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Vincent's research interests lie in forensic speech science, phonetics, phonology, sociophonetics and sociolinguistics. His current research focuses on understanding the bases and limitations of individual speaker characterisation and the relative contribution of acoustic, auditory and biological information. He is also interested in the application of the numerical likelihood ratio framework to the evaluation of speech evidence in forensic voice comparison cases. His doctoral research considered how the definition of the relevant population with regard to regional and social dimensions of variability and sample size affect the numerical estimation of the strength of evidence.
Carmen Llamas is a sociolinguist with a particular interest in phonological variation and change. She was appointed Lecturer in Sociolinguistics in 2007. Carmen's research interests lie in phonological variation and processes of change. She is particularly interested in the identity-making and –marking functions of language and also in sociolinguistic fieldwork methods.
Thomas is a sociolinguist and phonetician with interests in historical linguistics, vowel phonology, and language documentation and revitalization. For his PhD research at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, he analysed ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) vowel phonetics and interspeaker variation in archival recordings. He has also conducted research on the production, perception, and social evaluation of the Canadian Vowel Shift in Montréal. His work on Southern British English has included a phonetic, phonological, and historical analysis of /æ/-lengthening in words like 'bad' as well as ongoing work on how Queen Elizabeth II's vocal quality and pre-aspiration have changed over her lifespan.
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