Department of Linguistics
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Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre: Research
SHLRC Research
Members of the Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre (SHLRC) are concerned with investigating the perceptual, acoustic, articulatory, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic processes involved in producing and understanding speech and language. Our focus is on examining speech, hearing and language processes in people with ‘typical’ speech and language abilities as well as people with impairments in speech, hearing or language. Our aim is to understand better the processes underlying speech, hearing and language use as well as the ways in which those processes can be affected by various forms of disorder including acquired brain damage, hearing impairment, and developmental disability.
The Centre includes speech, hearing and language specialists with diverse backgrounds in areas such as audiology, corpus linguistics, experimental phonetics and phonology, psychology, speech and language pathology, and sociolinguistics. Members of the Centre bring to bear a range of theoretical perspectives from a number of scientific disciplines including cognitive neuropsychology, clinical linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, speech science and technology, and physiology. Many different methodological approaches are employed in the implementation of our research such as experimental design and quantitative methods, case studies, discourse analysis, qualitative methods, epidemiology, longitudinal research and intervention studies. Use of these different methodologies enables members to address interrelated issues of theoretical and practical importance in a complementary and often integrated way, thus enhancing the Centre’s overall research strength.