framework for sentence production and development of an explicit model of semantic representation that can drive production. This work is cross-linguistic and it is interdisciplinary. My interest in sign languages (such as BSL) is driven by my general research questions as comparing signed and spoken languages provides us with unique tools to separate what is special to language and what, instead, is determined by the medium (visual, acoustic) used by a given language.
	John Wattam-Bell, Senior Lecturer in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room BW405, Department of Psychology, University College London, Bedford Way.. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 5358 Email: j.wattam-bell@ucl.ac.uk Visual Development, Development disabilities.
	Deirdre Wilson, FBA, PhD, BPhil, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 102C, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +00 44 (0)20 7679 4021 Email: deirdre.wilson@ucl.ac.uk Pragmatics, semantics, style, poetics, philosophy of language.
	Bencie Woll, Professor in Dept. Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences Address: 49 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD. Phone: +44 20 7679 8670 Email: b.woll@ucl.ac.uk Director of the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre 1) Modality Language and thought that are visual and spatial may show similarities and differences from language and thought processed through hearing and through speech. 2) Experience Deaf infants do not always develop language in the same way as hearing children learn spoken language. The unique language learning experience of Deaf children means that their language processing skills when they grow up may have unique features.
	Janet Wood, Lecturer, MSc, MRCSLT in Dept. Developmental Science Address: Room 202D, Chandler House, UCL, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4241 Email: janet.wood@ucl.ac.uk Interagency collaboration, specifically at a strategic level; behaviour within meetings; grounded theory methodology.
	Yi Xu, PhD, Reader in Speech Sciences in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Address: Room 318, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4082 Email: yi.xu@ucl.ac.uk Mechanisms of speech production; melodic aspect of speech; intonation modeling, synthesis and recognition; and speech perception as it is related to production.
	Moira Yip, MA, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics in Dept. Linguistics Address: Room 115A, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4056 Email: m.yip@ucl.ac.uk Phonology, Optimality Theory, tone, morphophonology, Chinese linguistics.

Current Academic Staff in Language Sciences

Klaus Abels,

Shirley Anker,

Michael Ashby,

Jan Atkinson,

Suzanne Beeke,

Wendy Best,

Dee Birtles,

Steven Bloch,

Kate Breckenridge,

Richard Breheny,

Carolyn Bruce,

Robyn Carston,

Kirsty Catling,

Michael Clarke,

Jana Dankovicova,

Volker Dellwo,

Chris Donlan,

Judit Druks,

Anne Edmundson,

Bronwen G. Evans,

Andrew Faulkner,

Lorna Halliday,

John Harris,

Valerie Hazan,

Peter Howell,

Mark Huckvale,

Paul Iverson,

Nathan Klinedinst,

Mairead MacSweeney,

Merle Mahon,

Jane Maxim,

Ad Neeleman,

Caroline Newton,

Ann Parker,

Nausicaa Pouscoulous,

Rachel Rees,

Frances Rice,

Stuart Rosen,

Carol Sacchett,

Anne Schlottmann,

Sophie Scott,

Sarah Simpson,

Christina Smith,

John Swettenham,

Kriszta Szendroi,

Jyrki Tuomainen,

Hans van de Koot,

Gabriella Vigliocco,

John Wattam-Bell,

Deirdre Wilson,

Bencie Woll,

Janet Wood,

Yi Xu,

Moira Yip,