Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Dr Brechtje Post
College: Jesus Position: University Lecturer, Department of Theoretical and Applied LinguisticsPostal Address:
DTAL
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
University of Cambridge
RFB
Sidgwick Avenue
CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DA
Phone: (+44) (0)1223 767395
Fax: (+44) (0)1223 335062
Brechtje's research primarily centres around intonational and prosodic phonology, where she investigates how interfaces between the phonological structure and other types of linguistic structure constrain prosody and intonation, and the way in which they are cued in the speech signal. She approaches this theme from different angles: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition, neurolinguistics and cognitive psychology. She is currently directing a major research project on the neural processing of categorical and gradient information in intonation (ESRC First Grant), as well as a collaborative project with Cambridge ESOL on L2 English at different levels of proficiency, the English Profile Pronunciation Project (Cambridge Assessment). Other current research includes the EF Cambridge learner corpus project (Newton Trust and Education First), Empirical foundations of linguistics (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), and the Interactive Atlas of Romance Prosody (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and others).
Recent publications include:
- Post, Brechtje, William Marslen-Wilson, Billi Randall and Lorraine K. Tyler (2008). The processing of English regular inflections: Phonological cues to morphological structure. Cognition, 109, 1–17.
- Post, Brechtje (2011). The multi-faceted relation between phrasing and intonation in French. In Lleo, C. and C. Gabriel Hamburger Studies in Multilingualism 10. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 44-74.
- Payne, Elinor, Brechtje Post, Pilar Prieto, Maria del Mar Vanrell and Lluïsa Astruc (2012). Measuring child rhythm. Language and Speech. DOI: 10.1177/0023830911417687.
- Post, Brechtje and Francis Nolan (2012). Data collection for prosodic analysis of continuous speech and dialectal variation. In Abigail C. Cohn, Cécile Fougeron, and Marie Huffman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 538-547.
- Zellers, Meg and Brechtje Post (2012). Combining Formal and Functional Approaches to Discourse Structure. Language and Speech, 55: 119-139.
Brechtje teaches phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics.
