Phonetics at Oxford University

Past graduates of the Phonetics Laboratory

Name	Date	Thesis title	Occupation
NB Some links are to old Oxford webpages
Dr Chenzi Xu	DPhil 2022	Investigating the tonal system in Plastic Mandarin: A Cross-varietal comparison	Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
Dr Mitko Sabev	DPhil 2020	Spectral and Durational Unstressed Vowel Reduction: An acoustic study of monolingual and bilingual speakers of Bulganian and Turkish	Research Fellow, Dept of Language Science & Technology, Saarland University
Dr Ethan Sherr-Ziarko	DPhil 2019	Prosodic Properties of Formality in Spoken Japanese	Language Data Researcher, Amazon Lab126
Dr Rosemary Hall	DPhil 2018	Staging Language in Bermuda: phonology and parodic performance of Bermudian English	Research Assistant, The Dialect and Heritage Project University of Leeds
Dr Christopher Huff	DPhil 2017	A Study of Mandarin Homophony
Dr Michael Ashby	DPhil 2016	Experimental phonetics in Britain, 1890–1940	Retired. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College, London
Dr Helena Beeley	DPhil 2016	The Phonetics of Labialized Velars in Ancient Greek
Dr Zeynab Raeesy	DPhil 2014	Automatic Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Images of Speech Articulation	Researcher, Amazon
Dr Heidi Kurtz	DPhil 2012	Stress, Etymology, and Metre in Four Canterbury Tales	Senior Development Executive – Museums and Collections, University of Oxford
Dr `Oiwi Parker Jones	DPhil 2010	A Computational Phonology and Morphology of Hawaiian	Principal Investigator, Neural Processing Lab, Engineering Science, and Research Fellow, Jesus College Oxford
Dr Ranjan Sen	DPhil 2009	Syllable and Segment in Latin	Deputy Head, School of English, University of Sheffield
Dr Anastassia Loukina	DPhil 2008	Regional Phonetic Variation in Modern Greek	Associate Research Scientist, ETS
Dr Ekaterina Samoylova	DPhil 2007	The Production and Perception of Whispered Vowels in English	Administrative Officer at Cambridge University
Dr Nivedita Mani	DPhil 2005	Prosody, Syntax and the Lexicon in Parsing Ambiguous Sentences	Professor of Psychology of Language, University of Göttingen, Germany
Dr Catherine Sangster	DPhil 2002	Inter- and intra-speaker variation in Liverpool English: a sociophonetic study	Executive Editor, Pronunciations, Oxford University Press
Dr Elinor Keane	DPhil 2001	Echo words in Tamil
Dr Paula West	DPhil 2000	Long-distance coarticulatory effects of English /l/ and /r/	Chief Technology Officer, Newton Investment Management
Dr Peter Chew	DPhil 2000	A Computational Phonology of Russian	Principal Investigator, Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Dr Jana Dankovicova	DPhil 1998	The Linguistic Basis of Articulation Rate Variation in Czech	Career Consultant, University College London
Dr Ken Lomax	DPhil 1997	The Analysis and Synthesis of the Singing Voice	Head of Hybris Software Academy at SAP C&CI, Munich
Prof. Chris Wen-Chao Li	DPhil 1997	A diachronically-motivated segmental phonology of Mandarin Chinese	Professor of Linguistics, San Francisco State University.
Prof. Jane Stuart-Smith	DPhil 1995	The Development of the Indo-European Voiced Aspirates in Italic. A philological and phonetic assessment	Professor in English Language, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK and Director of Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics.
Dr Nicky Woods	DPhil 1992	Sociolinguistic patterns in English pitch and Intonation
Prof. John Hajek	DPhil 1992	The interrelationship between vowels and nasal consonants: a study in Northern Italian	Professor of Italian Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr Nicola Bessell	MPhil		Lecturer in Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork
Prof. Rosalind Temple	MPhil 1988	Sex-specific aspects of the voicing contrast in French stop consonants	Associate Professor in French Linguistics and Fellow of New College, Oxford.
Ceri Carlill	MLitt 1988	Distance metrics for speech spectra - a multidimensional scaling study
Dr Brian Pickering	DPhil 1986	Auditory vowel formant variability	Research Professor, IT Innovation, Southampton University
Dr Caroline Henton	DPhil 1985	A comparative study of phonetic sex-specific differences across languages	Chief Scientist, SpeakSoft Inc, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
Dr Anthony Bladon	DPhil 1985	Auditory Phonetics	Not only a past graduate, Tony was also the first Director of Oxford's Phonetics Laboratory.
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.