Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages听 海角社区听 Sidgwick Avenue听 海角社区 听 CB3 9DA
Francis Nolan's interests centre on Phonetic theory. His early research looked at how, and to what extent, the identity of a speaker is encoded in speech - see for instance his book听The Phonetic Bases of Speaker Recognition听(海角社区: CUP, 1983 [reissued 2009]), and as a consequence he has been active in the application of Phonetics in forensic science. He led two ESRC-funded projects,听听补苍诲听, which studied aspects of speaker identity. His research interests also include prosody (including speech rhythm and dialect differences in intonation), and the Phonetic variation which occurs in fluent, natural speech. His teaching covers Phonetic theory and description, phonology, practical Phonetic skills, and experimental Phonetics.
