SSRC: grants & funding

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2009 (£___) [back to top]

• "Speakability Computer Project: Using computers to enhance the lives of those with aphasia". Grant awarded to Prof James Law (CIHR) and Dr Helen Kelly (SHS) by Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland (LTCAS) in partnership with the Scottish government. Starting 01/10/09, £43,560.
  This is an innovative user-led project, with the main researcher being Dr Helen Kelly. Funding from LTCAS aims  to support work encouraging people living with long term conditions to learn more about the management of their condition, and to be become active partners in their own care.  The project aims to develop a programme to support people living with Aphasia to learn to use computers and technology to increase their social networks.
• 'Do I sound stressed?’ QMU MDRF support to Felix Schaeffler, Janet Beck, Karen Goodall, Michelle Hipwell and Emad Al-Dujaili (£1,000).
• Voice Health Check Tool (Felix Schaeffler and Janet Beck) QMU KT funding (£4,500)
• Mobile aural rehabilitation programme (Christine de Placido, Felix Schaeffler and Janet Beck) QMU KT Funding (£16,390)

2008 (~£270,000 fEC) [back to top]

• "Open Mouthed or Stiff Upper Lip? Exploring language-Specific Settings in English German Bilinguals" Grant awarded to Sonja Schaeffler (PI), Ineke Mennen and James M Scobbie (RES-000-22-3032) For period 01/09/2008 to 30/04/2010. £82,549, fEC £99,164

  Dr. Sonja Schaeffler has been awarded almost £80,000 from the ESRC to lead a research project exploring language-specific articulatory settings in English-German bilinguals. The results of the project will help to determine whether empirical evidence can be found that bilingual speakers keep their two languages apart by using their articulators in a different manner for each language. The research hopes to reveal important principles of language-specific speech production and to establish a solid basis for further research on articulatory settings.
  
  There are various reasons for why languages sound different. Languages differ, for example, in their vowel and consonant inventories, their realisation of individual sounds, and their prosody. However, there is growing evidence that distinctions are made on an even more basic level, namely in the way speakers of a language set up their articulators, ie their tongue, their lip and their jaw - in speech, and in the preparation for speech. This phenomenon is often referred to as language-specific articulatory settings.
  
  The current project will investigate German-English bilinguals to determine whether bilingual speakers keep their two languages apart by using their articulators in a different manner for each language. To this end acoustic as well as articulatory data will be gathered - the latter employing Ultrasound (to determine the overall shape of the tongue), the motion-capture system Vicon (to determine the position and movement of the jaw and the lips) and Electropalatography (to determine contact patterns of the tongue with the roof of the mouth).
  
  The aim is to reveal important principles of language-specific speech production, to refine the methodology proposed in recent literature (most notably Wilson, 2006) and to establish a solid basis for further research on articulatory settings.

• "An ultrasound study of lingual coarticulation in children and adults". ESRC Research Grant awarded to Natalia Zharkova (PI), Nigel Hewlett and William Hardcastle (RES-000-22-2833, £97,919.66 fEC). For period 01/05/2008-30/04/2009.
• "Assessment and treatment of impaired speech motor control in children with Down's Syndrome". Baily Thomas Charitable Fund awarded £40,000, 2008.
• “Fine phonetic detail in the specification of grammar: exploring differences in articulatory settings across languages”. British Academy Research Grant RG-48460, May-Aug 2008. (£5,600) to Sonja Schaeffler and Jim Scobbie.
• The Princess Alice Research Scholarship, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK was awarded to Esther de Leeuw (£500).
• A Santander Research Travel Award, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK of £500 to Esther de Leeuw.
• A German-Canadian Studies Foundation award from the University of Winnipeg, Canada. to Esther de Leuuw for £1250.
• Voice Health Check Tool: funding for prototype development to Felix Schaeffler and Janet Beck from Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian, £25,575.

2007 [back to top] (£117,000 fEC )

• Sonja Schaeffler [Biersack] "The phonetic details of speech variation and their impact on listener comprehension and attention." ESRC Post-doctoral fellowship 05/2007- 06/2008. PTA-026-27-1465 (£71,067)
• "The use and misuse of auditory profiles." awarded to Chris DePlacido (PI), Pauline Campbell and Maria Wolters. Centre for Older Persons Agenda £14,990. For period 01/10/07 to 30/09/08.
• "Dissociation of segments and intonation in the production of second language speech." British Academy, £7,457. Awarded to Christiane Ulbrich & Ineke Mennen. For period 01/02/2007 to 31/07/2008
• Esther de Leeuw received approx £2,500 German DAAD scholarship, for 3 months research associated with her PhD thesis.
• Voice Health Check Tool: support for this project to Janet Beck and Felix Schaeffler came from QMU KT fund ( £5,962 ) and Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian, £14,920.

2006 [back to top] (£541,369, fEC)

• James M Scobbie & Jane Stuart-Smith Looking variation and change in the mouth : developing the sociolinguistic potential of Ultrasound Tongue Imaging. ESRC Research Grant RES-000-22-2032, Jan 2007-Mar 2008. (£99,867 fEC) [ abstract]
• "Intellegibility of Synthetic Speech: Comparison Between Older and Younger Subjects." awarded to Maria Wolters (PI), Christine DePlacido and Pauline Campbell, SPARC £17,000. For period 01/09/06 to 31/08/07.
• Mariam Hartinger (Berlin) will be coming to QM on a German Research Council grant, with Mentor Bill Hardcastle, of £50,000 starting 1/10/2006. The project is “Timing and articulation of speakers with Parkinson’s Disease”.
• “Survey of communication support needs” awarded to James Law (PI, CIHR), Anna van der Gaag, Janet Beck, Bill Hardcastle, Andrew McGregor. Scottish Executive Social Research Group £19,740. For period 17/7/06 to 13/10/06.
• “An investigation of dysprosody in Foreign Accent Syndrome”, collaborative grant awarded to Ineke Mennen, Anja Lowit (Strathclyde), Nick Miller (Newcastle). British Academy £7,371. For period 1/10/06 to 30/09/07.
• EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) have funded An Edinburgh Speech Production Facility, a joint project with Linguistics and CSTR at University of Edinburgh. QM component is EP/E016359/1 attracting £102,986 fEC funding. University of EDinburgh's component is approx £600,000 (EP/E01609X/1) and they will provide ongoing support and infrastructure for the duration of the laboaratory's lifespan. The porject is likely to begin April 01 2007 for 3 years. Hardcastle, Scobbie and Lickley are QM joint applicants, and Dr ALice Turk is lead PI at Edinburgh. This grant will fund the replacement of the QM/Edinburgh joint EMA/EPG speech production laboratory, and will now be housed in the new Informatics building in Crichton St. The project will collect articulatory data captured during spontaneous discourse. Contact Jim Scobbie.
  
• The ESRC have funded a project entitled 'Cross-language differences in pitch range'. Principal Investigator is Dr Ineke Mennen, and Dr Gerry Docherty at Newcastle is a co-grant holder. Dates 18/09/2006 to 17/10/2008, (£97,256 fEC). RES-000-22-1858. Research Fellow Dr Felix Schaeffler.
• The Down Syndrome Association has funded a PhD position (£58,000), filled by Rebecca Rodger to work on Voice Quality in Down Syndrome.
• Natalia Zharkova has been awarded a one year ESRC post-doctoral fellowship (PTA-026-27-1268: total funding under Full Economic Costing £74,108.50) for a study "Analysing Speech Variability with Ultrasound and EPG", which builds on her PhD research - cross-linguistic investigation of coarticulation with ultrasound (with Russian and British English data). Her mentor will be William Hardcastle. Natalia hopes to begin the fellowship at the end of 2006 after completing her PhD.
  
• QMUC is a joint partner in the Edinburgh Speech Science and Technology (EdSST) interdisciplinary training programme in speech science and technology, which features a strong interaction between the two disciplines. It is funded under the European Commission Marie Curie programme, under the Early Stage Research Training (EST) scheme. It runs for 4 years from January 2006. EdSST is based at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) in partnership with Queen Margaret University College (QMUC) Speech Science Research Centre (SSRC). CSTR brings the project a strong base in speech technology, and SSRC provides a strong base in speech science. The overall objective of the project is the development of an interdisciplinary research training programme for "early stage researchers" working towards a PhD. We aim both to use findings from speech science to drive advances in speech technology, and to employ modern signal processing and machine learning techniques in speech science. The project is also concerned with developing improved speech technology solutions for people with a range of cognitive, speech, and hearing abilities. Five PhD studentships will be awarded in 2005, with supervisors from both SSRC and CSTR, and shorter visiting scholarships will be offered in later years. For information, contact Dr Maria Wolters.
• The QM Knowledge Transfer Fund awarded £15,041 to Janet Beck and Bill Hardcastle for a project "Development of a computerized voice health-check for the work-place" The project runs for 3 months May -July 2006.
  

2005 [back to top] (£475,550)

• SHS has been awarded £121,369 under the SRIF-3 SHEFC Strategic Research Infrastructure Grant scheme for a grant entitled “Facilities for integrated vocal tract, face, and upper limb movement and acoustic energy data capture, and (inter)disciplinary speech and functional motor control analysis”. Principal Investigator is Dr James M Scobbie.
• The MRC has awarded £347,948 for three years from 1st Oct 2005 till 30th Sept 2008 to Prof Bill Hardcastle, principal investigator for the project "Assessment and treatment of impaired speech motor control in children with Down's Syndrome". Investigators are Dr Sara Wood (SSRC), Professor Jennifer Wishart (Special Education, Edinburgh University). Joanne McCann and Claire Timmins have been appointed as research fellows (see people news).
• Lianne Carroll has been award funding of approximately £24,000 to cover her PhD fees by Friends of the Sick Kids, a charity based in Edinburgh to support research and treatment. The funding is to assist her in her research into Autism and Theory of Mind.
• Dr Nigel Hewlett and Yolanda Vazquez Alvarez were awarded an EPSRC travel grant of £6,788 to enable Yolanda to undertake 6 months of research at University of California at Berkeley. The grant will cover Yolanda's travel and subsistance. She will be working there in the phonology lab from 1st of April 2005 with Prof. John Ohala. The title of the research project is: 'Incorporating aerodynamic modelling into vocal tract imaging'.

2004 [back to top] (£220,320)

• ESRC Research Grant to Dr. Fiona Gibbon & Dr. Sue Peppe. The award, of £189,924 for salary, costs, institutional overheads and equipment is for a two year grant, beginning April 2004, on "Prosodic Ability in Children with Asperger's Syndrome". Grant number RES-000-23-0555 (see http://www.regard.ac.uk to search for details). For the web pages of this and related projects, click on AUTISM on our sls.qmuc.ac.uk home page index.
• Olga Gordeeva has been awarded an ESRC post-doctoral fellowship (PTA-026-27-0368: total funding £28,896.41) for a study "Sound Structure Learning in Bilingual and Monolingual Language Acquisition", which builds on her PhD research into what happens to phonetic detail of when children learn two languages which differ in the way the sounds are organised and sound (in Russian and Scottish English). Olga hopes to begin the fellowship in April 2005 (ending 30.11.2006). More details on the post-doc scheme can be found at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/postgradfunding/posdoctorial_fellowship_scheme2.asp and for more details of the project, see http://www.regard.ac.uk to search for details.
• QMUC Small Research Award; £1500 to Duncan Robb, Ben Matthews and Ineke Mennen, for the project "Code-switching in the written language of BSL [British Sign Language] users".

• CLEFTNET UK - BBC Children in Need and the Henry Smith Charity. BBC Children in Need have awarded £64,000 to the CLEFTNET team. This, in addition to the £30,000 award from the Henry Smith Charity over two years, will enable the development of CLEFTNET UK, from early 2004. This is a bigger and more ambitious project than CLEFTNET Scotland, which will involve all regional centres throughout the UK who would like to participate. It will operate in a similar but more sophisticated way to the original project and aims to provide a UK-wide EPG therapy service for people with cleft palate. Also, the funding will enable the creation of a unique and substantial database of cleft palate speech and treatment outcomes. The restricted website for collaborators is http://www.cleftnet.org.uk. Altogether, the project will employ 2 researchers.
• SRIF Research Investment Fund. Speech and Language Sciences has secured a second Science Research Investment Fund grant of £140,000 for the period April 2004 - March 2006. This will be spent on refurbishing and re-equipping our speech science laboratories, including the development of our facility for using ultrasound to image tongue movements.
• British Stammering Association. Robin Lickley was awarded £1320 by the British Stammering Association for a Vacation Scholarship for Mary Eyston (second year undergraduate) to work on a project "Time management in speech production within dialogue: a comparison of hesitation strategies between adults who do and who do not stammer".
• QMUC Small Research Grant Funds. Awards were made to Watson, Beck, Lickley and Scobbie.

• QM Small Projects Fund. Fiona Gibbon has been awarded £1000 from the QM Small Projects Fund for work on dyspraxia with Larry Shriberg, USA.
• Ben Matthews has been awarded £987 from the QMUC Small Research Grant Fund for a project titled "Continuing development of vowel systems in Scottish Children"
• The Scottish Executive awarded £49,240 for a review of therapies in collaboration with Lothian Universities Hospital NHS Trust and the University of Edinburgh. Jois Stansfield is a member of the cross-faculty group conducting this research.

• Dr James M Scobbie has been awarded an ESRC personal research fellowship for 3 years from October 2001 - August 2004). The fellowship is entitled "Linguistic Sound Systems: Phonetics, Phonology and their Interface", and funding is for £144,797. During the fellowship he will draw together previous work on disordered and normal acquisition, theoretical phonology, laboratory phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics and sociolinguistic variation and jointly and individually publish papers in these areas.
• SLS have been awarded funding of £135,438 grant from the Chief Scientist Office for a 2-year project entitled "Prosodic Ability in Children with Autism" to start in April 2002. The grant holders are Dr Fiona Gibbon and Dr Susan Peppé from QMUC, and Dr Anne O'Hare and Ms Marion Rutherford from Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Sick Children. For more details, click here.
• Dr Fiona Gibbon has been awarded £31,000 by Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland, to fund the TELESPEECH project. Some of the funding is being combined with funding previously announced from the Gannochy Trust to fund Dr Sara Wood as clinical research fellow with a focus on clinical use of EPG in the Forth Valley Health Board area. The rest of the funding is being used for more work on the development of CLEFTNET.
• Led by Dr Fiona Gibbon, Director of Research, the dept has been awarded £140,000 by SHEFC under the SRIF (Strategic Research Infrastructure Fund). The funding is over 2 years from April 2002. We intend to transform our Speech Production Laboratory into a facility capable of the integrated analysis of speech and facial gesture, and open up further opportunities for the study of orofacial control.
• Queen Margaret University College Small Research Grants Fund has awarded two grants, to Dr Ineke Mennen (£1380) for "A pilot study to help identify 'phonetic similarity' in L2 learning". and to Dr Beck & Prof Laver (details to be supplied.)
• SHEFC Research Infrastructure Project. "Research Infrastructure in Scottish Higher Education: Opportunities for the Future." QMUC is currently hosting a six-month study into research infrastructure
  in Scottish Universities funded by SHEFC (£110,000). The study is under the overall
  co-ordinaton of Professors Bill Hardcastle and John Laver and Professor
  Hardcastle will convene the Scottish Universities Research Policy
  Consortium to steer the work. The study aims to review the strengths and
  opportunities of the Scottish reearch base in HEIs in terms of: the quality and quantity of its infrastructure
  the needs of different fields for research infrastructure (continuing and new)
  opportunities for elective investment in new research infrastructure
  the mechanisms for achieving such an infrastructure
  The project hopes to present its report to SHEFC by August 2002.

• The Nuffield Foundation. An award of £133,000 (2000-2002) to Carmel Lum & Richard Cox (University of Sussex), in conjunction with J.C. Marshall (University of Oxford), B. Pentland (University of Edinburgh), M. Snowling (University of York). Project title "PATSy-An extension into 3 new domains". This is a 2-year collaborative project that will see PATSy extended into 3 new domains; clinical/cognitive neuropsychology, medical rehabilitation and childhood dyslexia.
• Gannochy Trust. £55,000 awarded by this charitable trust for research to QMUC for research into the use of instrumental phonetic analysis for the resolution of intractable childhood speech disorders. The grant will employ a speech and language therapist for one day a week from November 2000 for nine months, experimental and computing support for one day a week for six months and a phonetician for three days a week from March 2001 for six months. The aim is to transfer recordings from Falkirk/Stirling area to QMUC for analysis and feedback to the therapy on an ongoing basis. Contact: Dr. James M. Scobbie, QMUC.
• The British Council. British-German Academic Research Collaboration Programme (ARC). "Phonetic Aspects of Glossectomy Surgery in Patients with Oral Cancer". Alan Wrench and international group of researchers and clinicians at QMUC and the Technische Universität München were awarded £3480 to fund four seminars at QM and in Germany over two years from June 2000.
• Queen Margaret University College Initiative Grant £1500 to Carmel Lum and N. Mitchell. Project title "Effects of age and education on syntax in Cinderella and Princess Diana stories".
• McRoberts Charitable Trust have awarded £12,000 for further work on CLEFTNET 2, November 2000, to Dr Fiona Gibbon.
  

• Chest, Heart & Stroke Association
  Award of £3000 to Carmel Lum. The project is entitled "Computer-based auditory discrimination training." This grant funded the development of software for the purposes of a controlled therapy study of a patient with auditory perceptual deficits.

• InterPHACE: Internet Links for Phonetic Analysis in Clinical Education
  Janet Beck was awarded £94,131 from BT's UDA scheme (University Development Award) to establish links between QMC and external speech and language therapy clinics. There will be a 2 year RA position associated with the grant.
  
  This collaborative project addresses the need for Speech and Language Therapy (S&LT) students to develop skills in analysis of a wide range of speech disorders and apply these to clinical practice. It aims to establish a novel form of curriculum design and delivery, by providing college staff and students with on-line access to speech from clients in S&LT clinics. Students will undertake phonetic analysis of speech, and engage in video-conferenced discussions with S&L therapists. This will enhance education and continuous professional development (CPD) in phonetics and strengthen partnerships between the workplace and education. A data-base of clinical speech material will be developed as a teaching/learning resource. This offers a genuine opportunity for enhancing study for students and clinicians (in terms of CPD). Collaboration is with two hospitals and a clinic and matched funding will be provided by the University and partners. (Applicants: Bill Hardcastle, Janet Beck, Liz Dean, Kate Morss). This was one of only six awards made from 86 universities that applied.
  See http://www.bteducation.com/sac_bt_education/htm/higher/uda.htm and
  http://www.education.bt.com/udasum97.htm
• Development of multimedia system for teaching clinical assessment to students of speech and language therapy.
  Carmel Lum was awarded £60,626 by the Nuffield Foundation. (Applicants: Carmel Lum and Richard Cox, University of Edinburgh.) July 1998- October 1999. There will be a 1 year RA position.

• SHEFC: Scottish Centre for Research into Speech Disability
  The Department of Speech and Language Sciences, Queen Margaret College, has been awarded £320,000 by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC), under its Research Development Funding scheme, to establish the Scottish Centre for Research into Speech Disability. The Centre will be based within the Department and will be a focus for high level, interdisciplinary research and clinical work. The Centre director will be Professor Bill Hardcastle, Head of the Department. The clinical co-ordinator responsible for the speech and language therapy services will be Dr Elizabeth Dean. The Centre Research Advisory Committee will bring together professionals and researchers from the fields of speech and language therapy, speech science, linguistics, psychology, medicine, computer technology and industry. The funding covers the setting up of the centre, plus building, staff and technology costs. This funded phase runs for 3 years from 1st September 1997. The focus of the Centre will be the development of an environment in which a multi- disciplinary team can engage in high quality research into speech acquisition and disorder. The Centre will consist of a series of specialist studios. Each of these will be equipped with close circuit television and state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, and will be dedicated to the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of specific areas of speech disability; for example, acquired speech disability following stroke, developmental speech disorders in children, and congenital oro-facial abnormalities such as cleft palate.
• EPSRC: Speech recognition using articulatory data
  EPSRC has awarded £215,000 for a three-year project on "Speech recognition using articulatory data" beginning 1st May 1998. The Research Fellow is Alan Wrench, and the PI's are Bill Hardcastle and Steve Isard (CSTR, University of Edinburgh). SLS is the lead department. The project will make heavy use of the Speech Production Laboratory, specifically its EPG and EMA data collection facilities. It employs Alan Wrench full-time for three years, plus technical support.
• Royal Society: Optopalatograph
  £26,000 to Alan Wrench from the Paul Instrument Fund at the Royal Society for "Development of a Calibrated Optopalatograph". The project will run for 9 months 1997/1998, also employing Colin Watson part-time.
• Socrates Thematic Network in Speech Communication Sciences
  40,000 ECU in a continuation of funding (1997/1998) to a Socrates Thematic Network "Speech Communication Sciences". Janet Beck is the local co-ordinator.
• QMC Research Committee
  An award of £915 to Fiona Gibbon for "A pilot investigation of the acoustic consequences of osteotomy in cleft palate".
  

• ESRC: The Scottish Vowel Length Rule. The phonetics, phonology and acquisition of a marginal contrast. An award of £158,000 to James M Scobbie, Nigel Hewlett and Alice Turk (University of Edinburgh) (R000237135). The project is to run for 3 years from June 1997, and will employ Jim Scobbie full-time, plus technical support. See REGARD for full project outputs.
• SHEFC: The Joint Facility for State-of-the-Art Analysis of Speech Production
  Nigel Hewlett successfully applied to SHEFC Regional Strategic Initiatives Fund for continued funding for the Speech Production Research Facility.
• Esprit-LTR: VERIVOX Project on Speaker Characteristics
  Partners include QMC (Hardcastle), Cambridge, Bonn and KTH Stockholm. The project begins in January 1997.
• QMC Research Committee: The development of a prototype of an Optopalatograph system
  An award of £1,600 to Alan Wrench and Bill Hardcastle.
• Principal's Contingency Fund: The Joint Facility for State-of-the-Art Analysis of Speech Production. An award has been made to support Alan Wrench as a full-time research fellow until June 1997 to continue development of the Speech Production Research Facility.
• SHEFC Development of Independent Learning Fund: Interactive assessment training system demonstrator development.
  Carmel Lum & Richard Cox (HCRC, University of Edinburgh) have been awarded £1000 to develop a prototype of a multimedia application for training students in patient diagnosis, Sept 96-Sept 97.

• £127,000 from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council Regional Strategic Initiatives Fund for a joint research facility to the Dept. of Speech and Language Sciences (main centre) and Dept. of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. The Joint Research Facility for the State-of-the-art Analysis of Speech Production will combine Electropalatography (EPG), which is a current research specialism of the department, with Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA). EPG records the actual contact of the tongue against the hard palate, and EMA (which is manufactured by the German medical equipment firm Carstens) records the vertical and horizontal movement of the tongue, lips and jaw. The department will house the only Carstens EMA in the UK, and a purpose-built joint facility is unique. Together they provide an extremely informative record of the movement of the articulators in real time during speech. The funds are for purchase and set-up of the facility, and to enable use of the fibre-optic network EastMAN for speech data storage, retrieval and analysis between institutions. Research bids are being drawn-up for future use of the facility by members of the dept. for the study of normal and pathological speech. Two researchers have been appointed (see below). Nov 95 - Aug 96.
• £90,000 from the Scottish Office Department of Health to the department for setting up a Scottish cleft lip and palate network CLEFTNET Scotland. The award is to apply new technology to the treatment of intractable speech disorders associated with cleft palate within a Scottish context. Roz Razzell (Specialist Speech and Language Therapist) and Tony Watson (Consultant Plastic Surgeon) from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children are partners. Four further cleft palate centres in Scotland (Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee & Glasgow) will be involved. Outreach clinics using EPG will transfer data back to QM for expert consultation from speech and language therapists experienced in EPG therapy. This obviates regular travel to QM for the client, making the treatment much more available. The project will employ a full-time RA for two years from May 1996 and an IT specialist for six months.
• £118,000 from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council 'Use of the MAN' Initiative (Strand 2) to the Dept. of English Language (main centre) and Dept. of Speech and Language Sciences (about £40,000) and Moray House to develop an interactive computer-based aid for teaching phonetics and phonology, in particular the phonetics of Scots and Scottish English. The Click-and-Listen system will be shared across the EastMAN. Nov 95 - Aug 96.