Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences Staff & Students
Academic Staff
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Affiliated Staff & Academic Visitors
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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PhD, Lecturer in Dept. Ear Institute
Address: Ear Institute. Phone: 020 7679 8889 Email: d.vickers@ucl.ac.uk
Research predominantly focuses on speech and psychophysics in hearing-impaired and cochlear implanted adults and children.
Current interests are in binaural processing, electrode discrimination and intensity discrimination in cochlear implants and temporal processing in children.
General areas of interest are:
High frequency cochlear dead regions;
Cochlear implants and psychophysics;
Hearing aids, binaural processing and music enjoyment.
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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.
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Teaching Staff
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Lecturer in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Email: l.cavalli@ucl.ac.uk
Speech and language therapist and lecturer with a specialist interest in the areas of voice, head and neck cancer and swallowing difficulties.
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BA, Teaching Fellow in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 302, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4231 Email: j.house@phon.ucl.ac.uk
Phonology and phonetics of prosody (stress, intonation); discourse prosody; intonation and pragmatic interpretation; modelling prosody for text-to-speech synthesis; phonetics of present-day English and French.
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MA, PhD, Teaching Fellow in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 302, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: 020 7679 3162 Email: j.przedlacka@ucl.ac.uk
Accent variation and change in English, EFL oriented phonetics
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Research Staff
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Rachel Baker,
in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
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MRes, BA (Hons), Bsc (Hions) in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Rm 326, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield St, London, WC1N 1PF . Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7669 4041 Email: samuel.evans@ucl.ac.uk
I am interested in the neural processing of speech. I
am currently using Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis (MVPA) to analyse neural responses to speech. In addition, I have an interest in dyslexia and speech processing.
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BSc, PhD, Research Fellow in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 329, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4098 Email: tim.green@ucl.ac.uk
Speech processing for cochlear implants; pitch perception in cochlear implant users; auditory attention, especially in relation to frequency selectivity.
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Research Associate in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 330, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4235 Email: g.hilkhuysen@ucl.ac.uk
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PhD, Research Associate in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 328, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4091 Email: s.messaoud-galusi@ucl.ac.uk
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Research Associate in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 303, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0)20 7679 7405 Email: a.panton@ucl.ac.uk
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Research Fellow in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 329, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 2PF. Phone: +44 20 7679 4270 Email: k.skoruppa@ucl.ac.uk
Speech perception and language acquisition in deaf and hearing children,
Speech processing and phonological acquisition in children and adults
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in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7679 4093 Email: a.wagner@ucl.ac.uk
speech perception, language-specific listening, voice quality
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Honorary & Retired Staff
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BA, PhD, FRCSLT, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Email: e.abberton@ucl.ac.uk
Voice and intonation description and analysis in normal and disordered speech and hearing; interactive displays in the (re-) habilitation of speech and hearing disorders and in foreign language learning; speech perceptual and productive development in deaf children.
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BSc (Eng), PhD, Emeritus Professor of Experimental Phonetics in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Email: adrian.fourcin@ucl.ac.uk
Speech perception and production; Spoken Language Engineering.
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John Maidment,
in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
The history of /r/ in English phonology; how speech differs with rate of speaking; laryngeal characteristics of adults' speech directed toward children; phonology of (English) intonation; phonetics and phonology of Irish; ejectives: their occurrence and phonological patterning in the languages of the world.
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PhD, Visiting Professor in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Speech and Hearing Research Group (SPandH) Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK. Phone: +44 (0) 11422 21807 Email: r.k.moore@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Speech technology research and development.
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MA, PhD, FBA, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Email: j.wells@ucl.ac.uk
EFL-oriented English phonetics; phonetics in lexicography, including the investigation of speakers' pronunciation preferences, multilingual comparative phonetics: symbolization, notation; English accents.
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Research Students
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in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 326, Chandler House, University College London, Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4041 Email: chiacheng.fl86@nctu.edu.tw
Acoustic Features of Tonal Contraction in Mandarin
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in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Email: john.dawson@ucl.ac.uk
Phonetics of Greek EFL learners.
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in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 326, Chandler House, University College London, Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4041 Email: s.gates@ucl.ac.uk
Childhood speech perception deficits
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in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Phone: 07710269195 Email: d.hackman@ucl.ac.uk
Impact of first language on the acquisition of English intonation by adult refugees in London
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in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Email: joe.kim@ucl.ac.uk
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in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 326, Chandler House, University College London, Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4041 |
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in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Email: b.loveridge@ucl.ac.uk
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MA, MRes, BA, BSc in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 326, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London. WC1N 2PF. Phone: + 44 (0) 20 7669 4041 Email: k.mair@ucl.ac.uk
Research area: Auditory perception in autistic spectrum disorders
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Georgina Oliver,
in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
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in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 326, Chandler House, University College London, Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF. Phone: 0795 122 3226 Email: jin.k.park@ucl.ac.uk
HMM-Based Speech Synthesis
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Yasna Pereira Reyes ,
in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
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Student in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 326, Chandler House, University College London, Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4041 Email: m.pinet@ucl.ac.uk
L2 Speech perception
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Dong-jin Shin,
in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
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Mark Wibrow,
in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
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Cert(ES)TESOL, MPhil, MA, BA in Dept. Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
Address: Room 326, Chandler House, University College London, Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF. Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 4041 Email: wl.wu@ucl.ac.uk
Cantonese phonetics; tone and intonation
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