Publications

Analyzing liquids

Lawson Eleanor, Stuart-Smith Jane

Sociophonetics A Student's Guide (2026) (2026)

English (Scottish) speech development

Scobbie James M, Cleland Joanne, Lawson Eleanor, Schaeffler Sonja

The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World (2026) (2026)

Articulatory aspects of approximants

Lawson Eleanor, Scobbie James M

The Phonetics and Phonology of Approximants (2026) (2026)

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487528867

Instrumental articulatory techniques investigating lingual variability in typically developing children : a scoping review

Smith Amy, Kuschmann Anja, Lawson Eleanor, Cairney Maria, Cleland Joanne

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol 40, pp. 78-100 (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2486626

Auditory variation in Scottish coda /r/ in child speech

Lawson Eleanor, Stuart-Smith Jane, Cleland Joanne, Murali Mridhula, Taylor Lauren, Smith Amy, Kuschmann Anja

2026 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (2026)

How does accent affect the identification of Speech Sound Disorders in Scottish-English speaking children?

Cleland Joanne, Gibson Lucy, Lawson Eleanor, Stuart-Smith Jane, Kuschmann Anja, Smith Amy, Taylor Lauren, Murali Mridhula, Young David

33rd world congress of the IALP (2025)

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Professional Activities

Auditory variation in Scottish coda /r/ in child speech

Speaker

20/3/2026

Mother Tongues Workshop

Participant

11/9/2025

An Ultrasound Study of Tongue Shape Variability in English-Speaking Typically Developing Children

Contributor

24/6/2025

Glasgow Science Festival: The sound of Science

Contributor

10/6/2025

I got hate comments because of my Indian Accent

Recipient

12/11/2024

A Speech Therapy Animation and imaging Resource (STAR).

Speaker

17/4/2024

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Projects

APP81531: Child Lingual Evolution Apparent-time Research (CLEAR)

Lawson, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2026 - 30-Jan-2028

Does lexical feedback improve the understanding of the speech of children with speech sound disorders?

Cairney, Maria (Principal Investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator) Lawson, Eleanor (Co-investigator) Ratanakul, Ketnipa (Researcher)

01-Jan-2025 - 02-Jan-2026

STAR-Gate: a user evaluation and co-production project for the Speech Therapy Animation and Imaging (STAR) web resource

Timmins, Claire (Principal Investigator) Lawson, Eleanor (Co-investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2025

STAR-gate: a user evaluation and co-production project for the Speech Therapy Animation and imaging Resource (STAR) web resource.

Lawson, Eleanor (Co-investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator) Timmins, Claire (Principal Investigator)

STAR-gate: a user evaluation and co-production project for the STAR web resources.

For over a decade, the project team have led several clinical studies using ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI), to evidence the effectiveness of this technique for improving speech errors in children with speech sound disorder (SSD). Papers published in both the previous and current REF period by our group have shown that this approach can be game changing, especially for SSDs which are difficult to treat through conventional therapy. However, ultrasound technology is not widely available to speech and language therapists (SLTs) and educators. To democratise access to visual representations speech production, we created two ESRC-funded Web-based resources:

Seeing Speech: STAR www.seeingspeech.ac.uk/speechstar/ for Speech Therapy training.

SpeechSTAR www.speechstar.ac.uk for use in clinic with children who have SSDs.

These sites contain video databases of (non)disordered child speech, imaged using UTI; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) speech samples, and MRI-based vocal-tract animations.

Initial feedback gathered through site surveys has been excellent; however, many respondents are encountering the site for the first time and are not sure how to navigate the resources. Our proposed project (STAR-gate) will maximise the accessibility of STAR and SpeechSTAR by engaging key user groups (i) SLTs; (ii) clients/carers (iii) SLT students; (iv) Clinical-Phonetics lecturers. We will work with HEIs and SLTs across the British Isles, to evaluate STAR/SpeechSTAR, and co-create video-based content for these Web sites.

Objectives:

Before the next REF exercise, to gather evidence of how STAR has changed the practice of the user groups.

To develop written materials facilitating use of STAR for Clinical Phonetics teaching (publications/ working papers, co-created with Clinical Phonetics lecturers).

To gather evidence to support grant applications to further develop the STAR and SpeechSTAR websites, according to user needs.

To co-create video-based user guides, sharing how STAR and SpeechSTAR can be used in SLT teaching, training, CPD and in clinic.

01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2026

Introduction to Articulate Instruments Advanced for recording and analysis

Lawson, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Dokovova, Marie (Principal Investigator)

Hands on activities and demonstrations of the AAA software facilitated in Cardiff Metropolitan University.

25-Jan-2023 - 26-Jan-2023

BletherNet: Neural Networks for Understanding Tongue Shapes in Disordered

Lawson, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Murali, Mridhula (Researcher) Kirkland, Paul (Academic) Cleland, Joanne (Academic)

A project investigating the use of neural networks in the automatic classification of /r/ tongue shapes, imaged with Ultrasound Tongue Imaging

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024

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