QM Phoneticians at 20th ICPhS in Prague

17 August 2023

Members of the QMUL Phonetics Lab and Language Acquisition Labs were well-represented at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences held in Prague last week! QM phoneticians (incl. alumni; in bold) presented a range of talks and posters, many with international collaborators - full list below - proceedings papers for these can be found on the ICPhS 2023 website.

Posters:

• Marc Barnard & Sophie Holmes-Elliott: The urge to unmerge: a case of structural change across the lifespan.
• Adam J. Chong & Marc Garellek (UCSD): Glottalisation of voiceless stops in Multicultural London English.
• Andy Gibson, Joshua Penney (Macquarie) & Felicity Cox (Macquarie): Acquiring allophony: GOOSE and SCHOOL vowels in the speech of Australian children.
• Jessica Göbel (MA 2022, now at NYU) & Kathleen McCarthy: The impact of cognitive load on speech production in German-English bilinguals.
• Thomas Packer-Stucki: Listening with style: the effect of bidialectal style-shifting on PRICE vowel perception in Britain’s Black Country.
• Hannah White (Macquarie), Joshua Penney (Macquarie), Andy Gibson, Felicity Cox (Macquarie) & Anita Szakay (Macquarie): Convergence of creaky voice use in Australian English.

Talks:

• Keren Rubner (MA 2021) & Kathleen McCarthy: SOUNDS HEIMISH: A sociophonetic study of London’s orthodox Jewish community.
• Joshua Penney (Macquarie), Andy Gibson & Felicity Cox (Macquarie): Variation in FACE and FLEECE trajectories in Australian English adolescents according to community language diversity