| Overview. A
member of staff in Speech and Hearing Sciences serves as Director
of Studies for each postgraduate student, and there is a second
supervisor, usually from SHS. The list of current students
shows only current directors of study of students at QMU,
and does not include current external supervision of PhD students
at the University of Edinburgh nor completed work.
Areas of interest. To give a fuller picture,
we list here some topics of particular interest suitable for
graduate research leading to a post-graduate degree in the
future, reflecting the particularly interests of staff. These
are offered as suggestions rather than restrictions.
| Emeritus Prof Bill Hardcastle |
Theoretical: Phonetics Serial ordering and motor
control of speech production; dynamics of articulatory
movements; coarticulation; and sensory feedback control
of speech.
Physiological: aerodynamic and perceptual explanations
for phonological universals. Articulatory:acoustic correlations
in speech production.
Descriptive Phonetics: Cross-language study of fricative
sounds (acoustic, aerodynamic and articulatory features).
Cross-language study of connected speech processes including
coarticulation
Speech Pathology: Diagnosis, assessment and rehabilitation
of persons with phonetic and phonological disorders
(cleft palate, dysarthric, apraxic, hearing-impaired)
using instrumental phonetic techniques. Aerodynamic
and physiological correlates of disorders of fluency
(particularly stuttering and cluttering). Linguistic
profiling of stuttering behaviour. Clinical applications
of Electropalatography. Abnormal sibilant production. |
| Dr Janet Beck* |
Developmental speech disorders; experimental phonetics;
intra-oral cancer; normal and disordered voice quality;
phonetics teaching; nonverbal communication.
Previous and current students: Nairn, Ellis,
Matthews, Carroll, Grichkovtsova,
Bormans, Rodger, DePlacido.
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| Dr Ann Clark* |
Specific Language Impairment, non-word repetition, developmental
dyslexia |
| Dr Jo White |
Audiology |
| Dr Helen Kelly* |
Clinical Linguistics |
| Dr Robin Lickley |
Psycholinguistics, speech production, speech errors, self-monitoring, self-repair, disfluency, stammering/stuttering, perception of spontaneous speech, prosody.
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| Dr Sara Wood* |
Speech Disorders, Instrumental Analysis, Speech and
Language Therapy, Down Syndrome, Hearing Impairment. |
| Dr Jocelynne Watson* |
Auditory Perception and Memory, Phonological/Phonetic
Acquisition, Genetics of Speech and Language, Specific
Language Impairment, Computer Involvement with Speech
and Language Disorder. |
| Dr Natalia Zharkova |
Ultrasound Tongue Imaging, Coarticulation |
| Prof James M Scobbie |
The integration of phonetic, phonological, sociolinguistic
and lexical systems in adult language, and the acquisition
of these systems.
Allophony and non-contrastive aspects of phonology,
external sandhi, the constraint-based and non-derivational
nature of phonology, vernacular speech varieties in
Scotland. Gradient, fuzzy phonology.
Pseudo-neutralisation (“covert
contrast”), and other covert phenomena in child speech, both normal and disordered, and adult speech
Laboratory Phonology more generally, the phonetics/phonology interface.
a. Articulatory phonetic analysis (using EMA, EPG and
Ultrasound).
b. Acoustic phonetic analysis.
Previous and current students: Matthews, Mayo, Mullooly,
Fuchs, Gordeeva, Zharkova, de Leeuw, Bormans, Mattl, Cotton, Cleland. |
| Dr Sue Peppé |
Prosody and intonation: theory, assessment, intervention, cross-linguistic exponency, diachronic change |
| Dr Felix Schaeffler |
Phonetics, Speech Technology, Voice |
| Dr Joan Ma |
Phonetics |
| Dr Sonja Schaeffler |
Phonetics, Articulatory Phonetics, Psycholinguistics |
| also more generally: |
Speech Science and Engineering, Speech Therapy technology,
EPG, EMA, ultrasound and multichannel articulatory analysis. |
*Registered Speech and Language Therapists
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