Jane Stuart-Smith

Moving targets: Insights into speaker and dialect variability from articulatory and acoustic phonetic studies across English

Jane Stuart-Smith is Professor of Phonetics and Sociolinguistics, and Director of the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP). Jane’s research interests and publications focus on speech and society, ranging from social and ethnic identities to understanding how and why accents change over time. She has directed a number of sociophonetic projects, most recently Sounds of the City and SPeech Across Accents of English. With colleagues at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, she has also developed the Seeing Speech and Dynamic Dialects web resources to promote wider understanding of the articulation of speech sounds.

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 Joan Carles Mora 

Assessing L2 vowel production gains after high-variability phonetic training: acoustic measurements vs. perceptual judgements

Joan C. Mora is associate professor in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies in University of Barcelona (UB), Spain. His research has examined the acquisition of L2 phonology and the role of contextual and individual factors in the development of L2 speech and oral fluency. His current  research projects focus on the role of bimodal input in L2 pronunciation development,  cognitive individual differences in L2 speech learning, L2 pronunciation learning and teaching, L2 speaking anxiety and the effectivenss of phonetic training methods in updating L2 phonolexical representations.

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 Charlie Nagle 

It's only a matter of time: Adopting a longitudinal mindset to pronunciation learning and teaching

Charlie Nagle is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics and the Director of the Spanish Language Program at Iowa State University. He has published widely on topics related to second language pronunciation, including the perception-production link, individual differences in pronunciation development, and dynamic and interactive approaches to listener-based ratings. He is also passionate about research methods, particularly longitudinal methods and advanced statistical techniques. His work has appeared in venues such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, The Modern Language Journal, and the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation.

 

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 Josefina Carrera Sabaté

From Body to Speech and Back: Considerations on Embodied Pronunciation

Josefina Carrera Sabaté is an Associate Professor in the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). She currently coordinates the Phonetics Teaching Innovation Group FONCAT. Her research and teaching areas are phonology, sociophonetics, applied phonetics, phonetics teaching and oral communication. She is responsible for the Catalan Pronunciation Guides website and she is codirector of the website The sounds of Catalan. [Her last publication is a chapter in the Second and Third Language Acquisition in Catalan-speaking Regions book].