Department of Language and Linguistic Science

Forensic phonetics and linguistics

International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)
IAFPA 'seeks to foster research and provide a forum for the interchange of ideas and information on practice, development and research in forensic phonetics and acoustics as well as to set down and enforce standards of professional conduct and procedure for those involved in forensic phonetic and acoustic casework.'
International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL)
IAFL is 'an organization which primarily consists of linguists whose work involves them in the law. Narrowly defined, this means linguistic evidence in court (authorship attribution, disputed confessions etc.), but in fact the association aims to bring together those working on any aspects of language and the law.'
Webster's Forensic Linguistics
Sue Blackwell's forensic linguistics website, run from the University of Birmingham.
Forensic Phonetics
This site, hosted by the University of New England, New South Wales, and maintained by Helen Fraser, 'includes information for lawyers, police, linguists and others about the use of speech science in the legal system.'
Forensic linguistics websites
Site maintained by Weiming Liu of Northwest University of Political Science & Law, Xi'an, China.
Aston University: Centre for Forensic Linguistics
Offers and MSc programme in Forensic Linguistics
Forensic Linguistics Institute
Website for the FLI, which was set up by John Olsson in 1995 to research forensic texts.
Forensic Linguistics Society
Website for the Forensic Linguistics Society
International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (Forensic Linguistics)
Abstracts for the current issue, and for previous issues going back to 1998.
Archives of the Forensic Linguistics mailing list
The e-mail discussion list for language and the law. Includes facility for searching back issues by keyword.