Event type:

In person

Date & time:

14 Jan 2021, 16:00 – 17:00

Speech Science Forum 14th January - Dr. James Brand

Please join us on the 14th of January for Dr. James Brand's talk "Identifying systematic co-variation of vocalic variables across speakers of New Zealand English"

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Speech Science Forum 14th January - Dr. James Brand

14 Jan 2021, 16:00 – 17:00

Dr. James Brand

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

University of Canterbury - New Zealand Institute of Langauge, Brain and Behaviour

Dr. Brand is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the NZILLB - University of Canterbury in New Zealand, researching the sociolinguistic factors of sound change.

Previously, he have worked as a Post-doc in the Embodied Cognition Lab at Lancaster University.

James completed my PhD at Lancaster University under the supervision of Prof Padraic Monaghan and Dr Peter Walker

Research Interests

How do cognitive biases shape our language? James' research focuses on the different ways that our language is shaped by the brain, addressing how language acquisition and use can explain many fundamental properties of language. He employs a variety of experimental techniques (such as cross-situational, artificial language and iterated learning paradigms) which is complimented by large scale, corpus based analyses, in order to produce robust and comprehensive empirical evidence for his research questions. This approach is highly multidisciplinary, with the aim being to answer and generate questions that have implications for areas of psychology, linguistics and the cognitive sciences.

Further information

Ticketing

Open

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Dr. Antony Scott Trotter

Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Science

t.trotter@ucl.ac.uk