CENTRE FOR HUMAN COMMUNICATION Home Staff Academic Staff Research Staff & Students Technical/Admin Staff Research Research Areas Publications Departments & Courses Departments Postgraduate Programmes MRes in Speech, Language & Cognition Events/News Events CHC in the Media Past Events Competitions Membership Application form Existing members Editing pages Forms Grants & Funding Workshops Event forms Places Maps Vacancies Current Positions Studentships Search CHC Members: Look for in the field [any] Name Interests Email List: Academic staff Research students Visiting scholars Admin/tech staff All current members   Name Contact details Interests   Mr Robert ADAM Email: rejadambtinternet.com MPhil student based at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre.   Ms Kate Baker Email: k.bakerich.ucl.ac.uk Phone: 020 7905 2165 Development of neural circuits involved in language function, using event-related potentials and cognitive psychology. Genetic regulation of developmental processes, and implications for developmental disorders and adult-onset psychiatric disorders.   Mr. TC Chiang Email: t.chiangucl.ac.uk Phone: 02076791160 Internal phone: 21160   Tanya Denmark Email: tanyadenmarkhotmail.com Phone: 07740194310 I am currently working on Developmental abilities of deaf children and will be doing some research on the deaf brain, as well as visual impairments.   Brother William Dmello Raymond Email: w.dmelloich.ucl.ac.uk I am a student at ICH in the MSC, CDS (community disability studies) department and a native of India. I'm working for the welfare of deaf children. I plan to return to India after my studies.   Katharina Dworzynski Email: k.dworzynskiucl.ac.uk Phone: 02076795365 Internal phone: 25365 Dr Bronwen Evans [Website] Email: bronphon.ucl.ac.uk Phone: 020 7679 5104 Internal phone: (3)5104 Fax: 020 7383 0752 Ingrid Lossius Falkum Email: i.falkumucl.ac.uk Phone: 07794358333 Lexical semantics and pragmatics and the semantics/pragmatics interface   Mr Jordan Fenlon Email: j.fenlonucl.ac.uk sign language linguistics and the deaf brain   Mr. Gordon Hunter Email: gordon.hunterucl.ac.uk Phone: 02076797431 Internal phone: 27431 Automatic speech recognition and statistical language modelling, particularly of dialogue. Computer models of cognitve processes, machine learning. Signal processing. Dr Jeong Sug Kyong Email: j.kyongucl.ac.uk Phone: 020 7679 5104 Internal phone: 25104 speech and hearing with psychophysics and functional neuroimaging   Miss Maria Belen Lopez Email: m.lopezucl.ac.uk Phone: 02076795302 Internal phone: 25302 Interactions between speech and gesture: when does gesture and speech come together during production? does gesture help us to speak? Interested also in the speech production system, and origins of language.   Miss Gloria Malambe Email: g.malambeucl.ac.uk Palatalisation in the morphology of Southern Bantu languages, OT analysis Ms Carolyn McGettigan Email: sslycamucl.ac.uk Phone: 07870637653 Internal phone: 76791129 I am currently in the first year of a PhD under the supervision of Dr Sophie Scott and funded by the ESRC. I am interested in perceptual adaptation to distorted speech and am currently using behavioural paradigms to investigate the importance of phonological factors in adaptation to noise-vocoded speech.   Miss Odette Megnin Email: o.megninich.ucl.ac.uk Phone: 07977431012 Internal phone: 0207 905 2661 I have just started a PhD with Tony Charman, Torsten Baldeweg and Michelle De Haan. We will be examining language impairment in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), specific language impairment (SLI), and typically developing children Mr Piers Messum Email: p.messumucl.ac.uk Phone: 020 7274 6306 How children learn to speak, without doing so by imitation. Two alternative mechanisms replace imitation: a physiological/aerodynamic one for supposedly temporal phenomena, and a sound-gesture equivalence mapping for the development of the qualities of speech sounds. Simone Mätzig Email: simone.maetzigweb.de Phone: 020 7679 4198 Internal phone: 24198 My interest lies in syntactic and morphological deficits in aphasic patients, and noun/verb differences in normal language users and aphasic patients.   Ms Rosemary O'Halpin Email: r.o'halpinucl.ac.uk experimental phonetics, cochlear implants, perception and production of stress and intonation   Ms Maria O'Neill Email: m.l.oneillrdg.ac.uk Phone: 0118 387 6989 I am primarily intersted in the developmental links between speech and gesture. i am particularly interested the relationship between maternal speech and gesture and language development, and the developmental benefit of maternal speech and gesture modification.   Susanna Padrosa Trias Email: susannaptmixmail.com, uclyspa Syntax: acquisition Miss Mary Pearce [Website] Email: m.pearceucl.ac.uk Phone: 07986 456 852 The phonology of Kera (Chadic language), vowel harmony, tone, Optimality Theory and African languages. Member of SIL, Chad. Mr Matthew Reeve Email: m.reeveucl.ac.uk Phone: 07866 944583 I am in my first year of a PhD in Linguistics. My interests are in the representation of information structure, particularly focus, in generative syntactic theory.   Mr Hitoshi Shiraki Email: h.shirakiucl.ac.uk syntax of anaphoric relations and syntax-pragmatics interface   Mr. Matthew Smith Email: matthew.smithucl.ac.uk Phone: 020 7679 5104 Internal phone: 25104 Psychoacoustics. Factors determining the optimal frequency-to-place mapping in cochlear implants.   Ms Jenny Thomson Email: j.thomsonich.ucl.ac.uk Phone: 02079052166 Internal phone: 2166 Phonology and developmental language difficulties/dyslexia   Mr Michael Tjalve Email: m.tjalveucl.ac.uk Pronunciation variation Automatic speech recognition Nina Topintzi Email: i.topintziucl.ac.uk Phonology (stress, weight); Optimality Theory; Phonology of Greek; Prosodic morphology Robert Truswell [Website] Email: r.truswellucl.ac.uk Syntax and semantics, particularly relating to adjunction, locality, aspect and argument structure   Ms. Rosa Vega Moreno [Website] Email: r.vega-morenoucl.ac.uk Phone: 0207 740 2514 Internal phone: 0207 679 3160 I am interested in pragmatics., figurative language and concepts.   Mr Nikolaos Velegrakis Email: n.velegrakisucl.ac.uk Phone: 07785794597 Syntax, Computational Linguistics and especially natural language processing, Morphology. 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