Dr. Olga Maxwell is a Senior
Lecturer in ESL and Applied Linguistics at the School of Languages and
Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree
(Honours) from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, and her Master of
Applied Linguistics (TESOL) and Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. Dr.
Maxwell works on bi-/multilingualism, intonation modeling, acoustic phonetics,
English as a second language, language contact and varieties of English in
multilingual societies, prosodic variation, and language attitudes. Her
research projects include the phonology and phonetics of world Englishes (including
diaspora settings), with a particular interest in Indian English, vowel
production and perception, prominence and intonation in L2 English and English
varieties. Her recent research projects include the phonetics and prosody of
Ukrainian and the language and identity of war-displaced Ukrainians in
Australia.
Prof. Elinor Payne is a Professor
of Phonetics and Phonology in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and
Phonetics at the University of Oxford, where she is a member of the Phonetics
Lab. She obtained her MA in Modern and Medieval Languages (Italian and
Spanish), her MPhil in Linguistics, and her PhD in Experimental Phonetics from
the University of Cambridge. Her overarching research interest is cross-linguistic
speech variation—how it arises, what shapes it and how speakers use it—and its
relationship both to phonology and to wider communicative goals. Within this
frame, she has worked on speech timing and other aspects of prosody, including
intonation, for a range of languages, including how infants acquire these. Her
current research investigates prosodic and phonetic variation and convergence
arising from societal multilingualism and languages in contact, and the
interplay of prosody and co-speech gesture in multimodal communication.
