People

Eugenio Martínez Celdrán

Emeritus Director
Emeritus professor
PhD in Philology (1974)

Research interests: prosody, acoustic phonetics (approximants, stops, voicing)

Lourdes Romera Barrios

Director
Tenured lecturer
PhD in Linguistics (1990)

Research interests: phonetics, phonology, intonation, phonological typology, laboratory phonology

Wendy Elvira-García

Tenure-track lecturer
PhD in Cognitive Science and Language (2016)

Research interests: intonation, speech technologies, pronunciation of Spanish as a second language

Joan Borràs Comes

Technical Manager
Senior Technician
PhD in Linguistics (2012)

Laura Hernández Tudela

Administration officer
Building "Josep Carner", office 5.9

Tel. (0034) 933135672

Josefina Carrera-Sabaté

Tenured lecturer
PhD in Catalan Linguistics (1999)

Research interests: sociophonetics, L2 sounds learning, teaching phonetics, dialectology, oral communication

Dan Dediu

ICREA Research Professor
PhD in Linguistics (2007)

Research interests: linguistic diversity, language origins and evolution, quantitative and computational methods in linguistics

Mireia Farrús Cabeceran

Associate professor
PhD in Speech Engineering (2008)

Research interests: speech processing, prosody, ethics and engineering

Núria Gavaldà

Assistant professor
PhD in English Applied Linguistics (2013)

Research interests: L2 sounds learning, teaching phonetics, oral communication

Joan Carles Mora

Associate professor
PhD in English Applied Linguistics (2001)

Research interests: L2 sounds learning, teaching phonetics, oral communication

Simone Balocco

Tenured lecturer
PhD in Acoustics (2013), PhD in Electronic Systems Design (2013)

Research interests: deep learning, pattern recognition, signal processing

Víctor Bargiela Zotes

Predoctoral researcher - Fundació "La Caixa" (UNED)
Màster Oficial Estudis Avançats de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes (UAB-UB)

Research interests: sociophonetics, sociolinguistics, language variation

Juan María Garrido Almiñana

Tenured lecturer (UNED)
PhD in Spanish Philology (1996)

Research interests: theoretical and applied phonetics, prosody, speech technologies

Paolo Roseano

Tenured lecturer (UNED)
PhD in Linguistics (2012), PhD in Sociology (2004)

Research interests: prosody, intonation, sound change, dialectology, morphology

Assumpció Rost Bagudanch

Tenured lecturer (UAB)
PhD in Human and Cultural Sciences (2011)

Research interests: phonetic variation and change, sociophonetics, diachrnoic phonology

Péizhū Shàng (尚培珠)

Tenure-track Assistant Professor (Beijing Institute of Technology)
PhD in Cognitive Science and Language (2022)

Research interests: prosody, acquisition of the intonation, teaching Spanish as a foreign language

Jesús Bach-Marquès

PhD student (FI grant) in Catalan Linguistics
Advisor: Dr. Josefina Carrera

Research interests: phonetics, intonation, L2 learning, embodiment, prosody

Giovanna Di Paola

Universidad de Sevilla
Advisors: Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Wendy Elvira-García

Research interests: language evolution, phonosimbolism

Dīngníng [Joey] Zhāng (张丁宁)

Cognitive Science and Language
Advisors: Wendy Elvira-García, Dan Dediu

Research interests: Spanish and Chinese phonology, sociophonetics, L2 acquisition

Qiànwén [Abril] Zhāng (张倩文)

Cognitive Science and Language
Advisors: Wendy Elvira-García

Research interests: pronunciation Spanish as a foreign language, Chinese as a heritag language

Joan Olives Bosch

Degree in Lingüística

Estudiant de pràctiques, curs 2023-24 (Q2)

Ainoa Muñoz Pérez

Degree in Filologia Hispànica

Internship student, year 2023-24 (Q1)

Júlia Saludes Santamaría

Degree in Llengües i Literatures Modernes

Estudiant de pràctiques, curs 2023-24 (Q2)

Emma Vargas García

Degree in Llengües i Literatures Modernes

Internship student, year 2023-24 (Q1)