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Michael Ashby

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Location:Room 323, Chandler House,
2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF
Telephone: + 44 20 7679 4090 (x24090)
Email: m.ashby@ucl.ac.uk
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Research Interests

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).

Research Projects

Taught Courses

Current Students

  • Dorothea Hackman
  • Young Shin Kim

Publications

    2007

    • Dellwo, V., Huckvale, M., Ashby, M. (2007). How is individuality expressed in voice? An introduction to speech production & description for speaker classification. In Müller, C. (Ed.). Speaker Classification I ( pp.1-20). Berlin: Springer Verlag.

    2006

    • Ashby, M. (2006). Prosody and idioms in English. Journal of Pragmatics 38(10), 1580-1597 doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2005.03.018. Author URL
    • Kim, Y., S, A., M, (2006). Denasalization in Korean. BAAP (British Association of Academic Phoneticians). Edinburgh:
    • Mackay, K., Ashby, M. (2006). Prosodic cues to idiomatic and literal interpretation in English. BAAP 2006 (British Association of Academic Phoneticians). Edinburgh:

    2005

    • Ashby, M. (2005). Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English. Seventh Edition. (7)Oxford: OUP.
    • Ashby, M. (2005). Phonetic classification. In Brown, K. (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Second Edition (2 ed. pp.364-372). Elsevier.
    • Ashby, M., Figueroa-Clark, M., Seo, E., Yanagisawa, K. (2005). ). Innovations in practical phonetics teaching and learning. PTLC 2005. Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference. UCL.
    • Ashby, M., Figueroa-Clark, M., Seo, Y., K, (2005). Innovations in practical phonetics teaching and learning. Proceedings of PTLC2005(Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference). UCL:
    • Ashby, M., Maidment, J. (2005). Introducing Phonetic Science. Cambridge: CUP.

    2003

    • Ashby, M. (2003). Revising the phonetics of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona:

    2002

    • Ashby, M. (Ed.) (2002). Pronunciation in EFL. The Guide to Good Practice for learning and teaching in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
    • Ashby, M., Graham, J. (2002). Practical Pronunciation. BBC World Service.

    2001

    • Ashby, M., various, (Eds.) (2001). Oxford Idioms Dictionary for Learners of English. Oxford: OUP.
    • Ashby, M., various, (Eds.) (2001). Oxford Phrasal Verbs Dictionary for Learners of English. Oxford: OUP.
    • Ashby, M., various, (Eds.) (2001). Oxford Student's Dictionary of English. Oxford: OUP.

    2000

    • Ashby, M. (Ed.) (2000). Stress levels in the transcription of English. English Phonetics (Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan) 3, 23-29
    • Ashby, M. (2000). Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English. Sixth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    1999

    • Ashby, M. (1999). Oxford Guide to British and American Culture for Learners of English.

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