Victoria University of Wellington
Sasha Calhoun is an Associate Professor at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her research focuses on the functions of prosody and intonation, involving a range of international and national collaborations investigating prosody in languages including Samoan, te reo Māori, Chinese, Spanish and German, and English. Her recent work includes a Marsden funded project looking at the perception of focus in English and Samoan. Research from her team examines the role of prosody in signalling important information in speech, speech production and perception, pragmatic meanings, second language acquisition and distinguishing varieties of English. She has also worked on intonation within an exemplar-theoretic framework. Her research interests span phonetic and phonological analysis, psycholinguistic models of language production and comprehension, computational modelling and corpus investigation of prosody and intonation, as well as the generation of prosody in speech synthesis.
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