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Dr. Rachael-Anne Knight
Senior Lecturer in Phonetics
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University London
Tel: 020 7040 8081

PAPERS   |   BOOKS   |   PRESENTATIONS

See my prosody research page to download chapters from my PhD thesis


PAPERS
 
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. (accepted) 'Transcribing nonsense words:  The effect of numbers of repetitions and voices'. Submitted to Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

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. (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 and prominence: 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' invited for publication in Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 14.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 36.
 
Knight, R-A., C. Villafana Dalcher, and M.J.Jones, (2007); 'A real-time case study of rhotic acquisition in Southern British English' . In Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences XVI
 
Knight, R-A. and N. Cocks (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 F. Nolan (2006) 'The effect of pitch span on intonational plateaux' . Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 36, 1, 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 (2004) 

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 (2002)
 
BOOKS
 

Jones, M. and Knight, R-A. (eds.) (in prep) Continuum Companion to Phonetics, Contimuum.

Knight, R-A. (in prep) Phonetics a Coursebook, CUP. 



SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
 
 
A real-time case study of rhotic acquisition in Southern British English. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences with Christina Villafana Dalcher and Mark J. Jones (2007)
 
The role of contour shape in the perception of pitch height: new data Poster presented at British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Edinburgh (2006)
 
Plasticity, exemplars, and the perceptual equivalence of 'defective' and non-defective /r/ realisations, Conference talk with Mark J. Jones, Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Cambridge (2005)

Nuclear accent shape and the perception of prominence Conference talk, British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Cambridge (2004)

Nuclear accent shape and the perception of syllable prominence Conference talk, Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Oxford (2004) Beware, this file is 1.2M!

Accent shape and perceived pitch Conference talk, Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Sheffield (2003)

The effect of pitch span on intonational plateaux Conference talk, International Conference on Speech Prosody, Aix-en-provence( 2002)

The effect of pitch span on the alignment of intonational peaks and plateaux Conference talk, British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Newcastle (2002)
 
Investigating Intonational Plateaux Poster presented at North West Centre for Linguistics (2001)


 

 
Last Updated 15.07.09