LLSD People
| Name | Research | |
|---|---|---|
| Director Link | Andrew Nevins Professor of Linguistics a.nevins@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4278 Website | Research: Phonological and morphological theory; Improved empirical foundations of linguistic data collection. Recent research includes: Whistled languages; Conjunct agreement; Reduplication; Ergativity; Diminutive formation; Clitic restrictions. |
| Co-DirectorLink | James White Lecturer in Phonology j.c.white@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4288 Website | Research: Phonology; Phonetics; Language acquisition; Experimental approaches. |
| OrganiserLink | Florian Breit Research Student florian.breit.12@ucl.ac.uk Website | Research: Segmental/melodic representation; Element Theory; Initial consonant mutation; Welsh linguistics; Laryngeal contrast in nasals. |
| Lab Members | ||
| Link | John Harris Professor of Linguistics john.harris@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4042 Website | Research: Phonological theory; Phonetics-phonology interface; Phonological disorder; Variation and change in English. |
| Link | Clémence Alméras Visiting Student Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales clemencealmeras@gmail.com | Research: Psycholinguistics; Phonological acquisition in adults; (Modulations of) phonetic entrainment in interactions; Learnability experiments (artificial grammar learning). My work here is on learnability of under-represented phonological patterns (i.e saltatory patterns). |
| Link | Faith Chiu Research Student faith.chiu.11@ucl.ac.uk Website | Research: The neurobiological basis of speech perception, spoken word recognition and speech processing; Phonology and its interfaces; Segmental and prosodic phonetics. |
| Link | Elizabeth Eden Research Student elizabeth.eden.11@ucl.ac.uk | Research: Measuring language distance through phonological parameters and constraint ranking; Historical Linguistics; Corpus collection and compilation; Phonetics and Phonology. |
| Link | Sam Green Research Student sam.green.10@ucl.ac.uk | Research: Phonological development in infants, and language acquisition in general; phonetics; corpora (use and creation); psycholinguistics; models and methods of learning. |
| Link | Nick Neasom Research Student nicholas.neasom.10@ucl.ac.uk | Research: Phonological theory, in particular synchronic and diachronic chain shifts; phonological typology; learnability experiments. |
| Past Lab Members/Visitors | ||
| Link | Dinah Baer-Henney Research Associate University of Düsseldorf dinah.baer-henney@hhu.de | Research: Phonological acquisition; Acquisition of morphophonology; Psycholinguistics; Artificial language learning; Phonetics and Phonology; Frames in phonology. |
| Link | Márcia Cristina do Carmo Substitute Lecturer Federal University of Lavras Márcia was a post-doc here from 2014 to 2015. marcia.carmo@ucl.ac.uk | Research: Phonological variation in Brazilian Portuguese; Vowel raising; Sociolinguistics, Phonology, Phonetics. |
| Link | Thanasis Soultatis Research Student Thanasis was a Research Student here from 2011 to 2014. athanasios.soultatis.11@ucl.ac.uk | Research: Syllable structure and repair strategies in modern Greek dialects. |
| Link | Giorgos Markopoulos Research Student University of Thessaloníki Giorgos was a visiting research student here in 2014. | Research: Phonological realisation of morphosyntactic features, with a focus on Greek nominal inflection; Morphology, Phonology, Greek dialects. |
| Link | Kevin Tang Postdoctoral Associate Yale University Kevin was a Research Student here and he was the Organiser of LLSD from 2011 to 2015. kevin.tang.10@ucl.ac.uk Website | Research: Investigation of naturalistic "Slips of the Ear" using statistical and computational modelling, particularly with English and Chinese languages; Corpus collection and compilation; Constrain models of diachrony with synchronic data; Psycholinguistics; Speech (mis)perception; Speech segmentation; Phonetics and Phonology. |