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Elinor Payne is a Professor in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, where she is a member of the Phonetics Lab. Her overarching research interest is in cross-linguistic speech variation and its relationship with speakers' communicative goals. She has worked on aspects of speech timing, prosody, and intonation across a range of languages and is particularly focused on how infants acquire language. Her current research investigates prosodic and phonetic variation in the context of societal multilingualism, particularly in languages in contact, such as Indian English, varieties of Cypriot Greek and Turkish, Arabic, and the Venetan dialect versus regional Italian in Veneto. Professor Payne also explores the interplay between prosody and co-speech gestures in multimodal communication.
University of Oxford • Oxford
Teaching phonetics and phonology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including courses in Modern Languages and Linguistics.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.