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Department of Linguistics

ROBERT MANNELL - RESEARCH PAGES

Research Students

Current Students

I am the principal supervisor of the following Ph.D. candidates. I am also the associate supervisor of several additional students (not listed below).

  1. Yoshito Hirozane
    • Perception of speech rate by Japanese L2 speakers of English
    • Associate Supervisor: Linda Cupples
  2. Dahlia Sartika
    • Indonesian speech audiometry tests for children
    • Associate Supervisor: Philip Newall

Former Students

I have supervised a number of research students who have been awarded a Ph.D. or a M.A.(Hons). They are:-

  1. Vijay Mohan Raaja Marimuthu, (2013). Pitch Perception In Cochlear Implants (Associate Supervisor: Bill Thompson, Adjunct Supervisor: Brett Swanson) (Completion confirmed, awaiting graduation)
  2. Saeed Saad AlSurf, (2013). The Phonetics of the Qur'anic pharyngealised sounds: Acoustic and Articulatory studies, Ph.D.
  3. Anuradha Sengar, (2012). Modelling Hindi intonation for speech synthesis, Ph.D.
  4. Shuo (Shannon) Wang , (2012). Lexical Tone Recognition in Mandarin: Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired, Ph.D. (Associate Supervisor: Philip Newall)
  5. Victor Khachan, (2005). Vocal Behaviour as a Group Characteristic: A Socio-Acoustic Study across Four Villages in North Lebanon, Ph.D.
  6. Jing Wang, (2004). Rhythmic grouping, tone sandhi and stress in Beijing Mandarin. Ph.D.
  7. Michael Carey (2003) An L1-specific CALL pedagogy for the instruction of pronunciation with Korean learners of English, Ph.D.
  8. Cécile Pereira, (2001) Perception and expression of emotion in speech, Ph.D. (Associate Supervisor: Philip Newall)
  9. Kwok-Cheung Ho, (2001) A study of Cantonese speaking teachers’ acquisition of the pronunciation of Putonghua (Mandarin), Ph.D.
  10. Dong-Ki Kim (2001) Three-stage lexical access based on knowledge sources in very large vocabulary isolated word speech recognition, Ph.D.
  11. Lydia So, (1996) The acquisition of Cantonese phonology: Normal and Disordered, Ph.D.
  12. Pam Dawson, (1990) A training method for profoundly deaf children, M.A.(Hons)