Research staff

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri

María Luisa García Lecumberri is Full Professor of Phonetics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). She obtained an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Phonetics at University College London.

Her work  is carried out within funded research projects such as Sound to Sense (http://www.sound2sense.eu), LISTA  (http://listening-talker.org/),  INSPIRE  (Investigating Speech Processing in Realistic Environments http://www.ru.nl/clst/projects/speech/inspire/), DIACEX (Dissecting Foreign Accent) and ENRICH (Enriched communication across the lifespan http://www.enrich-etn.eu/).

Research Interests

Acquisition of L2 speech. Speech perception. Speech in adverse conditions. Foreign accents. L2 speech training. Cross-language influences on speech.

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Books

María del Pilar García Mayo, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. (2003) Age and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language. Pub.:Multilingual Matters. ISBN: 1-85359-639-6.  Abstract || PDF
Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, John A. Maidment. (2000) English Transcription Course. Pub.:Edward Arnold. ISBN: 0 340 75978 X.  Abstract

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