Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Dr Brechtje Post - Research Projects and Grants

As Principal Investigator/ Project leader:

2009-2012 Categories and gradience in intonation: Evidence from linguistics and neurobiology

Funded by an ESRC First Grant (RES-061-25-0347, £352, 328.35). CI Dr Emmanuel Stamatakis (Anaesthetics), mentor Prof. Francis Nolan (Linguistics), part-time RA Toby Hudson, full-time post-doc RA Iwo Bohr.

2007-2011 Sound to Sense

Funded by an EC Marie Curie Research Training Network grant (MRTN-CT-2006-035561, €2,799,742.00). Project CoordinatorSarah Hawkins (Linguistics), 35 CIs. I was Theme Leader and I coordinated one of the 11 projects. I supervised one of the 18 Fellows on the grant.

2011- English Profile Pronunciation Project

Approx. £7500, funded by Cambridge Assessment. CI Prof. Michael McCarthy (Nottingham), and 4 collaborators at Cambridge Assessment (3 part-time RAs paid through Cambridge Assessment).

2009-2010 A cross-linguistic study of intonational development in young infants and children

with CIs Elinor Payne (Oxford) and Luisa Astruc (Cambridge); international project partners Pilar Prieto and Maria del Mar Vanrell
Part-time RA: Naomi Hilton

2006-2008 A transcription system for prosody and phonological modelling

Funded by the British Academy (SG51777; £7365.50). Co-PI Élisabeth Delais-Roussarie (CNRS/Université Paris VII), 2 CIs in France.

2005 Different phonological structures in prosody?

Funded by the British Academy (SG40478, £7480). RA Caroline Williams

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As Co-Investigator:

2011-2020 Empirical foundations of linguistics: data, methods, models

Funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (€9,000,000). Coordinator Jacqueline Vaissière (Université Paris 3) for the PRES Paris Cité (14 collaborating research laboratories at Paris 3, Paris 7, Paris 5, Inalco, and Paris 13). I am CI on Strand 1: Phonetic and phonological complexity (PIs Martine Adda-Decker and Élisabeth Delais-Roussarie).

2012- Interactive Atlas of the Prosody of Portuguese (InAPoP) and other Romance languages

Funded by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/CLE-LIN/119787/2010). PI Sónia Frota (University of Lisbon), 7 CIs in Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and US.

2011-2013 The Education First Cambridge Learner Corpus of English - a data driven approach to second language learning

Funded by the Cambridge Newton Trust and Education First (£180.000). PI Theodora Alexopoulou (DTAL), CI Anna Korhonen (DTAL and Computer Lab); SRA Jeroen Geertzen.

2011-2012 Off-site and internet-based linguistic and executive functions research in bilingual children

Funded by the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme (£15,000). PI Napoleon Katsos (DTAL), CIs Theodora Alexopoulou, Henriette Hendriks, Teresa Parodi (all DTAL), Claire Hughes (PPS), Michelle Ellefson (Education).

2009-2010 The acquisition of intonation in Catalan, Spanish and English

Funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Batista i Roca, 2009 PBR 00018, €12000.00). PI Pilar Prieto (ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra), 4 CIs, 1 RA.

2006-2010 Prosody in Grammar

Funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (€220,000.00). PI Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS/Paris VII), 28 CIs in 4 French labs.

2007-2008 L1 acquisition of rhythm in Catalan, Spanish and English

Funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Batista i Roca, 2009 PBR 00018, €12000.00). PI Pilar Prieto (ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra), 4 CIs, 4 part-time RAs; I supervised the main RA.

1995-1999 Phonological characterisation of French intonation

Junior Research position funded by the University of Nijmegen (leading to the PhD). Supervisors Carlos Gussenhoven and Haike Jacobs (University of Nijmegen)

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As Research Associate/Assistant:

2001-2003 Morpho-phonological factors in spoken language comprehension

Part funded by the British Academy and the MRC (U.1055.04.002.00001.01 and G0500842). PIs Lorraine K. Tyler (Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) and William Marslen-Wilson (MRC-CBU, Cambridge).

1999 - 2001 Intonation in the British Isles

Funded by the ESRC. PIs Francis Nolan and Esther Grabe (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge).

1998 The acquisition of prosody in speech production: English and French

(RA), funded by Christ Church College, Oxford. PI Ian Watson (University of Oxford).

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