On 8th-10th April, the Phonetics Lab attended the 2026 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, which took place at the University of Warwick. Memebers of the group were represented in seven presentations at the conference:

  • Sam Kirkham & Patrycja Strycharczuk - AURORA model of formant-to-tongue inversion for didactic and clinical applications
  • Anton Malmi & Claire Nance - Acquiring the acoustics and articulation of complex consonants in Estonian
  • Simona Montanari, Claire Nance & Robert Mayr - Vowel production by Spanish-English bilingual children: An instrumental articulatory study
  • Claire Nance, Maya Dewhurst, Sam Kirkham & Takayuki Nagamine - Articulation at the end stage of sound change: Derhoticisation across east Lancashire
  • Seren Parkman & Claire Nance - The effect of cognition and motor control on voice quality across the lifespan
  • Patrycja Strycharczuk, Justin Lo & Sam Kirkham - Articulatory strategy as a source of variation in acoustic vowel dynamics
  • Di Wang & Claire Nance - Producing /l/ and /n/ from a merging L1 system: L1 Chongqing Mandarin, L2 Standard Mandarin, L3 English

A group of 13 people standing in two rows, some sporting red Phonetics Lab T-shirts. Members of the Phonetics Lab past and present.