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New Sounds in Denmark

Posted on 27 June 2016

York staff and students at Aarhus conference

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York had a good presence at the recent 'New Sounds' international conference on second language speech, in Aarhus, Denmark from 10-12th June.

Pictured are: Cath Pease, currently working on her MA by Research on features affecting comprehensibility in Arabic-accented English; Sam Hellmuth, Senior Lecturer in our Department; Becky Muradás-Taylor, former postdoctoral researcher in our Department and now a Lecturer at York St John, who presented her research on acquisition of Japanese word accent by English learners of Japanese; and Florence Edwards, who graduated from York with a BA in German and Linguistics in 2015.

Florence is now working as a linguist in the civil service and has an offer to pursue postgraduate studies in speech processing.

Sam presented two papers at the conference: one co-authored with Florence, based on Florence's undergraduate research project on development of native-like accent in English learners of German; and a second paper co-authored with former MA in Psycholinguistics Bethany White and Becky Muradás-Taylor, on development of the ability to perceive word stress contrasts in English learners of Spanish.

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