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Rachael-Anne Knight

Dr. Knight is a phonetician with particular interest in the production and perception of intonation.  She has held numerous teaching positions and since 2005 has been a lecturer at City University London.

BA, English Language and Linguistics and English Literature
Roehampton University

MSc, Speech and Hearing Sciences
University College London

PhD, Linguistics
University of Cambridge

Dissertation title:  Peaks and Plateaux: the production and perception of intonational high targets in English

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Mark Jones

Dr. Jones' interests are in the phonetics and phonology of speech sounds, both in varieties of English and in other languages.  He is currently a British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.

BA, Modern and Medieval Languages
University of Cambridge

MPhil, Linguistics
University of Cambridge

PhD, Linguistics
University of Cambridge

Dissertation title:  The Phonetics and Phonology of Definite Article Reduction in Northern English Dialects

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Christina Villafaña Dalcher

Dr. Villafaña Dalcher specializes in the study of connected speech processes and their phonetic, phonological, and sociolinguistic aspects, particularly in the Florentine dialect of Italian.  She recently completed her doctoral work and joined the research staff of City University.

BA, Drama
University of Virginia

MA, Linguistics
George Mason University

PhD, Theoretical Linguistics
Georgetown University

Dissertation title:  Consonant Weakening in Florentine Italian:  an acoustic study of gradient and variable sound change

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