Professor Francis Nolan
Position:
Professor of Phonetics
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Postal Address:
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DA
Email:
fjn1@cam.ac.uk
Phone: (+44) (0)1223 335060
Fax: (+44) (0)1223 335062
Web Page: http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/francis/
Francis Nolan's interests centre on Phonetic theory. His early research looked at how, and to what extent, the identity of a speaker is encoded in speech - see for instance his book
The Phonetic Bases of Speaker Recognition (Cambridge: CUP, 1983 [reissued 2009]), and as a consequence he has been active in the application of Phonetics in forensic science. He has recently led two ESRC-funded projects,
DyVis and
VoiceSim, which studied aspects of speaker identity. His research interests also include prosody (including speech rhythm and dialect differences in intonation), and the Phonetic variation which occurs in fluent, natural speech. His teaching covers Phonetic theory and description, phonology, practical Phonetic skills, and experimental Phonetics.
