Research team

Find out about the researchers involved in the SPOT prosody project.

Research Team

Amy Schafer | Shari Speer | Paul Warren | Others

Amy Schafer

Amy Schafer received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst in 1997. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Related links:
Amy Schafer (staff profile)
UHM Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i

Shari Speer

Shari Speer received her PhD in Human Experimental Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at Yale University/Haskins laboratory in 1990, and has held faculty appointments in Psychology and Speech-Language-Hearing at Northeastern University, Boston, and the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She is currently an Associate Professor in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Ohio State University.

Related links:
Ling 825/871 Prosody and Processing is a course on prosody and sentence processing, taught jointly with Mary Beckman at the Ohio State.

Paul Warren

Paul has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and is currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.

Related links:
Paul Warren (staff profile)
New Zealand Spoken English Database

Others

Not quite a cast of thousands, but there have been many students, lab assistants and others who have contributed to this project. They include (with apologies to others we may have forgotten) Amy Austin, Nicola Daly, Jenny Kneale, Frank Wilson