Fengting Du
Research project title
The Perception of and Adaptation to Regional and East Asian English Accents by Native and L2 English Speakers
Supervisors
Prof Martha Young-Scholten and Dr Rory Turnbull
Contact Details
Email: f.du4@newcastle.ac.uk
Research interests
- phonetics
- phonology
- sound change
- second language acquisition
- speech perception and processing
A brief outline of the research project
My research focuses on the perception and adaptation of English accents from Eastern Asian L2 English speakers. I intend to find the relationship between L1 language backgrounds and accentual traces. In other words, I am looking at whether there is an intelligibility benefit from L1s in perceiving L2-accented speech. I am currently contacting Burmese, Mandarin, Thai and Vietnamese L2 English speakers.
Research activities
Group membership
- NCL Phonetics and Phonology Research Group
Teaching
- SEL1027 - Introduction to the Structure of Language 1: Syntax and Phonology: Seminar Leader of the phonology session, 2021-22
- SEL1028 - Introduction to the Structure of Language 2: Morphology and Meaning: Seminar Leader of the meaning session, 2022-22
Conferences
- HaSS PG First-Year Research Conference: Hey, watch out! Accents are on fire, 2021
- Speaker Presenting in 2019 Linguistics PG Summer Conference, 2019