| Name |
Date |
Thesis title |
Occupation |
| Dr Anastassia Loukina |
DPhil 2008 |
"Regional Phonetic Variation in Modern Greek" |
Now a research associate in the Phonetics Laboratory |
| Dr Ekaterina Samoylova |
DPhil 2007 |
"The Production and Perception of Whispered Vowels in English" |
Now a teaching fellow in phonetics, Newcastle University |
| Dr Nivedita Mani |
DPhil 2005 |
"Prosody, Syntax and the Lexicon in Parsing Ambiguous Sentences" |
Now a research associate in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL |
| Dr Catherine Sangster |
DPhil 2002 |
"Inter- and intra-speaker variation in Liverpool English: a sociophonetic study." |
Now a Pronunciation Linguist at the BBC. |
| Dr Elinor Keane |
DPhil 2001 |
"Echo words in Tamil" |
Now a part-time research fellow in the Phonetics Laboratory |
| Dr Paula West |
DPhil 2000 |
"Long-distance coarticulatory effects of English /l/ and /r/." |
Now Associate Programmer Analyst, Equities Management Technology group, Goldman Sachs. |
| Dr Peter Chew |
DPhil 2000 |
"A Computational Phonology of Russian." |
Now a finance consultant. |
| Dr Jana Dankovicova |
DPhil 1998 |
"The Linguistic Basis of Articulation Rate Variation in Czech." |
Now Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics, University College London, Department of Human Communication Science. |
| Dr Ken Lomax |
DPhil 1997 |
"The Analysis and Synthesis of the Singing Voice." |
Now a professional software developer. |
| Dr Wen-Chao Li |
DPhil 1997 |
"A diachronically-motivated segmental phonology of Mandarin Chinese." |
Now Assistant Professor in Chinese Linguistics, Department of Foreign Languages, San Francisco State University. |
| Dr Jane Stuart-Smith |
DPhil 1995 |
"The Development of the Indo-European Voiced Aspirates in Italic. A philological and phonetic assessment." |
Currently Lecturer in English Language, Dept. of English Language, University of Glasgow. UK. |
| Dr Nicky Woods |
DPhil 1992 |
"Sociolinguistic patterns in English pitch and Intonation." |
|
| Dr John Hajek |
DPhil 1992 |
"The interrelationship between vowels and nasal consonants: a study in Northern Italian." |
Now Associate Professor and Reader in Italian Studies in the School of Languages & Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia. |
| Dr Rosalind Temple |
MPhil 1988 |
"Sex-specific aspects of the voicing contrast in French stop consonants". |
Now University Lecturer in French Linguistics & Fellow of New College, University of York. |
| Ceri Carlill |
MLitt 1988 |
"Distance metrics for speech spectra - a multidimensional scaling study". |
|
| Dr Brian Pickering |
DPhil 1986 |
"Auditory vowel formant variability." |
Now at IBM United Kingdom Laboratories, Hursley Park, Winchester, England. SO21 2JN. |
| Dr Caroline Henton |
DPhil 1985 |
"A comparative study of phonetic sex-specific differences across languages." |
Currently Chief Scientist, SpeakSoft Inc, U.S.A. |
| Dr R.A.W. Bladon |
DPhil 1985 |
"Auditory Phonetics." |
Currently President of Market Diligence, Santa Barbara, California. U.S.A. |
| Dr Ameen H.A. Al-Bamerni |
DPhil 1983 |
"Oral, velic and laryngeal coarticulation across languages." |
Former Head of the English Department, University of Mosul, Iraq. Deceased 1998. |
