Projects

Our research spans a large number of projects across diverse areas - it would be too difficult to keep a complete list! You can get a good idea of what people are working on by looking at the lab’s member pages linked here.

Our current funded projects include:

  • The Voice of the North: Language, accent and identity through artistic innovation (AHRC IAA)
  • A Future Archive: Cultural innovation through film and audio heritage (AHRC IAA)
  • Interpretable acoustic-articulatory relations in speech production (Royal Society)
  • The articulatory properties of children’s acquisition of Estonian palatalisation (Estonian Research Council)
  • Developing Y-ACCDIST’s robustness for use on Levantine Arabic dialects (EU)
Past projects (Click to expand)
  • Modelling the dynamics of phonetic variation and phonological change (AHRC, 2024-25)
  • Resonance as a phonetic resource in language cognition: A cross-linguistic articulatory-acoustic-perception study of liquids (SPARC, 2023-25)
  • The effect of vocal effort on the variability of nasal coarticulation (IAFPA, 2023)
  • Identifying speakers who speak an unfamiliar language: Finding and sharing a solution to foreign-language evidence in forensic speech casework (British Academy, 2022-23)
  • Changing /r/ accents? Towards a sociophonological understanding of sound change (Leverhulme Trust, 2020-25)
  • TarDiS: Targets and dynamics in speech (AHRC, 2019-23)

Publications

A list of publications from our lab is available here.

Software

Public engagement projects

  • Lancashire Tongues