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News from our PGR community - December 2023-February 2024

Posted on 21 February 2024

We have more wonderful news to share from our vibrant PGR community at the department of Language and Linguistic Science.

We have more wonderful news to share from our vibrant PGR community at the department of Language and Linguistic Science. Find the latest achievements of our doctoral researchers below:

Successful vivas

• Liang Zhao has passed her PhD viva with minor corrections!  Her thesis is titled ‘Production and perception of lexical tone variation in Mandarin dialects’.
• Margherita Belia has passed her PhD viva with minor corrections! Her thesis is titled ‘Exploring the interplay of sleep, memory and development in infancy: A holistic perspective on vocabulary learning’.  
• Nikita Suthar has passed her PhD viva with minor corrections! Her thesis is titled ‘Within formant spectral feature analysis for forensic speaker discrimination casework: A study of 45 Marwari monolinguals from Bikaner, India’.

Papers

• Sascha Schäfer (and Paul Foulkes) have a paper out titled Towards a screening test for earwitnesses: Investigating the individual voice recognition skills of lay listeners published in the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. You can access it here.