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	Bronwen Evans Lecturer bronwen.evans@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4089	Research: Experimental Phonetics.
	Andy Faulkner Head of Research Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences/Reader a.faulkner@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4234	Research: 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.
	Valerie Hazan Professor of Speech Sciences v.hazan@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4076	Research: 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.
	Mark Huckvale Senior Lecturer m.huckvale@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4087	Research: Speech and language technology as a means to model human language processing and to build a conversational interface to computers.
	Paul Iverson Reader in Speech Sciences p.iverson@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4237	Research: Speech perception, language learning and development, cochlear implants, musical timbre
	Stuart Rosen Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences s.rosen@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4077	Research: Perceiving speech in noise; The interface between hearing and speech; Auditory processing in developmental disorders (dyslexia and specific language impairment); Hearing impairment; Functional neuro-imaging of speech processing; Improving speech processing schemes for users of cochlear implants.
	Jyrki Tuomainen Senior Lecturer j.tuomainen@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4214	Research: Audio-visual speech perception and attention; processing of verbs and nouns; speech motor disorders.
	Yi Xu Reader in Speech Sciences yi.xu@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4082	Research: Mechanisms of speech production; melodic aspect of speech; intonation modeling, synthesis and recognition; and speech perception as it is related to production.

Researchers

	Tim Green Senior Research Fellow tim.green@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4098	Research: Speech processing for cochlear implants; pitch perception in cochlear implant users; auditory attention, especially in relation to frequency selectivity.
	Gaston Hilkhuysen Research Associate g.hilkhuysen@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4235	Research: Centre for Law Enforcement Audio Research (CLEAR) The CLEAR project aims to create a centre of excellence in tools and techniques for the cleaning of poor-quality audio recordings of speech.
	Michèle Pettinato Research Associate m.pettinato@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4235	Research: The development of fine phonetic detail during late childhood and early adolescence. A communicative task in noisy and clear conditions is being used to explore how the ability to adapt speech to the listener's need develops between the ages 9-14.
	Santitham Prom-on Newton Fellow santitham.prom-on@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 207 679 4094	Research: Modelling speech prosody based on communicative function and articulatory dynamics
	Katrin Skoruppa +44 (0) 20 7679 4270 k.skoruppa@ucl.ac.uk	Research:The linguistic development of children with hearing impairment using conventional hearing aids or cochlear implants. How various acoustic cues help children with and without hearing impairment in building up their native syntax and vocabulary, and in the role of these acoustic cues in allowing children to segment the otherwise continuous speech stream into words. Studies will involve both behavioural and electro-physiological (EEG) measurements.
	Anita Wagner + 44 (0) 20 7679 4093 a.wagner@ucl.ac.uk	Research Interests:speech perception, language-specific listening, voice quality

Emeritus

	Evelyn Abberton Honorary Senior Research Fellow e.abberton@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4227	Research: 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.
	Michael Ashby Honorary Senior Lecturer m.ashby@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4090	Research: 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).
	Adrian Fourcin Emeritus Professor of Experimental Phonetics a.fourcin@ucl.ac.uk	Research: Speech perception and production; Spoken Language Engineering.
	Jill House Teaching Fellow j.house@ucl.ac.uk	Research: 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.
	John Maidment Retired j.maidment@phon.ucl.ac.uk	Research: 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.
	Roger Moore Visiting Professor r.k.moore@dcs.shef.ac.uk	Research: Speech technology research and development.
	John Wells Emeritus Professor of Phonetics j.wells@ucl.ac.uk	Research: EFL-oriented English phonetics; phonetics in lexicography, including the investigation of speakers' pronunciation preferences, multilingual comparative phonetics: symbolization, notation; English accents.