Professor Bert Vaux![]() University positionProfessor Professor Bert Vaux is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students. DepartmentsDepartment of Linguistics and Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages Home pagehttps://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/bv230 (personal home page) Research ThemeInterests--grounding of phonological learning in a mathematical implementation of evolutionary information theory. --phonological cognition. --implications of selective aphasias, first and second language acquisition phenomena, processing and production effects, and language games for theories of phonological and morphological architecture. --interactions between synesthesia and phonetics/phonology. --cleft palate speech in late bilinguals --bilingual acquisition --extraction of predictive group characteristics from large linguistic corpora using statistical techniques developed in chemometrics to identify gender and other biological characteristics from large databases of sweat samples. ![]() Regional terms for drinking fountain in the US View image full-size (3270x2052 pixels) Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Computational modelling Cross-sectional and cohort studies Randomised control trials Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsJohannessen, J, Vaux B (2013), “Retroflex Variation and Methodological Issues: A Reply to Simonsen, Moen and Cowen (2008)” Journal of Phonetics Vaux B (2011), “Language games and speech disguises” The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition Vaux B, Myler N (2011), “Meter is music” Language and Music as Cognitive Systems Vaux B (2009), “The role of features in a symbolic theory of phonology” Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonological Theory Vaux B, Nevins A (2008), “Rules, Constraints, and Phonological Phenomena” Oxford University Press Vaux B (2007), “The role of features in a symbolic theory of phonology. In Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations, Eric Raimy and Charles Cairns, eds” Cambridge: MIT Press. Vaux B, Nevins A (2007), “Underlying representations that do not minimize grammatical violations. In "Freedom of Analysis", Sylvia Blaho, Patrik Bye, and Martin Krämer” eds. Vaux B, Cooper J, Tucker E (2006), “Linguistic Field Methods” book Vaux B, Nevins A (2006), “The Role of Contrast in Locality: Transparent Palatal Glides in Kyrghyz” MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 52:275-287 |