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Kirsty McDougall is an Associate Professor specializing in Phonetics within the Department of Theoretical Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow at Selwyn College and is recognized for her expertise in speaker characteristics and forensic phonetics. Her research highlights the dynamic features of speech, particularly focusing on formant frequencies that characterize the differences among speakers. Dr. McDougall is engaged in sociophonetic variation studies, particularly exploring consonant realization in Australian English. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project IVIP ('Improving Voice Identification Procedures'), an interdisciplinary initiative that combines insights from linguistics, psychology, criminology, and law to enhance the understanding of earwitness behavior and its implications for the criminal justice system. Additionally, she has collaborated with Martin Duckworth to develop the TOFFA methodology for analyzing fluency behavior in forensic contexts.
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