Mark J. Jones

Lecturer in phonetics

Qualifications

Mark holds a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (German, Linguistics, & Russian), an MPhil. in Linguistics, and a PhD in phonetics from the University of Cambridge.

Research interests

Mark's major research interest is the phonetics-phonology interface; essentially the way that an abstract system of sound contrasts maps to and constrains surface phonetic variation. He is also interested in speech aerodynamics, acquisition, and sound change and typology.

Research

From 2005-2008 Mark was a British Academy post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge. During that time he was co-investigator with Dr Rachael-Anne Knight on an ESRC funded project into the acquisition of /r/ by Britsih English speaking children. Before that he worked as a research assistant for Professor Francis Nolan at the University of Cambridge on a British Academy funded project analysing the fricatives of North Welsh. Mark's PhD was on the phonetics and phonology of the glottal definite article in northern English dialects (see Jones 2007 below).

Teaching

Mark lectures on phonetics and phonology for the SL1001 and SL1005 courses.

Recent and forthcoming publications

• Mark J. Jones and Kirsty McDougall (2009). The acoustic character of fricated /t/ in Australian English: a comparison with /s/ and /S/. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 39, 265-289.
• Knight, Rachael-Anne, Christina Villafana Dalcher, and Mark J. Jones. (2008). Cue switching in the perception of approximants: evidence from two English dialects. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 14, 60-71.
• Mark J. Jones and Carmen Llamas (2008). Fricated realisations of /t/ in Dublin and Middlesbrough English. English Language and Linguistics, 12, 419-443.
• Mark J. Jones (2007). Glottals and grammar: definite article reduction and morpheme boundaries. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics 12.
• Mark J. Jones and Francis Nolan (2007). "An acoustic study of North Welsh voiceless fricatives." In Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
• Knight, Rachael-Anne, Christina Villafana Dalcher, and Mark J. Jones. (2007). A real-time study of rhotic acquisition in British English. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
• Mark J. Jones and Kirsty McDougall (2006). A comparative acoustic study of Australian English fricated /t/: assessing the Irish (English) link. Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, December 6 - 8 2006.