Dr Mridhula Murali
Research Associate
Speech and Language Therapy
Personal statement
A research associate on the Variation in Child Speech (VariCS) project with Dr. Anja Kuschmann. After completing a BA honours in Psychology, I developed an interest in linguistics and chose to complete my Masters in Linguistics from Utrecht University, Netherlands. My Masters project focused on investigating speech rhythm in the motor speech disorder, dysarthria. My doctorate with Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, investigated acoustic speech markers to track speech changes in hypokinetic dysarthria associated with Parkinson's disease. I have previously worked as a research assistant on an Innovation Fellowship at Queen Margaret University, focused on the development of ultrasound as a new clinical assessment tool of swallowing function. I have a keen interest in clinical phonetics, particularly speech production in speech and communication disorders, and in speech variability. I also have an interest in engaging in research that combines speech research and speech technology to strengthen diagnosis and intervention of speech and communication disorders.
Publications
- 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)
- A semi-automatic pipeline for transcribing and segmenting child speech
- Christodoulidou Polychronia, Tanner James, Stuart-Smith Jane, McAuliffe Michael, Murali Mridhula, Smith Amy, Taylor Lauren, Cleland Joanne, Kuschmann Anja
- Proceedings of Interspeech 2025 Interspeech Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, pp. 4278-4282 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1030
- Re-examining Accuracy of Diadochokinetic Performance in 5–10-year-old English-speaking Children
- Cleland Joanne, Murali Mridhula, Taylor Lauren, Stuart-Smith Jane, Young David, Kuschmann Anja
- 33rd world congress of the IALP (2025)
- Developmental variability in voice quality : acoustic reference data from 275 children aged 5–12 years
- Murali Mridhula, Cleland Joanne, Taylor Lauren, Young David, Stuart-Smith Jane, Kuschmann Anja
- 2025 International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference (2025)
- A study of voice quality and acoustic variability in sound prolongation performance in a large corpus of 5–12-year-old children
- Murali Mridhula, Cleland Joanne, Taylor Lauren, Young David, Stuart-Smith Jane, Kuschmann Anja
- Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000546421
- Does accent variation affect the identification of Speech Sound Disorders in Scottish-English speaking children?
- Gibson Lucy, Lawson Eleanor, Stuart-Smith Jane, Kuschmann Anja, Smith Amy, Taylor Lauren, Murali Mridhula, Young David, Cleland Joanne
- 2025 International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference (2025)
Professional Activities
- Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Conference 2025
- Speaker
- 26/11/2025
- UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC)
- Participant
- 2/9/2025
- "How we speak" workshops in primary schools in Glasgow and Fife
- Contributor
- 8/2025
- Glasgow Science Festival
- Contributor
- 5/6/2025
- Investigating variability in a large cohort of typically developing children in Scotland – preliminary analysis of non-speech tasks
- Invited speaker
- 22/10/2024
- Glasgow Science Festival
- Contributor
- 6/2024
Projects
- 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
Contact
Dr
Mridhula
Murali
Research Associate
Speech and Language Therapy
Email: mridhula.murali@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted