Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

   

Kirsty McDougall is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, undertaking a project entitled 'A Phonetic Theory of Voice Similarity'. Her research interests include phonetic theory, speaker characteristics, and speech production. She is particularly interested in the role of individual differences in theories of speech production, and applications of phonetics in the forensic domain. Her doctoral research investigated speaker-distinguishing properties of formant frequency dynamics and ways these might be used to characterise speakers. Before commencing her British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, she was a Research Associate on the ESRC-funded projects Dynamic Variability in Speech: a Forensic Phonetic Study of British English (DyViS) and Voice Similarity and the Effect of the Telephone: a Study of the Implications of Earwitness Evidence (VoiceSim).