Peter Roach (phonetician)

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Peter John Roach

(1943-06-30) 30 June 1943 (age 79)
London
NationalityBritish
Occupation Phonetician
Notable workEnglish Phonetics and Phonology; English Pronouncing Dictionary, eds. 15–18
Website peterroach.net

Peter John Roach (born 30 June 1943) is a British retired phonetician. He taught at the Universities of Leeds and Reading, and is best known for his work on the pronunciation of British English. [1]

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Education

Peter Roach studied Classics at the Priory Grammar School for Boys, Shrewsbury. At Oxford University (Brasenose College, 1962–1966) he took Classical Honour Moderations before graduating in psychology and philosophy (PPP). He studied teaching English overseas at Manchester University then went on to University College London to take a postgraduate course in phonetics. Later, while a lecturer at the University of Reading, he completed a PhD which was awarded in 1978.

Career

From 1968 to 1978 he was Lecturer in Phonetics at the University of Reading, UK, and for the academic year 1975–1976 was Profesor Encargado de Curso in the Department of English at the University of Seville, Spain, on leave from Reading University. He moved to the University of Leeds in 1978, initially as Senior Lecturer in Phonetics. Subsequently, after moving to the Department of Psychology, he was appointed Professor of Cognitive Psychology. He returned to the University of Reading in 1994 as Professor of Phonetics, later becoming head of the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. He retired in 2004 with the title of Emeritus Professor of Phonetics. [2]

Writing

His best-known publication is English Phonetics and Phonology (C.U.P.). The book was first published in 1983 [3] [4] and is now in its 4th edition (2009). An enhanced e-book edition was published in 2013. [5] He has been the principal editor of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary for all editions from the 15th (1997) to the current 18th (2011) [6] [7] which is also published in CD-ROM format [8] and an Apple app. [9] Other books include Phonetics (OUP, 2001), in the series 'Oxford Introductions to Language Study', and Introducing Phonetics (Penguin, 1992). Since the latter became out of print, Roach has made it available in PDF format on the internet as A Little Encyclopaedia of Phonetics. [10] He has published a large number of research papers and been an invited speaker in fifteen countries.

Research

He has held a number of grants for speech research. He was principal investigator of the ESRC-funded project that resulted in the MARSEC machine-readable version of the Spoken English Corpus, [11] and was project director of the European-funded project that produced the BABEL multi-language speech corpus. [12] He was a partner in the European project SPECO that produced a computer-based training system to improve deaf children's speech. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Kozikowska, Maria. "Peter Roach". Pronunciation Studio. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  2. ↑ https://www.reading.ac.uk/elal/staff/professor-peter-roach
  3. ↑ Tench, Paul (1984). "Review of P. Roach English Phonetics and Phonology". ELTJ. 38 (4): 296–8. doi:10.1093/elt/38.4.296 . Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  4. ↑ Windsor Lewis, Jack (1983). "Review of P. Roach English Phonetics and Phonology". Journal of the International Phonetic Association: 97–102. doi:10.1017/S0025100300002607. S2CID   145518742.
  5. ↑ Patsko, Laura (2015). "Review of English Phonetics and Phonology Ebook Edition". Modern English Teacher. 24 (1): 81–2. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  6. ↑ Windsor Lewis, Jack (1999). "Review of Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary". ELTJ. 53 (3). Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  7. ↑ Cruttenden, Alan (1997). "Review of Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary edited by Peter Roach and James Hartman, and Longman Pronunciation Dictionary edited by J.C.Wells". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 27 (1–2): 81–6. doi:10.1017/S0025100300005454.
  8. ↑ Sobkowiak, Wlodzimierz (2005). "Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary on CD-ROM". Tesl-Ej. 8 (4).
  9. ↑ Apple. "Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary". iTunes . Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  10. ↑ Roach, Peter. "A Little Encyclopaedia of Phonetics" . Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  11. ↑ Roach, P.J.; Knowles, G.O.; Varadi, T.; Arnfield, S.C. (1994). "MARSEC: A MAchine-Readable Spoken English Corpus". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 23 (2): 47–54. doi:10.1017/s0025100300004849. S2CID 145797962.
  12. ↑ Roach, P., Arnfield, S. and Hallum, E., ‘BABEL: A Multi-Language Speech Database’, Proceedings of the SST-96 Speech Science and Technology Conference, Adelaide, pp.351-4. (1996)
  13. ↑ Vicsi, K., Roach, P., Oster, A., Kacic, Z. and Barczikay, P. (1999) ‘SPECO: a multimedia multilingual teaching and training system for speech handicapped children’, Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco.
  14. ↑ Roach, Peter. "On the distinction between "stress-timed" and "syllable-timed" languages" (PDF). Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  15. ↑ Roach, Peter. "Illustrations of the IPA: British English (RP)".
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