Recent papers

in press & forthcoming

Foulkes, P. & Hughes, V. (under review) Dialectological and sociolinguistic foundations of forensic speaker comparison. To appear in Nolan, F., McDougall, K. & Hudson, T. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Forensic Phonetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hudson, T., McDougall, K. and Hughes, V. (accepted subject to revisions) Forensic speech science. In J. Setter and R-A. Knight (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics.

2020

Bradshaw, L., Hughes, V. & Chodroff, E. (2020) Investigating the forensic applications of global and local temporal representations of speech for dialect discrimination. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020. [pdf]

Hughes, V. & Wormald, J. (2020) Sharing innovative methods, data and knowledge across sociophonetics and forensic speech science. Linguistics Vanguard 6(1), special issue on Innovative Methods in Sociophonetics. [Author version]

2019

Cardoso, A., Foulkes, P., French P, Gully, A., Harrison, P. & Hughes, V. (2019) Forensic voice comparison using long-term acoustic measures of voice quality. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

Foulkes, P., French, P. & Wilson, K. (2019) LADO as forensic speaker profiling. In P. Patrick, M. Schmid, & K. Zwaan (eds.) Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin. Cham: Springer, pp. 91-116.

Gold, E., & French, P. (2019) International practices in forensic speaker comparisons: second survey. International Journal of Speech, Language & the Law 26(1): 1-20.

Gully, A., Foulkes, P., French, J. P., Harrison, P. and Hughes, V. (2019) The Lombard effect in MRI noise. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia. pp. 800-804.

Hoskin, J., Cambier-Langeveld, T. & Foulkes, P. (2019) Improving objectivity, balance and forensic fitness in LAAP: a response to Matras. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 26(2): 257-277.

Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P., French, J. P. and Gully, A. (2019) Effects of formant settings and channel mismatch on semi-automatic systems in forensic voice comparison. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia. pp. 3080-3084. *The performance of every configuration of formant settings is displayed here

Hughes, V., Cardoso, A., Foulkes, P., French, J. P., Harrison, P. and Gully, A. (2019) Forensic voice comparison using long-term acoustic measures of voice quality. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia. pp. 1455-1459. *The performance of the MFCCs-only and the fusion of MFCCs and VQ is displayed here

Hughes, V. and Wormald, J. (2019) Sharing innovative methods, data and knowledge across sociophonetics and forensic speech science. Linguistics Vanguard 5(4), special issue on Innovative Methods in Sociophonetics. [Author version]

Klug, K., Kirchhübel, C., Foulkes, P. & French, P. (2019) Analysing breathy voice in forensic speaker comparison: using acoustics to confirm perception. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

Lo, J. (2019) Between äh(m) and euh(m): the distribution and realisation of filled pauses in the speech of German–French simultaneous bilinguals. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919890068

McDougall, K., Rhodes, R., Duckworth, M., French, P. & Kirchhübel, C. (2019) Application of the TOFFA framework to the analysis of disfluencies in forensic phonetic casework. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

San Segundo, E., Foulkes, P. French, P., Harrison, P., Hughes, V. & Kavanagh, C. (2019) The use of the Vocal Profile Analysis for speaker characterization: methodological proposals. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 49(3): 353-380.

Wang, B., Hughes, V. and Foulkes, P. (2019a) The effect of speaker sampling in likelihood ratio based forensic voice comparison. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 26(1): 97-120. [Author version]

Wang, B., Hughes, V. and Foulkes, P. (2019b) Effect of score sampling on system stability in likelihood ratio based forensic voice comparison. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia. pp. 3065-3069.

Watt, D., Harrison, P.S. & Cabot-King, L. (2019) Who owns your voice? Linguistic and legal perspectives on the relationship between vocal distinctiveness and the rights of the individual speaker. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 26(2): 137-180.

2018

Braun, A., Llamas, C., Watt, D., French, P. & Robertson, D. (2018) Sub-regional ‘other-accent’ effects on lay listeners’ speaker identification abilities: a voice line-up study with speakers and listeners from the North East of England. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 25: 231-255.

Channon, A., Foulkes, P. & Walker, T. (2018) But what is the reason why you know such things?’: Question and response patterns in the LADO interview. Journal of Pragmatics 129: 154-172.

Dellwo, V., French, J. P. & He, L. (2018) Voice biometrics for forensic speaker recognition applications. In S. Frühholz & P. Belin (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 777-798.

Hughes, V., Harrison, P., Foulkes, P., French, J. P., Kavanagh, C. and San Segundo, E. (2018) The individual and the system: assessing the stability of the output of a semi-automatic forensic voice comparison system. Proceedings of Interspeech. Hyderabad, India. pp. 227-231.

Hughes, V. and Rhodes, R. (2018) Questions, propositions and assessing different levels of evidence: forensic voice comparison in practice. Science and Justice 58(4): 250-257. [Author version] [Corrigendum]

Mileva, M., Tompkinson, J., Watt, D. & Burton, A. M. (2018) Audiovisual integration in social evaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 44(1): 128-138.

Tompkinson, J. & Watt, D. (2018) Assessing the abilities of phonetically untrained listeners to determine pitch and speaker accent in unfamiliar voices. Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito 5(1): 19-37.