Phonetics and Phonology in Action

Kateryna Laidler is a PhD student in the Phonetics and Phonology Unit of the English Department at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. Her major scientific interest lies within the field of phonology. She has presented results of her findings on phonological adaptation of Ukrainian and Russian words by English native speakers at APAP (2015) and LingBaW (2016) conferences and in published papers.

Xiaoliang Luo is an assistant professor at Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau) and lecturer at University of Orléans, France. He’s research covers theoretical phonology, Chinese phonology and morphology as well as epistemology. He has published articles in journals such as Histoire, Epistémologie, Langage and Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure. He is a member of the Société de linguistique de Paris, and serves as a scientific committee member of the international conferences French Phonology Network and Syllable.

Mahesh M is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in Madras, India. A doctoral degree holder in linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he has published several articles on phonetics and phonology. He is currently involved in developing prosodic rules for speech synthesis of Indian languages.

Mayuki Matsui is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan. Her primary research interests are neutralization, emergence, and transformation of phonological contrast at the interfaces of phonology, phonetics and psycholinguistics. Her recent publications include Acoustic manifestation of Russian word-final devoicing in utterance-medial position (2017), The impact of manner of articulation on the intelligibility of voicing contrast in noise: Cross-linguistic implications (2016), and Phonological symmetry, phonetic asymmetry, and the acoustic consequences of voicing in Russian (2016).

Grzegorz Michalski is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. His 2009 doctoral thesis focused on the interaction between phonology and other components of grammar in a modular setting, and tried to marry the cyclic approach to derivation with the representational apparatus of CVCV and Element Theory. His main interests are theoretical linguistics and the phonology of English and Polish.

Heglyn Pimenta. is currently associated with the research unit Structures Formelles du Langage, Paris 8 University, France. She works on the phonology of Romance languages, recently focusing on the structure of Portuguese nasal and complex nuclei, hiatus and closed syllables. In her research, she takes into account diachronic evolution, synchronic data from both standard and non-standard varieties, and experimental data.

Ágnes Piukovics is a PhD student at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary. Her field of research is second/foreign language phonology and pronunciation acquisition, with a special focus on Hungarian-accented English.

Andrzej Porzuczek is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English, University of Silesia, Poland. His research areas comprise foreign language acquisition, interlanguage phonology and practical phonetics pedagogy. His recent publications include an English pronunciation coursebook for Polish learners (2013), a monograph on the temporal characteristics of Polish learner’s read English speech (2012) and several articles devoted to the prosodic aspects of Polish-accented English pronunciation and teaching practical English phonetics to Polish learners.

Arkadiusz Rojczyk is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English, University of Silesia, Poland. He specialises in speech production and perception. Most of his research concentrates on the acquisition of non-native speech. He has published a book Temporal and spectral parameters in perception of the voicing contrast in English and Polish (2010). Currently he is working on visual speech in the Facial Motion Capture technology.

Marcel Schlechtweg is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Kassel, Germany. He works in the fields experimental psycholinguistics, phonetics, phonology, and morphology. His research interests include mental representation, processing and prosody of complex constructions, especially compounds and phrases. His doctoral dissertation Memorization and the Compound-Phrase Distinction appeared in the De Gruyter book series Studia Grammatica in 2018.