Dr Elinor Payne

College Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology

Dr Elinor Payne, University Lecturer and Fellow of St Hilda's College

I was appointed in 2007, following a British Academy Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, and a temporary lectureship at UCL. I
have also had a career in Government, during which I worked on international
trade policy and 'international futures' and had a short spell working at the
European Commission.

My main research interests lie, on the empirical side, in speech production and
prosody and, on the theoretical side, in the evolution of phonological systems
(and in particular the role played by speech patterns, or 'motifs'). More
recently, I have also become interested in aspects of speech acquisition and
disorder. Languages I have worked on include Italian, Italo-Romance dialects,
Spanish, Catalan, English, Arabic and Cypriot Greek.