Fengting Du
Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Fengting’s thesis is entitled ‘The Perception of and Adaptation to Regional and East Asian English Accents by Native and L2 English Speakers’.
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