Postdoctoral studentship: Low-level processing in L2 speech perception
The main objective of the project is to clarify the role of the various factors in foreign accent perception via a tightly-linked series of behavioural and computer modelling studies. More specifically, the position involves:
(1) collecting corpora for foreign accent analysis from Czech and Spanish speakers using English as their foreign language
(2) identification of the main phonetic correlates of foreign accent in each language by phonetic analysis with other phoneticians in Prague and Vitoria
(3) speech signal manipulation and re-synthesis in temporal, frequency and intensity domains
(4) collecting data from experimental situations concerning listeners’ judgements
