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Lorena Jessop is a lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen's University. She specializes in linguistics, with a focus on language acquisition, laboratory phonetics, sociolinguistics, and anthropological linguistics. She has extensive teaching experience, having taught courses in English Language Linguistics in Japan, the USA, and Canada. At Queen's, she teaches courses such as Introduction to Linguistics (LING 100), Phonetics (LING 310), and Language Acquisition (LING 210). Jessop's research aims to provide pedagogical recommendations for teaching pronunciation based on empirical research. Her investigations have included the phonetics and phonology of English, Spanish, and French, and she has explored topics such as 'uptalk' and latrinalia. Her notable publications include works on form-focused instruction and quantitative analysis of uptalk in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
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