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Clinical Audiology, Speech and Language (CASL) Research Centre

Here are some active projects and contact people. This area is under construction at the moment and doesn't reflect ongoing research fully, nor the extent to which projects overlap, nor some of our older work.

Research Groups - listed below

Clinical Technology - Language Acquisition - Laboratory Phonology - Articulatory Kinematics - Speech Technology - Speech Pathology - Bilingualism - Coarticulation - Speech Errors and Disfluency - Prosody and Intonation- Specific Language Impairment

Research Methodologies - links to mini-sites

Electropalatography (EPG) - Electromagenetic Articulography (EMA) at the Edinburgh Speech Production Facility- Ultrasound Tongue Imaging (UTI) - Motion Capture (VICON)

Clinical Topics - links to mini-sites

Prosody in Autism and Asperger's Syndrome - Down's Syndrome - Cleft Palate -

Industrial Collaborator - external link

Articulate Instruments Ltd

Group Project and links	Contact
Clinical Technologies
FitVoice and Telespeech	Dr Janet Beck or Dr Felix Schaeffler
Clinical evaluation of Fast ForWord	Dr Jocelynne Watson
Ultrasound Tongue Imaging , EPG	Prof James M Scobbie or Dr Sara Wood
Language Acquisition
Consonant Clusters in children's speech	Prof James M Scobbie
Bilingualism and second language learning	Dr Sonja Schaeffler
Coarticulation	Dr Natalia Zharkova
Laboratory Phonology
Phonology-phonetics interface	Prof James M Scobbie
Sociophonetics	Dr Eleanor Lawson
Scottish English	Dr Eleanor Lawson or Prof James M Scobbie
Articulatory Phonetics
Speech Errors and Dysfluency	Dr Robin Lickley
EPG-based research	Dr Sara Wood or Dr Joanne Cleland
Multichannel corpora	Dr Alan Wrench, Prof James M Scobbie
Ultrasound for tongue imaging	Dr Nigel Hewlett or Prof James M Scobbie
Coarticulation	Dr Natasha Zharkova
Speech Technology
Multichannel phonetic analysis	Dr Alan Wrench
Ultrasound, EMA and EPG Development	Dr Alan Wrench
Language Pathology
Genetics of specific language impairment (SLI) in children - SLI Consortium	Dr Jocelynne Watson or Dr Ann Clark
Speech Pathology
CLEFTNET - cleft palate research	Dr Sara Wood
Vowel Disorder Clinical Assessment	Dr Jocelynne Watson
Parkinson's Disease and Apraxia	Prof Bill Hardcastle or Dr Maria Wolters
Prosodic Ability in Children with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome	Dr Sue Peppé or Dr Joanne Cleland
Down's Syndrome	Dr Joanne Cleland or Dr Sara Wood
Voice, Prosody and Intonation
Pitch Range	Dr Felix Schaeffler
Vocal Profile Analysis	Dr Janet Beck

last modified 7/12/11

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