Kathleen McCarthy, PhD (UCL)

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Email: k.mccarthy@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 7557Room Number: ArtsOne 1.13AWebsite: https://languageacquisitionlab.qmul.ac.ukOffice Hours: Friday 1-2pm on Zoom (link on QM+ course page), or by appointment.
Profile
Teaching
- Language Acquisition (UG)
- Phonetics I: the Sounds of English (UG)
- Acoustic Analysis of Speech (UG)
- Research Methods (UG)
- Developmental Disorders of Language and Cognition (UG/PG)
Research
Research Interests:
- Child language acquisition
- Speech perception and production
- Heritage language communities and bilingual acquisition
- Phonological development
- Acoustics of speech and hearing
Publications
Browse a publication list by Dr. Kathleen McCarthy.
McCarthy, K.M. & de Leeuw, E. (2021). Prosodic patterns in Sylheti-English bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
Kirkham, S. & McCarthy, K.M. (2020). Acquiring allophonic structure and phonetic detail in a bilingual community: The production of laterals by Sylheti-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism.
McCarthy, K.M., Skoruppa, K., & Iverson, P. (2019). Development of neural perceptual vowel spaces during the first year of life. Scientific Reports 9: 19592.McCarthy, K.M. & Evans, B. G (2019). The perception of familiar and unfamiliar accents by bilingual and monolingual children. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2203-2207.
Oxbury, R. & McCarthy, K.M. (2019). Acquiring a multiethnolect: the production of diphthongs by children and adolescents in West London. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2208-2212.
Sharma, D. & McCarthy, K. M. (2018). Attentional load and style control. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 24(2), 127-136.
McCarthy, K. M., Rosen, S., Mahon M., & Evans, B. G. (2014). Speech perception and production by sequential bilingual children: a longitudinal study of VOT acquisition. Child Development, 85(5), 1965-1980.
McCarthy, K. M., Evans, B.G., & Mahon, M., (2013). Acquiring a second language in an immigrant community: the production of Sylheti and English stops and vowels by London Bengali speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 41, 344-358.
McCarthy, K. M., Evans, B.G., & Mahon, M. (2011). Detailing the phonetic environment: a sociophonetic study of the London-Bengali community. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 1354-1357.
Mahon, M., Vickers, D., McCarthy, K. M., Barker, R., Merritt, R., Szagun, G., Mann, W., & Rajput, K (2011). Cochlear-implanted children from homes where English is an additional language: findings form a recent audit in one London centre. Cochlear Implants International, 12 (2) pp. 105-113.