AcousA
Acoustic assessment of speech in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration: Robust phonetic measures and tasks for its automatization (AcousA-FTLD) (PID2022-139004OA-I00)
Wendy
Elvira-García
Assistant Professor | Serra Húnter Fellow
Wendy Elvira-García is a phonetician and assistant professor (Serra Húnter tenure-track program) at the University of Barcelona (Spain), member of the Phonetics Laboratory and editor-in-chief of Estudios de Fonética Experimental. She currently is the coordinator of the Linguistics and Catalan Philology degrees and she was the academic coordinator of the interuniversity Cognitive Science and Language master program from 2021 to 2024.
She is PI for a project that aims to characterize motor speech in fronto-temporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) using phonetic variables and automatise its analysis (PID2022-139004OA-I00).
She is author and coauthor of 30 research papers published in peer-reviewed journals (24 JCR), a book review and more than 60 congress presentations. In addition to this, she has published 2 books (1 as sole author, 1 coauthored), coauthored 16 book chapters, and edited two books. She has been keynote speaker in congresses 5 times and been invited to give conferences in universities from 5 countries.
Her research interests are both theoretical and applied phonetics.
Her theoretical research deals with the syntax/pragmatics-prosody interface from the perspective of construction grammar and particularly the prosody of insubordination. In applied phonetics, she works mainly programming tools that can be used in clinical and forensic acoustic analysis. She is particularly proud of an automatic transcriber of Spanish and Catalan intonation and a software for calculating prosodic distances among different linguistic varieties (dialectometry).
She has previously worked as postdoc researcher "Juan de la Cierva" in the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, as Phonetics lecturer (adjunct) in the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and Universität Onsnabrück (Germany) and as invited professor in he Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile).
She has taught multiple subjects dealing with Phonetics and Corpus Linguistics. She has been the PI of a teaching innovation project for improving the Spanish Phonetics course in the UNED and currently is part of a project to improve the teaching of Phonetics and the Linguistics and Catalan Philology degrees.
