Professor Elinor Payne

Professor Elinor Payne is Professor of Phonetics and Phonology, in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, and is a Fellow of St Hilda’s College. Her overarching research interest is speech variation - how it arises, what shapes it and how speakers use it - and in its relationship to phonology. Within this frame, she has worked on aspects of speech timing and prosody for a range of languages, including how infants acquire these. Her current research investigates prosodic and phonetic variation arising from arising from societal multilingualism and languages in contact, in particular: in Indian English (as spoken in India and the diaspora); in Cypriot varieties of Greek, Turkish and Arabic; and in Venetan dialect vs the regional Italian of the Veneto.