Rein Sikveland, MA Phonetics
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1904 432675
Fax: +44 (0)1904 432673
email : ros500@york.ac.uk
Biography
I did both my BA and MA at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.
My BA consists of courses mainly in Phonetics and Psychology.
I did my MA in Phonetics, including one Erasmus exchange semester at the University of Saarland, Germany.
My MA thesis focussed on (native) speech production in native-native (L1-L1) and native-nonnative (L1-L2) interaction in Norwegian.
After my MA (2005), I did teaching and assistant work on funded projects at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, NTNU, Trondheim. One project I was assisting on was about second language acquisition and language contact, another on phrasal prominence in Norwegian and other languages (paper in progress).
I was teaching BA courses in Phonetics (Introduction to Phonetics, Experimental Phonetics and Transcription).
I also worked 1 year part-time doing student administrative work at the same department.
These have all been a good and challenging experiences for me.
In December 2007, I moved to York to do my PhD in linguistics. This is a joint PhD between the universities of York and Sheffield. My PhD is funded by the Marie Curie Research Training Network (EU), and a part of the project "Sound to Sense" (See Links box on the right).
Current Projects
- The phonetics of interaction: For my PhD I am working on the interactive-phonetic resources in talk, in relation to turn-taking and the upholding and changing of topics.
- Atypical and typical speakers: I am looking at atypical speakers (currently some speakers with Traumatic Brain Injury), and typical speakers.
- Cross-linguistic research: I am looking at talk in English and Norwegian.
Collaborators
Dr. Sara Howard (HCS), Prof. John Local & Dr. Richard Ogden (York)
Presentations
- August 08 Nordic Prosody 2008: Cross-language Differences in the Production of Phrasal Prominence in Norwegian and German – in collaboration with Jacques Koreman, Wim van Dommelen, Bistra Andreeva, William J. Barry.
- June 06 Fonetik 2006 (Nordic Conference in Phonetics): How do we Speak to Foreigners? – Phonetic Analyses of Speech Communication between L1 and L2 Speakers of Norwegian.