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Congratulations, Dr Fairclough!
Huge congratulations to Lois Fairclough, who passed her PhD viva subject to minor revisions earlier this week! Celebrating Lois’ viva success! Lois’ thesis, titled Evaluting sources of variability in formant-based speaker discrimination, was examined by Kirsty McDougall (Cambridge) and Justin Lo (Lancaster). The thesis investigates how measurement procedures, analyst decision-making,… Read more
Phonetics Lab at BAAP 2026
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… Read more
Voices of the Victorians on air
Bare, burn, Cark? Earlier this week, Claire was invited to BBC Radio Lancashire and Radio Cumbria, where she talked about rhoticity and accent change in urban centres in Victorian Lancashire. UK listeners can catch up on Claire’s segment before the end of the month on BBC Sounds (from 2:22:23)! Image… Read more
Lab social event
We hosted a visiting student from IPS, Munich this week, so some of the group had dinner and drinks together!
Phonetics Lab at ISSP 2024
Lancaster Phonetics Lab was represented at the 13 International Seminar on Speech Production, which took place 13-17 May 2024 in the mountains in Autrans, France. The group had seven presentations at the conference. Emily Gorman - Dialect specific patterns of gestural timing? Evidence from lateral clusters Sam Kirkham - Discovering… Read more
New lab merchandise
We have new lab merchandise! Claire, Emily and Maya are modelling our new lab t-shirts below. We also have stickers - if you want one then try to catch us at a conference!
Phonetics Lab at BAAP 2024
Members of Lancaster’s Phonetics Lab attended the 2024 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, which took place 25-27 March 2024 in Cardiff, Wales. Memebers of the group were involved in eight presentations at the conference: Bronwen G. Evans, Rakgyun Shin, Jieun Song & Justin Lo - A community… Read more
Mid-term social
We had a lab talk during reading week (week 6), so we had to move our mid-term social to week 8. It was rather last minute, but a few of us headed down to The Sun Hotel for some drinks and a lovely evening together!
New website
We have a new website! Stay tuned for more news soon!