Gisela Tomé Lourido

Gisela Tomé Lourido

Associate Professor in Sociophonetics

University of Leeds

Biography

Gisela Tomé Lourido is an Associate Professor in Sociophonetics in the Linguistics and Phonetics department at the University of Leeds. Her research interests are in accent variation, bias and inequalities in bilingual and monolingual populations.

She is the Director of Language@Leeds, a network addressing key societal issues through the interdisciplinary study of language. She co-leads the Language@Leeds ‘Embracing Linguistic Diversity’ satellite, a working group developing a series of initiatives to celebrate linguistic diversity and minimise language-based prejudices and disadvantages, starting from our University context.

She welcomes PhD applications on accent bias and inequalities, the role of accent variation in speech processing in first- (L1) and second-language (L2) listeners, and Galician speech production and perception.

Interests
  • Accent bias and inequalities
  • Sociophonetic variation in speech production and perception
  • Bilingual speech processing
  • Galician phonetics
  • Second language speech learning
Education
  • PhD in Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences

    UCL

  • MA in Phonetics

    UCL

  • Mestrado Universitario en Profesorado

    Universidade da Coruña

  • Licenciatura en Filoloxía Inglesa

    Universidade da Coruña

Projects

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Recent Publications

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(2023). Epenthesis and vowel intrusion in Central Dhofari Mehri. Journal of Semitic Studies 69(1), 521–576.

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(2019). The effects of language dominance switch in bilingual: Galician new speakers'' speech production and perception. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 22(3), 637-654.

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(2019). The role of early experience and continued language use in bilingual speech production: A study of Galician and Spanish mid vowels by Galician-Spanish bilinguals. Journal of Phonetics 72, 1-16.

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Contact

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