Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Nicole Whitworth
Head of Subject
Dr Nicole Whitworth is the Head of International & Global Studies in the Carnegie School of Education. Her academic background is Linguistics and Phonetics. She specialises in language acquisition of speech and the teaching of phonetics and pronunciation.
Nicole has taught Linguistics and Phonetics at several local universities, including York, Sheffield, and Leeds University. Since joining Leeds Beckett, she has worked in various areas across the university. She has published and presented on teaching methodology in clinical phonetics and linguistics and the acquisition of speech.
Nicole has successfully worked with external academic groups on strategy development. She is the treasurer of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians.
Current Teaching
- Research Methods
- Dissertation
- Language Acquisition
Research Interests
Nicole's research looks at the acquisition of speech by children and adults. She is particularly interested in the acquisition of speech timing and vowels. She is currently working on a project that looks at the realisation of pre-vocalic boundaries in the speech of German, Italian and Arabic Speakers of L2 English. She is also interested in how accents affect the way people are perceived by others.
Ask Me About
- Phonetics
- Linguistics
- Accents
- Language Acquisition
- Speaking
- Languages
- Speech and Language Therapy
