2016 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians

Members of the Department of English Language & Linguistics will be presenting papers at the 2016 biennial Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians to be held at Lancaster University from 30 March to 1 April 2016.

Professor Amalia Arvaniti, Head of Department, will be speaking on ‘Uptalk in Standard Southern British English’ with Madeleine Atkins, a graduate from Kent’s BA (Hons) in English Language & Linguistics. Amalia will also co-present with Hae-Sung Jeon (University of Central Lancashire) on ‘The Iambic-trochaic Law in Korean, Greek and English’.

Dr Tamara Rathcke, Lecturer in Linguistics, will co-present on ‘Dialectal Variation in the Interplay of Segmental and Prosodic Timing’ with Rachel Smith (University of Glasgow).

PhD students from the Department will also be presenting posters on their research at the Colloquium. Graduate Teaching Assistant Ishrat Rehman will present her poster on ‘A Phonetic and Phonological Investigation of Urdu Vowels’, and Sumio Kobayashi will present his poster on ‘The Influence of Mother Tongue and Musical Experience on Rhythm Perception’. Both Ishrat and Sumio are research students on the PhD in Linguistics at Kent.

For details of the full programme, please see the PDF available at the Lancaster University site here: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/phonetics/files/2015/08/BAAP-programme.pdf