Angela Burgess
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Language and Linguistics Babylab
- Module LG115 - Child Language Development
- Child language acquisition
- Phonological development
- Infant Speech perception
- Word Segmentation
- Infant-directed speech
- Other research interests: Child language disorders such as Specific language impairment, Autism, Cochlear implant users)
Biography
I am currently a second year PhD student. I am a GTA for LG115. I am a member of the LangUE conference committee. I am a member of the ICIS (International Congress of Infant Studies).
Qualifications
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BA English Language, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders University of Essex (2017)
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MSc Language and the Brain University of Essex (2018)
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CADENZA Associate Fellow (AFHEA) of the Higher Education Academy University of Essex (2019)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Which exaggerated Infant-directed speech (IDS) cues do British-English learning infants attend to more, to segment fluent speech?
A word learning study to investigate how typical developing children segment words from a speech stream. The focus is on a particular speech register used to address babies known as infant-directed speech (IDS) and is known to have different acoustic properties from adult-directed speech (ADS). Thus, the aim of this study is to investigate which exaggerated IDS cues do 8 to 10.5-month-old British infants use to boost word segmentation using eye tracking technology.
Supervisor: Dr Claire Delle Luche , Dr Laurel Lawyer