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2025
Almeida, L., Gully, A. & Foulkes, P. (2025) Forensic phonetic analysis of spoofed European Portuguese speech. IAFPA, The Hague, 20-23 July.
Broadhurst, E., Foulkes, P. & Gibb-Reid, B. (2025) Sent to Coventry: a study of accent perception in British Midlands varieties. IAFPA, The Hague, 20-23 July.
Buckley, T., Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Wormald, J., Harrington, L., van der Vloed, D. & Kelly, F. (2025) Addressing a variety of real-world vocal mismatches in speaker recognition systems. UK & Ireland Speech Workshop, York, 16-17 June.
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (2025) Allophonic variation of /ə/ in the conversational speech of young speakers from Perth. Australian Linguistic Society, Griffith University, Australia, 2-5 December.
Harrington, L., Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P., Wormald, J., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2025a) Variability in the performance of automatic speaker recognition systems across modelling approaches. UK & Ireland Speech Workshop, York, 16-17 June.
Harrington, L., Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P., Wormald, J., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2025b) Variability in the performance of automatic speaker recognition systems across modelling approaches. IAFPA, The Hague, 20-23 July.
Harrington, L., Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P., Wormald, J., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2025c) Variability in performance across four generations of automatic speaker recognition systems. Interspeech, Rotterdam, 17-21 August.
Kiff, E., Gully, A. & Foulkes, P. (2025) Vocal tract length and vowel acoustics: lowered larynx vs lip rounding. UK & Ireland Speech Workshop, York, 16-17 June.
Lin, J., Foulkes, P. & Hughes, V. (2025) A pilot acoustic study of Mandarin /ʂ/ in Southern Min speakers: implications for forensic speaker comparison. IAFPA, The Hague, 20-23 July.
Patman, C., Foulkes, P. & McDougall, K. (2025) Evaluating the suitability of acoustic parameters for capturing breathy voice in non-pathological female speakers. Interspeech, Rotterdam, 17-21 August.
Pepper, L., Foulkes, P. & Harrington, L. (2025) Sound judgments: ASR accuracy and trust in ROTI transcripts. IAFPA, The Hague, 20-23 July.
2024
Buckley, T., Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2024) Accounting for vocal mismatch within an automatic speaker recognition system. UK & Ireland Speech, Cambridge, 1-2 July.
Buckley, T., Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Wprmald, J., Gully, A., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2024) Exploring solutions to vocal mismatch for automatic speaker recognition systems. IAFPA, Montréal, Canada, 29-31 July.
Hughes, V., Xu, C., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Welch, P., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2024) Exploring individual speaker behaviour within a forensic automatic speaker recognition system. Odyssey 2024. The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop. Québec, Canada, 18-21 June.
Patman, C., Foulkes, P. & McDougall, K. (2024) Investigating the aocustic distance between default and breathy voice for female speakers. IAFPA, Montréal, Canada, 29-31 July.
Patman, C., McDougall, K. & Foulkes, P. (2024) Using an audio-video and exposure experiment to explore the perception of face mask speech. BAAP [Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians/Colocwiwm Cymdeithas Brydeinig Seinegwyr Academaidd]. University of Cardiff, 25-27 March.
Patman, C., McDougall, K. & Foulkes, P. (2024) Reviewing methodological approaches to investigating laryngeal voice qualities including breathy and whispery voice: a systematic review of acoustic metrics. IAFPA, Montréal, Canada, 29-31 July.
Xu, C., Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Welch, P. & Wormald, J.H. (2024) Towards automatic analysis of laryngeal voice quality. BAAP [Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians/Colocwiwm Cymdeithas Brydeinig Seinegwyr Academaidd]. University of Cardiff, 25-27 March.
Xu, C., Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Welch, P., Wormald, J.H., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2024) Exploring individual speaker characteristics within a forensic automatic speaker recognition system. UK & Ireland Speech, Cambridge, 1-2 July,
Xu, C., Wormald, J.H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Welch, P., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2024) Voice quality in telephone speech: comparing acoustic measures between VoIP telephone and high-quality recordings. Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece, 1-5 September.
2023
Docherty, G., Gonzalez, S. & Foulkes, P. (2023) An acoustic study of the realisation of KIT in the conversational speech of young English speakers in Australia. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czechia, 7-11 August.
Harrison, P., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V., Welch, P., Wormald, J.H. & Xu, C. (2023) Interactive visualisation of speech data in virtual reality. IAFPA, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 9-12 July.
Hughes, V., Wormald, J.H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Welch, P., Xu, C., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2023) Effects of vocal variation on the output of an automatic speaker recognition system. IAFPA, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 9-12 July.
Hughes, V., Wormald, J.H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D., Welch, P. & Xu, C. (2023) Automatic speaker recognition with variation across vocal conditions: a controlled experiment with implications for forensics. Interspeech, Dublin, Ireland, 20-24 August.
Klug, K., Kirchhübel, C., Braun, A. & Foulkes, P. (2023) Assessing creaky voice quality for forensic purposes. Aarhus International Conference on Voice Studies, Aarhus, Denmark, 17-18 August.
Patman, C., Foulkes, P. & Hughes, V. (2023) Smile with your eyes! The impact of face coverings on speech intelligibility and perceptions of speaker attributes. IAFPA, Zurich, Switzerland, 9-12 July.
Patman, C., McDougall, K. & Foulkes, P. (2023) Exploring the effects of face coverings on the perception of female speech: insights from an audio-visual and exposure experiment. Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium, University of Cambridge, 16 November.
Welch, P., Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D., Wormald, J.H. & Xu, C. (2023) Attempting to understand the behaviour of automatic speaker recognition systems for application in forensic casework. UK Speech, Sheffield, 14-15 June.
Williams, S., Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P. (2023) Acoustic analysis of L2 English phonemes for language identification. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czechia, 7-11 August.
Wormald, J.H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Kelly, F., van der Vloed, D. & Xu, C. (2023) Sensitivity of x-vectors and automatic speaker recognition scores to vocal variation. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czechia, 7-11 August.
Wormald, J.H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Xu, C., van der Vloed, D., Kelly, F. & Nolan, F. (2023) Analysing vocal settings to help understand segmental variation. UKLVC 14, Edinburgh, 26-28 June.
Xu, C., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V. & Wormald, J.H. (2023) Contributions of acoustic measures to the classification of laryngeal voice quality in continuous English speech. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czechia, 7-11 August.
Xu, C., Hughes, V., Wormald, J.H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Welch, P., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2023) Impact of the changes in long-term acoustic features upon different-speaker ASR scores. IAFPA, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 9-12 July.
Xu, C., Welch, P., Wormald, J.H., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Kelly, F. & van der Vloed, D. (2023) Understanding the behaviour of automatic speaker recognition systems for application in forensic casework. UK Speech, University of Sheffield, 14-15 June.
2022
Foulkes, P. (2022) Vihman: an appreciation. Closing remarks for the Building Linguistic Systems Conference, in Honour of Marilyn Vihman. University of York, 14-16 June.
Foulkes, P. (2022) Forensic speech science needs forensic phonetics. ISAPh 2022 (4th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics), Lund, Sweden, 14-16 September. [KEYNOTE]
Foulkes, P. (2022) Language analysis in the asylum process: principles, practices & problems. Seminar, Grenzziehungen und Aushandlungen in Migrationsgesellschaften, University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, 21 November.
Foulkes, P. (2022) Dead clade walking? On the survival prospects of the forensic phonetician. 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2022), ANU, Canberra, Australia, 13-16 December. [KEYNOTE]
Gibb-Reid, B., Foulkes, P., & Hughes, V. (2022) Just the way you are: The potential of the word just as a speaker discriminant. IAFPA, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 10-13 July.
Gibb-Reid, B., Foulkes, P., & Hughes, V. (2022) And it's just like: The discourse-pragmatic and phonetic variation of just with applications to forensic voice comparison. ISAPh 2022 (4th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics), Lund, Sweden, 14-16 September.
Gibb-Reid, B., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V. & Walker, T. (2022) Just can’t get enough: The phonetic variation of just with applications to forensic voice comparison. BAAP, University of York, 4-8 April.
Gibb-Reid, B., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V. & Walker, T. (2022) Just listen: Describing phonetic variation in the word just. 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2022), ANU, Canberra, Australia, 13-16 December.
Hoskin, J. & Foulkes, P. (2022) Shifting the burden: towards more robust and transparent procedures for LADO. IAFPA, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 10-13 July.
Hughes, V., Cardoso, A., Foulkes, P., French, P., Gully, A. & Harrison, P. (2022) Speaker-specificity in speech production: the contribution of source and filter. BAAP, University of York, 4-8 April.
Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., van der Vloed, D. & Kelly, F. (2022) Person-specific automatic speaker recognition: understanding the behaviour of individuals for applications of ASR. IAFPA, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 10-13 July.
Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Wormald, J., Xu, C., van der Vloed, D. & Kelly, F. (2022) Person-specific automatic speaker recognition: understanding the behaviour of individuals for applications of ASR. UK Speech Conference 2022, University of Edinburgh, 5-6 September.
Kiff, E., Gully, A. & Foulkes, P. (2022) Lip rounding in isolated vowels: an investigation into vocal tract length and acoustic output using 3D magnetic resonance iImaging. BAAP, University of York, 4-8 April.
Kirchhübel, C., Brown, G. & Foulkes, P. (2022) Demonstrating rigour and transparency as a sole practitioner in forensic speech science. International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL), Porto, Portugal, 18-21 July.
Schäfer, S. & Foulkes, P. (2022) Assessing the individual voice recognition skills of earwitnesses. BAAP, University of York, 4-8 April.
Schäfer, S. & Foulkes, P. (2022) The impact of voice recognition skills on earwitness testimony. 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on Voice Identity (VoiceID): Perception, Production, and Computational Approaches. University of Zürich, Switzerland, 4-6 July.
Schäfer, S. & Foulkes, P. (2022) Voice memory as an estimator variable in lay speakeridentification tasks. IAFPA, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, 10-13 July.
Schäfer, S. & Foulkes, P. (2022) Individual voice recognition skills in lay speaker identification tasks. ISAPh 2022 (4th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics), Lund, Sweden, 14-16 September.
2021
Foulkes, P. (2021) Language analysis in the asylum process (LAAP/LADO): perspectives from sociophonetics. Invited contribution to Workshop on Technical Assistance for Capacity Building for Effective Nationality Determination Project, Istanbul, Turkey, 2-3 June.
Gibb-Reid, B., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V. & Walker, T. (2021a) I just called to say: The potential of the word just as a speaker discriminant. IAFPA, Marburg, Germany, 22-25 August.
Gibb-Reid, B., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V. & Walker, T. (2021b) I just thought like: The phonetic variation of just with applications to forensic voice comparison. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 5 (DiPVaC 5), University of Melbourne, Australia, 14-16 December.
Klug, K., Kirchhübel, C., Foulkes, P. & French, P. (2021) How robust are perceptual and acoustic observations of breathiness to telephone transmission? AISV 2021 - Speaker individuality in phonetics and speech sciences: Speech technology and forensic applications (XVII National Conference of the Italian Association for Speech Sciences), University of Zürich, Switzerland, 4-5 February.
Wang, X., Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P. (2021) System performance and speaker individuality in LR-based forensic voice comparison. AISV 2021 - Speaker individuality in phonetics and speech sciences: Speech technology and forensic applications (XVII National Conference of the Italian Association for Speech Sciences), University of Zürich, Switzerland, 4-5 February.
2020
Canberra Corpus Collective [Gerry Docherty, James Grama, Ksenia Gnevsheva, Jen Hay, James Brand, Simon Gonzalez, Debbie Loakes, Elena Sheard, Paul Foulkes, Chloé Diskin, Katie Drager, James Walker, & Catherine Travis] (2020a) Sound change in word classes and individual words in Australian and New Zealand English. BAAP, University of York, 1-3 April.
Canberra Corpus Collective [Ksenia Gnevsheva, James Grama, Chloé Diskin, Jen Hay, Paul Foulkes, Katie Drager, Catherine Travis, Simon Gonzalez, Debbie Loakes, Elena Sheard, Gerry Docherty & James Brand] (2020b) Word-specific phenomena in the realization of vowel categories: methodological and theoretical perspectives. Special session, Laboratory Phonology 17, Vancouver, Canada, 6-8 July. https://labphon.org/labphon17/ [postponed session held 1 October 2020]
Docherty, G.J., Gonzalez, S., Mitchell, N. & Foulkes, P. (2020) Refining the analysis of short front vowels in Australian English. BAAP, University of York, 1-3 April. [postponed to 2021]
Foulkes, P. (2020) Sociophonetics from a child's perspective. Invited talk to IndoPhon, 15 December.
Gully, A., Foulkes, P., French P, Harrison, P. & Hughes, V. (2020) Investigating articulatory setting using MRI: preliminary results. BAAP, University of York, 1-3 April. [postponed to 2021]
Klug, K., Kirchhübel, C., Foulkes, P. & French, P. (2020) How robust are perceptual and acoustic observations of breathiness to telephone transmission? BAAP, University of York, 1-3 April. [postponed to 2021]
Shaw, J., Best, C., Docherty, G.J., Evans, B., Foulkes, P., Hay, J. & Mulak, K. (2020) Finding phonological structure in vowel confusions across English accents. BLSW2020: Berkeley Linguistics Workshop 2020, 7-8 February.
Zhang, L., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P. & Chodroff, E. (2020) One million km2: Broad coverage of Mandarin Chinese dialects using smartphone technology. Workshop on Harnessing mobile technologies for the creation of new speech corpora from remote speech communities, Australian Linguistics Society, 14-15 December.
2019
Canberra Corpus Collective [Chloé Diskin, Jen Hay, Katie Drager, Paul Foulkes, Ksenia Gnevsheva, James Grama, James Brand, Catherine Travis, Debbie Loakes, Gerry Docherty, James Walker, Elena Sheard, & Simon Gonzalez] (2019a) The emergence of the discourse-pragmatic marker ‘just’:linking changes in usage to changes in pronunciation. New Zealand Linguistics Society, University of Canterbury, 28-19 November. https://www.nzlingsoc.org/conference/conference-2019/
Canberra Corpus Collective [Ksenia Gnevsheva, James Grama, Jen Hay, Katie Drager, Paul Foulkes, James Brand, Simon Gonzalez,Catherine Travis, Elena Sheard, Debbie Loakes, Gerry Docherty, & Chloé Diskin] (2019b) Just a word: Lexeme-specific sound changes. Australian Linguistics Society, Macquarie University, 11-13 December. https://als.asn.au/Conference/Conference2019/Conference2019
Cardoso, A., Foulkes, P., French P, Gully, A., Harrison, P. & Hughes, V. (2019) Forensic voice comparison using long-term acoustic measures of voice quality. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne.
Docherty, G.J., Gonzalez, S. & Foulkes, P. (2019) The realisation of unstressed KIT vowels in the conversational speech of young people from Perth. Australian Linguistics Society, Macquarie University, 11-13 December. https://als.asn.au/Conference/Conference2019/Conference2019
Docherty, G.J., Gonzalez, S., Mitchell, N. & Foulkes, P. (2019) An acoustic analysis of short front vowel realizations in the conversational style of young English speakers from Western Australia. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne.
Foulkes, P. (2019) Sociophonetics from the child's perspective. 9th annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture, Queen Mary, London [KEYNOTE].
Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G.J. (2019) It all comes out in the wash? Striking a balance in the analysis of speech corpora. Workshop on sociophonetics, Australian National University.
Gully, A., Foulkes, P., French P, Harrison, P. & Hughes, V. (2019a) Examining articulatory settings using MRI: pilot results. IAFPA, Istanbul.
Gully, A., Foulkes, P., French P, Harrison, P. & Hughes, V. (2019b) The Lombard effect in MRI noise. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne.
Hoskin, J. & Foulkes, P. (2019) Shifting the burden: towards more robust and transparent procedures for LAAP. Australian Linguistics Society, Macquarie University, 11-13 December. https://als.asn.au/Conference/Conference2019/Conference2019
Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P, French P, & Gully, A. (2019) Effects of formant settings and channel mismatch on semi-automatic systems in forensic voice comparison. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne.
Klug, K., Kirchhübel, C., Foulkes, P. & French, P. (2019) Analysing breathy voice in forensic speaker comparison: using acoustics to confirm perception. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne.
Shaw, J., Best, C., Docherty, G.J., Evans, B., Foulkes, P., Hay, J. & Mulak, K. (2019) An information theoretic perspective on perceptual structure: cross-accent vowel perception. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne.
Sutton, S., Foulkes, P., Kirk, D. & Lawson, S. (2019) Voice as a design material: making space for sociophonetics in Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2019 (ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), Glasgow.
Wang, X., Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P. (2019) The effect of speaker sampling on system validity in likelihood ratio based forensic voice comparison. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne.
2018
Cardoso, A., Foulkes, P. French, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Kavanagh, C. & San Segundo, E. (2018) Voice quality of hesitations: acoustic measures and VPA rating. IAFPA 27, University of Huddersfield, UK.
Docherty, G., Gonzalez, S., Mitchell, N. & Foulkes, P. (2018) Social and contextual influences on variability in the realisation of vowels in conversations between young people from Perth. 2nd Workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Foulkes, P. (2018) Sociophonetics from a child’s perspective. 2nd Workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. [KEYNOTE]
Foulkes, P. French, P., San Segundo, E., Harrison, P. & Hughes, V. (2018) Methodological issues in inter-rater agreement in voice quality analysis. Workshop on Voice Quality Analysis, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P. French, P., Kavanagh, C. & San Segundo, E. (2018a) The complementarity of automatic, semi-automatic, and phonetic measures of vocal tract output in forensic voice comparison. Poster, BAAP Colloquium, University of Kent, UK.
Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P. French, P., Kavanagh, C. & San Segundo, E. (2018b) The individual and the system: assessing the stability of the output of a semi-automatic forensic voice comparison system. Interspeech, Hyderabad, India.
Klug, K., Kirchhübel, C., Foulkes, P. & French, P. (2018a) Analysing voice quality as a component of forensic speaker comparison. 19th Conference on Spoken English (ALOES 2018), Paris 13 University - Villetaneuse, France.
Klug, K., Kirchhübel, C., Foulkes, P. & French, P. (2018b) Analysing voice quality as a component of forensic speaker comparison. IAFPA 27, University of Huddersfield, UK.
Sutton, S. & Foulkes, P. (2018) Speech on YouTube – Vloggers and testing theories of style. Poster, BAAP Colloquium, University of Kent, UK.
Tasker, S., Sóskuthy, M. & Foulkes, P. (2018) How many reduced vowels are there in English? A Bayesian process-based approach. Poster, Laboratory Phonology 18, Lisbon, Portugal.
Wang, X., Hughes, V. & Foulkes P. (2018) A preliminary investigation of the effect of speaker randomisation in likelihood-ratio based forensic voice comparison. Poster, IAFPA 27, University of Huddersfield, UK.
Wood, G., Foulkes, P & Kerswill, P. (2018) Title TBC. Urban Futures: Language-based Discrimination, University of Sheffield, UK, 12th October. [Invited]
2017
Cao, W.L., Foulkes, P. & Sóskuthy, M. (2017). Short-term accommodation of non-native speakers: a perspective of second language acquisition. 50th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Zurich, Switzerland. (Awarded Best Conference Paper for PhD students)
Foulkes, P. (2017) Criminal voices: an outline of forensic speech science. Seminar, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy, 10 April.
Foulkes, P. (2017) Sociophonetic perspectives on first language acquisition. Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan, University College, London. [KEYNOTE]
Foulkes, P. & Hay, J. (2017) The evolution of medial /t/ over real and remembered time. Seminar, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy, 11 April.
Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P. (2017) What is the relevant population? Considerations for the computation of likelihood ratios in forensic voice comparison. Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden.
Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P. French, P., Kavanagh, C. & San Segundo, E. (2017) The complementarity of automatic, semi-automatic, and phonetic measures of vocal tract output in forensic voice comparison. IAFPA 26, Split, Croatia.
Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P. French, P., Kavanagh, C. & San Segundo, E. (2017) Mapping across feature spaces in forensic voice comparison: the contribution of auditory-based voice quality to (semi-)automatic system testing. Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kavanagh, C., Foulkes, P. French, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V. & San Segundo, E. (2017) Voice and Identity: applications and limitations of the voice as a biometric. CREST Workshop: Current state of the art, and future directions for linguistic analysis in a security context. London, 2 October.
San Segundo, E., Braun, A., Foulkes, P. & Hughes, V. (2017) Speaker-similarity perception of Spanish twins and non-twins by native speakers of Spanish, German and English. Poster, IAFPA 26, Split, Croatia.
San Segundo, E., Foulkes, P. French, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V. & Kavanagh, C. (2017) Cluster analysis of voice quality ratings: identifying groups of perceptually similar speakers. Phonetics & Phonology 13, Berlin, Germany.
2016
Best, C.T., Shaw, J.A., Docherty, G., Evans, B.G., Foulkes, P., Hay, J. (2016a) In the beholder’s ear: perceiving English vowels across Sydney, London, York and Newcastle accents. 1st Workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Best, C.T., Shaw, J.A., Docherty, G., Evans, B.G., Foulkes, P., Hay, J. (2016b) Can accent pre-exposure tune the beholder's ear to shifted vowel systems? The Role of Predictability in Shaping Human Language Systems (satellite event to SST 2016). Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
Docherty, G., Gonzalez, S., Mitchell, N. & Foulkes, P. (2016a) A study of the realisation of word-medial and word-final pre-pausal (t) in the conversational speech of young people from Perth. 1st Workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Docherty, G., Gonzalez, S., Mitchell, N. & Foulkes, P. (2016b) Variability in the realisation of vowels in the conversational speech of young people from Perth. 1st Workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Docherty, G., Gonzalez, S., Mitchell, N. & Foulkes, P. (2016c) A dynamic perspective on sociophonetic variability in the realisation of vowels in Australian English. Speech dynamics, social meaning, and phonological categories. Laboratory Phonology 15 Satellite Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Docherty, G., Gonzalez, S., Mitchell, N. & Foulkes, P. (2016d) Sociophonetic variability in the realization of /t/ in West Australian English. Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST 2016), Western Sydney University, Australia.
Foulkes, P. and Hughes, V. (2016) To uuuhhh is human, for guilt divine. New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) Seminar, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. 1st February 2016.
French, P., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V. & San Segundo, E. (2016) Developing the vocal profile analysis scheme for forensic voice comparison. BAAP Colloquium, Lancaster University.
Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P. (2016) Speaker- and group-specific information in formant dynamics: a forensic perspective. Speech dynamics, social meaning, and phonological categories. Laboratory Phonology 15 Satellite Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Hughes, V., Foulkes, P. & Wood, S. (2016) Formant dynamics and durations of um improve the performance of automatic speaker recognition systems. Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST 2016), Western Sydney University, Australia.
Neocleous, T., Napier, G., Aitken, C., Foulkes, P., French, P., Gold, E., Harrison, P., Hughes, V. & Stevens, L. (2016) Models for forensic speaker comparison. Royal Statistical Society Conference, University of Manchester.
Ross, S., French, P. & Foulkes, P. (2016) UK practitioners' estimates of the distribution of speech variants. IAFPA 25, University of York.
San Segundo, E., Foulkes, P., French, P., Hughes, V. & Köster, O. (2016) Perceptual similarity of identical twins across different L1 listeners. BAAP Colloquium, Lancaster University.
San Segundo, E., Foulkes, P. & Hughes, V. (2016) Holistic perception of voice quality matters more than L1 when judging speaker similarity in short stimuli. Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST 2016), Western Sydney University, Australia.
San Segundo, E., French, P., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V. & Harrison, P. (2016) Voice quality analysis in forensic voice comparison: developing the vocal profile analysis scheme. IAFPA 25, University of York.
2015
Best, C.T., Shaw, J.A., Docherty, G., Evans, B.G., Foulkes, P., Hay, J., Al-Tamimi, J., Mair, K., Mulak, K.E. & Wood, S. (2015a) From Newcastle MOUTH to Aussie ears: Australians’ perceptual assimilation and adaptation for Newcastle UK vowels. Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany.
Best, C.T., Shaw, J.A., Docherty, G., Evans, B.G., Foulkes, P., Hay, J., Al-Tamimi, J., Mair, K., Mulak, K.E. & Wood, S. (2015b) Perceiving and adapting to regional accent differences among vowel subsystems. ICPhS, Glasgow. [poster]
Docherty, G.J., Gonzalez, S., Mitchell, N., Foulkes, P. & Bharadwaj, S. (2015) Mapping vowel realization in a new corpus of unscripted West Australian English. Variation, change and spoken corpora: advances in the phonology and phonetics of contemporary English (PAC 2015: Phonologie de l'Anglais Contemporain), Université Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France.
Foulkes, P. (2015a) Words in time: the effects of word frequency, word age, and discourse topic on the progression of sound change. French Association for Cognitive Linguistics (Aflico 6), Université Grenoble 3, France. [KEYNOTE]
Foulkes, P. (2015b) Sociophonetics - discussant session. ICPhS, Glasgow. [slides]
French, P., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V. & San Segundo, E. (2015) HASR --> AHSR. IAFPA, Leiden, Netherlands.
French, P., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., San Segundo, E. & Stevens, L. (2015a) Long term measures of the resonating vocal tract: establishing correlation and complementarity. IAFPA, Leiden, Netherlands.
French, P., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., San Segundo, E. & Stevens, L. (2015b) The vocal tract as a biometric: output measures, interrelationships, and efficacy. ICPhS, Glasgow.
Jeffries, E., Foulkes, P. & Llamas, C. (2015a) Pre-schoolers’ categorisation of speakers by phonological variables. International Child Phonology Conference, Memorial University Newfoundland, Canada.
Jeffries, E., Foulkes, P. & Llamas, C. (2015b) Pre-schoolers’ categorisation of speakers by regional accent. UKLVC 10, University of York.
Shaw, H. & Foulkes, P. (2015) Real time change in Prince William's speech. UKLVC 10, University of York.
Sóskuthy, M., Foulkes, P., Haddican, B., Hay, J. & Hughes, V. (2015) Word-level distributions and structural factors co-determine GOOSE fronting. ICPhS, Glasgow.
Wozniak, K., Haddican, B., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V. & Sóskuthy, M. (2015) The exceptionality of Tyneside back vowel fronting. Poster, NWAV 44, Toronto, Canada.
2014
Docherty, G., Gonzalez, S., Mitchell, N. & Foulkes, P. (2014) Variability in the realisation of West Australian vowels. Australian Linguistic Society, University of Newcastle, Australia.
Foulkes, P. & Hay, J. (2014) The evolution of medial /t/ in real and remembered time. 2° Interannual Meeting of the Società di Linguistica Italiana: Usage-based Theories and Approaches in Linguistics. Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy [invited plenary].
Hughes, V. and Foulkes, P. (2014a) Defining the relevant population according to class and age when computing numerical likelihood ratios for forensic voice comparison. BAAP Conference, University of Oxford, UK.
Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P. (2014b) Regional variation and the definition of the relevant population in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison using MFCCs. Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference (ASSTA 2014), University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Hughes, V., French, J.P., Foulkes, P., Gold, E., Harrison, P. and Watt, D. (2014) Comparison of LRs based on MVKD and GMM-UBM. 2nd International Workshop of the 2011 Monopoly Project 'Methodological Guidelines for Semi-Automatic and Automatic Speaker Recognition for Case Assessment and Interpretation', Wiesbaden, Germany. 18th November 2014. [invited]
Hughes, V., Gold, E., Foulkes, P., French, P., Harrison, P., Stevens, L., Aitken, C., Neocleous, T., Napier, G. & Medina, V. (2014) Modelling features for forensic speaker comparison. Poster presented at IAFPA conference, Zürich, Switzerland.
Jeffries, E., Foulkes, P. & Llamas, C. (2014) Pre-schoolers’ categorisation of speakers by regional accent. Variation in Language Acquisition 2 (ViLA 2), Université Grenoble 3, France.
Keren-Portnoy, T., DePaolis, R., Foulkes, P. & Vihman, M. (2014) Variable stress in input speech to infants in the UK and the US. BAAP Conference, University of Oxford, UK.
Neocleous, T., Aitken, C., Foulkes, P., French, P., Gold, E., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Stevens, L., Napier, G. & Medina, V. (2014) Evidence evaluation for forensic voice comparison. Poster presented at the International Conference of Forensic Inference and Statistics, Leiden, Netherlands.
Shaw, J.A., Best, C.T., Mulak, K., Docherty, G., Evans, B.G., Foulkes, P., Hay, J., Al-Tamimi, J., Mair, K., Peek, M. & Wood, S. (2014) Effects of short-term exposure to unfamiliar regional accents: Australians' categorization of London and York English consonants. Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference (ASSTA 2014), University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Sóskuthy, M., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V., Hay, J. and Haddican, B. (2014) A szó- és kategória-alapú ábrázolások interakciója a derbyi angol /u:/ fonetikai megvalósításában (The internaction of word- and category-based representations in the phonetic realisation of Derby English /u:/). Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. 10th April 2014.
Vihman, M. & Foulkes, P. (2014) First language acquisition and phonological change. Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Wood, S., Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P. (2014) Filled pauses as variables in speaker comparison: dynamic formant analysis and duration measurements improve performance. IAFPA conference, Zürich, Switzerland.
Wright, S., Shaw, J.A., Best, C.T., Docherty, G., Evans, B.G., Foulkes, P., Hay, J. & Mulak, K. (2014) Improvements to vowel categorization in non-native regional accents resulting from multiple- versus single-talker training: a computational approach. Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference (ASSTA 2014), University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
2013
Dixon, G., Foulkes, P. & LaShell, P. (2013) Lay listener judgments of pitch. IAFPA conference, Tampa, Florida, USA
Foulkes, P. (2013) 2013: a speaker space odyssey. VALP2 Conference, University of Canterbury, NZ. [KEYNOTE]
Foulkes, P. (2013) A glass menagerie. Response to papers by Hollien, and by Lea & Harnsberger. IAFPA conference, Tampa, Florida, USA. [invited discussant]
Foulkes, P. & Hay, J. (2013) The evolution of medial /t/ in real and remembered time. UKLVC9, University of Sheffield.
French, P., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P., Stevens, L. & Gold, E. (2013) A comparison of Batvox and other vocal output measures for speaker comparison. Agnitio User Club, The Hague, Netherlands, 14-15 March 2013.
Hughes, V. and Foulkes, P. (2013) The role of regional variation in the quantification of strength-of-evidence for forensic voice comparison. VALP2 Conference, University of Canterbury, NZ.
Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P. (2013) (Socio)linguistic considerations for defining the relevant population. IAFPA conference, Tampa, Florida, USA
Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Haddican, B. & LaShell, P. (2013) Lexical competition, frequency and the fronting of back vowels in northern British Englishes. UKLVC9, University of Sheffield.
Hughes, V., Haddican, B. & Foulkes, P. (2013) The dynamics of variation and change in Manchester English back vowels. VALP2 Conference, University of Canterbury, NZ.
King, J., Foulkes, P., French, P. & Hughes, V. (2013) Hesitation markers as a parameter for forensic speaker comparison. IAFPA conference, Tampa, Florida, USA
2012
Foulkes, P. (2012) Applications of sociophonetics to the forensic domain. The Social Side of Speech Workshop, MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Australia. [invited plenary]
Foulkes, P. & French, P. (2012) Individual speaker characterisation: the voice as a biometric. Forensic Evidence and Silent Marks in 2020, Estonian Forensic Science Institute, Tallinn, Estonia. [invited plenary]
French, P. & Foulkes, P. (2012) Individual speaker characterisation: theoretical and empirical research at the University of York. Home Office Biometrics Working Group, London, UK. [invited plenary]
French, P., Foulkes, P., Harrison, P. & Stevens, L. (2012) Vocal tract output measures: relative efficacy, interrelationships and limitations. International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics conference, Universidad Internacional Menedez Pelayo, Santander, Spain.
Hughes, V. and Foulkes, P. (2012) Effects of variability on numerical likelihood ratio calculations for forensic voice comparison. BAAP 2012 Colloquium, University of Leeds, UK.
Hughes, V. and Foulkes, P. (2012) Effects of variation on the computation of numerical likelihood ratios for forensic voice comparison. International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics conference, Universidad Internacional Menedez Pelayo, Santander, Spain.
Hughes, V., Haddican, B. & Foulkes, P. (2012) The dynamics of variation and change in Manchester English back vowels. NWAV 41, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
2011
Flynn, N. & Foulkes, P. (2011) Comparing vowel formant normalization methods. 17th ICPhS, Hong Kong.
Foulkes, P. (2011) Individual variability in English pronunciation: applications in the forensic domain. Linguistic Society of South Africa/2nd English Pronunciation in Practice Conference, Rhodes University, South Africa. [KEYNOTE]
Foulkes, P. (2011) A forensic phonetic perspective on LADO practice: comments on Cambier-Langeveld. ESRC LADO Network Seminar, University of Essex, UK. [invited discussant]
Foulkes, P. & Wilson, K. (2011) Language analysis for the determination of origin: an empirical study. 17th ICPhS, Hong Kong.
Haddican, B., Richards, H., Foulkes, P. & Hughes, V. (2011) Social correlates of changes in mid-vowel in Northern England, NWAV 40, Georgetown University, USA.
Hughes, V., Foulkes, P., Haddican, B. & Richards, H. (2011) Vowel variation in Manchester: a dynamic approach. UKLVC8, Edge Hill University, UK. [poster]
Thaitechawat, S. & Foulkes, P. (2011) Discrimination of speakers using tone and formant dynamics in Thai. 17th ICPhS, Hong Kong.
2010
Foulkes, P. (2010) Current issues in forensic phonetics. Second International Workshop on Forensic Linguistics/Language and the Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. [invited plenary]
Foulkes, P. (2010) Language analysis for the determination of origin. Forensic Phonetics - Problems, Limitations and Promises, University of Arhus, Denmark. [invited plenary]
Foulkes, P. (2010) Language analysis for the determination of origin. Inaugural Workshop of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Wilson, K. & Foulkes, P. (2010) Language analysis for the determination of origin. an empirical study of native speakers, LADO professionals and phoneticians. Gothenburg workshop on language analysis (GoWLA), University of Gothenburg, Sweden. [invited plenary]
Wilson, K. & Foulkes, P. (2010) Language analysis for the determination of origin. an empirical study of native speakers, LADO professionals and phoneticians. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics conference, University of Trier, Germany.
2009
Docherty, G., Langstrof, C. & Foulkes, P. (2009) Listener evaluation of sociophonetic variability. probing constraints and capabilities. Production, Perception, Attitude, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Evans, I. & Foulkes, P. (2009) Speaker identification in whisper. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics conference, University of Cambridge, UK.
Hughes, V., McDougall, K. and Foulkes, P. (2009) Diphthong dynamics in unscripted speech. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics conference, University of Cambridge, UK.
Richards, H., Haddican, B. & Foulkes, P. (2009) Exhibiting standards in the FACE of dialect levelling. ICLaVE 5, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Richards, H., Haddican, B. & Foulkes, P. (2009) FACE values. variation in mid vowels in York. UKLVC7, Newcastle University, UK.
Yaeger-Dror, M, Kendall, T., Foulkes, P., Watt, D., Oddie, J., Harrison, P. & Kavanagh, C. (2009) Trained listener judgments of rhoticity in English. What R we hearing? Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, USA.
2008
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (2008) Inter- and intra-speaker variation: some methodological consequences for sociophonetic research. Acoustics ’08, Paris, France. [invited]
Docherty, G., Langstrof, C. & Foulkes, P. (2008) Perceptual evaluation of sociophonetic variability: how do listeners learn? Laboratory Phonology 11, Wellington, New Zealand. [poster]
Docherty, G., Langstrof, C. & Foulkes, P.(2008) How is sociophonetic variability learned? BAAP Colloquium, Sheffield, UK.
Foulkes, P. (2008) Exploring social-indexical knowledge. a long past but a short history. Laboratory Phonology 11, Wellington, New Zealand. [KEYNOTE]
Foulkes, P. (2008) Identifying terrorists’ voices. First International Eurasian Congress of Forensic Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. [invited plenary]
Foulkes, P. (2008) Criminal Voices. Human Communication Science SummerFest ’08, Sydney, Australia. [invited plenary]
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G., Khattab, G. & Yaeger-Yaeger-Dror, M. (2008) Sound judgements: perception of indexical features in children’s speech. Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Haddican, B. & Foulkes, P. (2008) Two sound change reversals in Basque. NWAV 37, Houston, TX, USA.
Haddican, B. & Foulkes, P. (2008) Erdiko bokalen igoera eta bigarren bokalen ezabatzea Oiartzunen. Workshop on Basque, Baiona/Bayonne, Spain.
Yaeger-Dror, M, Kendall, T., Foulkes, P., Watt, D., Oddie, J., Harrison, P. & Kavanagh, C. (2008) Perception of r-fulness by trained listeners. NWAV 37, Houston, TX, USA.
2007
Foulkes, P. (2007) Sociophonetics – retrospect and prospect. Linguistic Society of South Africa, Potchefstroom, South Africa. [KEYNOTE]
2006
Blatchford, H. & Foulkes, P. (2006) A study in applied sociophonetics: identification of voices in shouted speech. BAAP Colloquium, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, UK.
Blatchford, H. & Foulkes, P. (2006) Identification of voices in shouting. Sociolinguistic Symposium 16, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Clark, J. & Foulkes, P. (2006) Identification of voices in disguised speech. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Foulkes, P. (2006) Forensic speaker identification: phonetic and linguistic perspectives. IEEE Speaker Odyssey, University of Puerto Rico. [KEYNOTE]
2005
Blatchford, H. & Foulkes, P. (2005) Identification of voices in shouting. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics conference, Marrakech, Morocco.
Foulkes, P. (2005) Best practices in sociophonetics: stops. NWAV34, New York University, USA. [invited]
Foulkes, P. (2005) Forensic phonetics and sociolinguistics (Workshop). NWAV34, New York University, USA.
Foulkes, P. (2005) The social life of phonetics and phonology. 5th UK Language Variation Conference, University of Aberdeen, UK. [KEYNOTE]
2004
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Khattab, G. (2004) Social-indexical variability and speech perception: an experimental study. BAAP Colloquium, University of Cambridge, UK.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Khattab, G. (2004) Social-indexical variability and speech perception: an experimental study. Variation and Change in Phonology and Phonetics, University of Potsdam, Germany.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Khattab, G. (2004) Social-indexical variability and speech perception: an experimental study. NWAV 33, University of Michigan, USA.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Watt, D. (2003) The phonetic properties of 'pre-aspirated' variants of (p, t, k) in the north-east of England. BAAP Colloquium, University of Cambridge, UK.
Foulkes, P., Carrol, G. & Hughes, S. (2004) Sociolinguistic and acoustic variability in filled pauses. International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics conference, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Foulkes, P., Carrol, G. & Hughes, S. (2004) Sociolinguistic and acoustic variability in filled pauses. Sociolinguistic Symposium 15, Newcastle University, UK.
Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G. (2004) Combining the lexical and indexical. Linguistic Society of America, Boston, USA. [invited]
2003
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Watt, D. (2003) The phonetic properties of 'pre-aspirated' variants of (p, t, k) in the north-east of England. 4th UK Language Variation Conference, University of Sheffield, UK.
Foulkes, P. (2003) Fieldwork for studies of phonological variation. XVth ICPhS, Universitat Autonomá de Barcelona, Spain.
Foulkes, P., Carrol, G. & Hughes, S. (2003) Sociolinguistic and acoustic variability in filled pauses. International Association for Forensic Phonetics conference, Vienna, Austria.
Watt, D.J.L., Docherty, G.J., & Foulkes P. (2003) First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child-directed speech. XVth ICPhS, Universitat Autonomá de Barcelona, Spain.
Watt, D.J.L., Docherty, G.J., & Foulkes P. (2003) First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child-directed speech. Second International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
2002
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (2002) Phonological acquisition: endowments and paths. On the emergence of (t) variants in Tyneside English. 10th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK. [invited]
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Tillotson, J. & Watt, D. (2002) On the emergence of structured phonological variation. 8th Laboratory Phonology Conference, Yale University, USA.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Tillotson, J. & Watt, D. (2002) Phonological variation in child-directed speech. BAAP Colloquium, Newcastle University, UK.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Tillotson, J. & Watt, D. (2002) Phonological variation in child-directed speech. Conference on English Phonology, Université Toulouse Le Mirail, France.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Tillotson, J. & Watt, D. (2002) Phonological variation in child-directed speech. Methods XI: Eleventh International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Joensuu, Finland.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Tillotson, J. & Watt, D. (2002) Investigating variation in children's speech. Methods XI: Eleventh International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Joensuu, Finland.
2001
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Tillotson, J. & Watt, D. (2001) On the emergence of structured phonological variation. Workshop on Early Phonological Acquisition, Carry-le-Rouet, France.
Foulkes, P. (2001) Current trends in British sociophonetics. NWAV 30, University of North Carolina, Raleigh. [invited plenary]
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G., Tillotson, J. & Watt, D.J.L. (2005) Phonological variation in child directed speech. 3rd UK Language Variation Conference, University of York, UK.
2000
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (2000) Variation in (r) production: instrumental perspectives. ‘R-atics, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. [invited]
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Parsons, E., Thompson, J. & Watt, D. (2000) Phonological variation in child-directed speech. VIEW 2000, University of Essex, UK.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Watt, D. (2000) Tracking the emergence of structured variation in 2-4 year olds. ICLaVE 1, Barcelona, Spain.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Watt, D. (2000) Acquisition of (t) variants in Newcastle English. BAAP 2000, University of Glasgow, UK.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Watt, D. (2000) The case for non-invariance: evidence from the acquisition of patterns of consonant realisation by Tyneside children. Symposium on Patterns of Speech Sounds in Unscripted Communication: Production-Perception, Phonology. Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Tillotson, J., Thompson, J. & Watt, D. (2000) Phonological variation in child-directed speech. NWAV 29, Michigan State University, USA.
Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G. (2000) Variation and change in British English (r). ‘R-atics, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. [invited]
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G. & Watt, D. (2000) Tracking the emergence of sociophonetic variation in 2-4 year olds. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G. & Watt, D. (2000) Tracking the emergence of sociophonetic variation in 2-4 year-olds. NWAV 29, Michigan State University, USA.
1999
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P. & Watt, D. (1999) Tracking the emergence of sociophonetic variation. Child Phonology Conference, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (1999) Sociophonetic variation in ‘glottals’ in Newcastle English. 14th ICPhS, San Francisco, USA.
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G. & Watt, D.J.L. (1999) Tracking the emergence of sociophonetic variation in 2 to 4 year olds. 14th ICPhS, San Francisco, USA.
1998
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (1998) Patterns of occurrence of glottal variants in Tyneside English. BAAP Colloquium, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G. (1998) A sociophonetic study of 'labiodental' /r/ in Derby and Newcastle English. Sociolinguistics Symposium 12, Institute of Education, London, UK.
Foulkes, P. & Docherty, G. (1998) Variation in the realisation of glottals in Tyneside English. Harold Orton Centenary Conference, University of Leeds, UK.
1997
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (1997) Variation in the realisation of 'released' /t/ in Tyneside and Derby varieties of English. First UK Language Variation Workshop, University of Reading, UK.
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (1997) Variation in the realisation of 'released' /t/ in Tyneside and Derby English. NWAV 26, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada.
1996
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (1996) A corpus-based account of variation in the realisation of 'released' /t/ in English. Australian Speech Science and Technology 96 Conference. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (1996) The burrs are back in Toon. Reading Experimental Phonetics Symposium, University of Reading, UK.
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (1996) The phonetic characteristics of released stops in coda position in two varieties of British English. BAAP Colloquium, University of York, UK.
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (1996) Laboratory phonology in the field: corpus-based evidence and the evaluation of phonological theory. 5th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Northwestern University, USA. [poster]
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Milroy, J. & Milroy, L. (1996) Workshop on the Data of Linguistics, University of Salford, UK. [invited]
Foulkes, P. (1996) Rule inversion in a British English dialect - a sociolinguistic investigation of [r]-sandhi in Newcastle upon Tyne. NWAV 25, Las Vegas, USA.
Foulkes, P. (1996) Historical linguistics and experimental phonetics. Special session on New Cognates for Historical Linguistics, Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Sussex, UK. [invited]
Foulkes, P. (1996) Linking and intrusive /r/ in English: a sociolinguistic perspective. Sociolinguistics Symposium 11, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
1995
Docherty, G. & Foulkes, P. (1995) Acoustic profiling of glottal and glottalised variants of English stops. XIIIth ICPhS, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Milroy, J. & Milroy, L. (1995) What is a phonological fact? The relationship between theory and data. International Workshop on Language Variation and Linguistic Theory, University of Nijmegen.
Docherty, G., Foulkes, P., Milroy, J., Milroy, L. & Oxley, P. (1995) Conversational and phonological factors governing the 'final release rule' in Tyneside English. XIIIth ICPhS, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Foulkes, P., Docherty, G., Milroy, J. & Milroy, L. (1995) The 'final release rule' in Tyneside English: phonological and conversational constraints on variation. 3rd Phonology Workshop [mfm], University of Manchester, UK.
1994
Foulkes, P. (1994) Historical laboratory phonology: theoretical implications of /p/ -> /f/ -> /h/ changes. Second Phonology Workshop [mfm], University of Manchester, UK.
1993
Foulkes, P. (1994) Historical laboratory phonology: theoretical implications of /p/ -> /f/ -> /h/ changes. Belgian Linguistic Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
McMahon, A., Foulkes, P. & Tollfree, L. (1993) Gestures and the phonology-phonology interface. Cognitive Phonology Workshop [mfm], University of Manchester, UK.