Dr Leendert Plug
- Position: Associate Professor in Linguistics and Phonetics
- Areas of expertise: phonetics; speech perception; laboratory phonology; interactional linguistics
- Email: L.Plug@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: B21 Michael Sadler Building
- Website: Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
I came to Leeds in 2007, after a year of working as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield. Prior to that I completed, in chronological order, an MA in English Literature and Linguistics at the University of Leiden and an MA Res and PhD in Phonetics at the University of York. At Leeds I was Director of Linguistics and Phonetics between 2015 and 2022.
Research interests
My research interests are in phonetics and laboratory phonology, broadly defined. Topics I have worked on include phonetic reduction and disfluency in connected speech, the perception of speech tempo, and the temporal organisation of consonant sequences. Most of my work has been on Dutch and English; some has been on Arabic.
My current research focuses on within-speaker variation in speech production. It has been supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Grant (How variable is speech, how reliable are single recordings?, 2022-2024) which has allowed me to record the Leeds Multi-Session Corpus of Standard Southern British English (https://doi.org/10.5518/1547).
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>- How variable is speech, how reliable are single recordings? Assessing the medium-term dynamics of speech through iterative data collection
- Speech tempo perception and missing sounds
- Syllables, segments and how to measure speech tempo: Evidence from listening experiments
Professional memberships
- British Association of Academic Phoneticians
- International Phonetic Association
- Journal of Phonetics (editorial board)
- Studies in Phonetics and Phonology (editorial board)
Student education
Most of my teaching is in the areas of phonetics and phonology and interactional linguistics. I also do my share of convening team-taught modules and teaching academic skills and research methods. I am currently writing a textbook in phonetics and phonology for Cambridge University Press. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research groups and institutes
- Language variation
- Speech production and perception
- Linguistics and Phonetics
- Linguistics and Phonetics
- Linguistics and Translation