Staff Profile of Dr Paul Carter

Name:

Dr Paul Carter

Position:

Lecturer in Linguistics

Email:

p.carter@bangor.ac.uk

Location:

M7d

Phone:

2078

Research Interests

I am a phonetician and phonologist. Most of my work has been in experimental phonetics, with a recent focus on how the phonetics and phonology of liquid consonants varies in dialects of English. I am interested in the non-segmental aspects of speech: in phonetics this includes such long-extent effects as are found associated with English liquids (a sort of supra-segmental secondary articulation or temporary articulatory setting); in phonology this involves what could be called a "prosodo-melodic phonology" - the attenuation of the segmental tier and the distribution of features across a unified prosodic/melodic hierarchy. I am interested in both individual and group variation and so I see phonetics and phonology as complete only when they take each other - and sociolinguistics - into account. Moreover, I am increasingly aware of the value of conversational data since measurement in laboratories does not adequately tackle speech in its natural habitat.

Publications

(as single author)

Carter, Paul (2003) "Extrinsic phonetic interpretation: spectral variation in English liquids." In John Local, Richard Ogden & Rosalind Temple (eds.) Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI. Cambridge: CUP, 237–252.

(as joint author)

Carter, Paul and John Local (2007) "F2 variation in Newcastle and Leeds English liquid systems" Journal of the International Phonetic Association 37(2): 183-199.
Ogden, Richard, Sarah Hawkins, Jill House, Mark Huckvale, John Local, Paul Carter, Jana Dankovicová and Sebastian Heid (2000) "ProSynth: an integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis." Computer Speech and Language 14: 177–210.

Conference papers

2004 "Rhythm and resonance: metrical structure and the sub-F3 spectrum in liquids" (with John Local). British Association of Academic Phoneticians colloquium.
2003 "Modelling change in the liquid system in Tyneside English" (with John Local). International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
2002 "Resonance characteristics as non-segmental phonological abstractions: some consequences for speech perception". International Speech Communication Association workshop on temporal integration in the perception of speech.
2002 "Tracking resonance differences in English liquids" (with John Local). British Association of Academic Phoneticians colloquium.1999 "Abstractness in phonology and extrinsic phonetic interpretation: the case of liquids in English". International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
1999 "Temporal Interpretation in ProSynth, a prosodic speech synthesis system" (with Richard Ogden and John Local). International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.