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Holly Kennard is a Departmental Lecturer specializing in Phonetics and Phonology at the University of Oxford. She completed a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, focusing on Breton morphophonology and secured a grant from the John Fell Fund for a project on intonation in Breton. Her research interests center on French words assigned grammatical gender, metrical stress in loanwords, and the effects of language revival on native morphophonology. Kennard employs psycholinguistic experimental methods to explore stress perception among bilingual speakers. Currently, she is investigating Breton intonation by analyzing connected speech recordings to examine intonational contours across various speakers. Kennard teaches undergraduate courses in phonetics and phonology, as well as graduate phonology, and supervises theses on a diverse range of topics in phonology connected to her research. Further details regarding her research interests can be found on her personal webpage.
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