Dates: 2023-2024
Funding: Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship
Summary: This project aims to develop sustainable initiatives to celebrate linguistic diversity and tackle accent-based inequalities in different sectors, starting from Higher Education. Initiatives include a University-wide survey of university students' experiences of accent-based disadvantages, and developing context-specific solutions in partnership with the Leeds University Union (LUU), EDI teams, and Higher Education institutions.
Dates: 2019-2022
Principal Investigator: Janet Watson (University of Leeds)
Collaborators: Barry Heselwood (University of Leeds) and Abdullah Musallam al-Mahri
Funding: Leverhulme Trust
Summary: This project investigates the the sound systems of Mehri and Shehret, two endangered Modern South Arabian languages (MSAL) spoken in Southern Arabia.
Dates: 2018-2022
Collaborators: Robert Lennon (Lancaster University) and Bronwen G. Evans (UCL).
Funding: School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds.
Summary: This project uses eye-tracking to investigate how information about the speakers’ accent influences the time course of spoken word recognition.
Dates: 2013-2021
Collaborators: Bronwen G. Evans (UCL), Robert Mayr (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
Summary: This project uses phonetic methods, perception tasks and eye-tracking to investigate Galician-Spanish bilinguals' speech production and perception, with a focus on Galician new speakers (neofalantes).