I am a phonetician with a
particular interest in the production and perception of both intonation and rhotics. I am a Senior Lecturer in Phonetics, and Programme
Director for the PGDip / MSc in Speech and Language Therapy,
at City University London.
Small grant award, Nuffield Foundation , Co-investigator with Dr. Rachel Smith
(PI), £7,500, 'Perceptual learning about word boundaries in familiar and
unfamiliar accents', (2008)
Pump Priming Fund, City
University , £4,900, The effect of ultrasound
scanning on speech (2008)
CeTL funding for phonetics teaching equipment
(phonetics team application), £54,000, (2007)
Jones, M. and Knight, R-A. (eds.) (in prep) Continuum Companion to Phonetics, Contimuum.
Knight, R-A. (in prep) Phonetics a Coursebook, CUP.
Knight, R-A. (submitted) Sounds for study: Speech and
language therapy students’ use and perception of exercise podcasts for
phonetics. Submitted to International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Knight, R-A. (accepted) Transcribing nonsense
words: The effect of numbers of
repetitions and voices. Submitted to Clinical
Linguistics and Phonetics
Knight, R-A. (resubmitted). Rhythmic
stability in a single speaker across time: Testing an underlying assumption of rhythm metrics. Journal of the International Phonetics Association.
Knight, R-A. (2009) Feeling confident about
transcription (?): A student survey concerning numbers of repetitions and
new voices. Proceedings of the
Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, 2009, University College
London.
Knight, R-A. (2008). The
shape of nuclear falls and their effect on the perception of pitch
andprominence: peaks vs.
plateaux. Language and Speech, 51(3),
223-244.
Villafaña Dalcher, C.,Knight, R-.A. and Jones, M.J (2008).Cue switching in the perception of approximants:evidence from two English
dialects. U. Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics 14.2: Papers from NWAV 36, ed. K. Gorman.
Knight, R-A.; VillafanaDalcher, C.; Jones, M. J.(2007). A real-time case study of rhotic acquisition in Southern British English. In Proceedings of the 16 th International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences XVI ; pp. 1581-1584; Universitat des Saarlandes; Saarbrucken, Germany, August 2007.
Knight, R-A. and Cocks, N. (2007). The
rhythm of a person with right hemisphere damage:
Applying the pairwise variability index, Advances in Speech and Language Pathology, 9
(3) 256-264.
Knight, R.A.and Nolan. F. (2006). The effect of pitch span on intonational plateaux. Journal of the International Phonetics Association, 36 , 21-38.
Knight, R-A. (2004) The realisation of
intonational plateaux: Effects of foot structure. in L. Astruc and M. Richards (eds.) Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 1,
157-164.
Knight, R-A. (2002)The influence of pitch
span on intonational plateaux in B. Bel and I.Marlien (eds.) Proceedings of the Speech Prosody conference, Aix-en-Provence
, 439-442
TEACHING
Senior Lecturer in Phonetics,
(2007-Present), City University, London
I teach phonetics and phonology to students
undertaking Speech and Language Therapy degrees, for which I have won an award.
I also act as module leader and am a personal tutor. I am involved with outreach
events such as open days and workshops, and am partly responsible for the
departmental website. I was Programmer Director for the PGDip/ MSc from 2006-2009,
and supervise research dissertations at all levels. In 2009/10 I am concentrating on revising the research dissertation module for our BSc4 students.
Reviewer for Journal of Phonetics (2004), Clinical Linguistics and
Phonetics (2005-), Journal of the International
Phonetics Association (2006-), International Journal of Language
and Communication Disorders (2007-), Journal of Pragmatics (2009), Slovo a slovesnost (2009).
