Biography
Francis Nolan's interests centre on Phonetic theory. His early research looked at how, and to what extent, the identity of a speaker is encoded in speech - see for instance his book The Phonetic Bases of Speaker Recognition (Cambridge: CUP, 1983 [reissued 2009]), and as a consequence he has been active in the application of Phonetics in forensic science. He led two ESRC-funded projects, DyViS and VoiceSim, which studied aspects of speaker identity. His research interests also include prosody (including speech rhythm and dialect differences in intonation), and the Phonetic variation which occurs in fluent, natural speech. His teaching has covered phonetic theory and description, phonology, practical phonetic skills, and experimental phonetics.
Publications
Prosody
F. Nolan (in press) The rise and fall of the British School of intonation analysis. To appear in: J. Barnes & S. Shattuck-Hufnagel (eds), Prosodic Theory and Practice. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
F. Nolan (2021) Intonation. In: B. Aarts, A. McMahon, & L. Hinrichs (eds), Handbook of English Linguistics (2nd Edition). Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 385–405.
H-S. Jeon & F. Nolan (2017) Prosodic marking of narrow focus in Seoul Korean. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 8(1) 2, 1–30. doi: 10.5334/labphon.48
F. Nolan & H-S. Jeon (2014) Speech rhythm: a metaphor? Transactions of the Royal Society B 369, 20130396. doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0396
F. Nolan & B. Post (2014) The IViE Corpus. In: J. Durand, U. Gut & G. Kristoffersen, (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Corpus Phonology. Oxford: OUP, 475-485.
F. Nolan & E.L. Asu (2009) The Pairwise Variability Index and coexisting rhythms in language. Phonetica 66, 64-77. doi: 10.1159/000208931
E-L. Low, E. Grabe, & F. Nolan (2000) Quantitative characterizations of speech rhythm: syllable-timing in Singapore English. Language & Speech43, 377-401.
Forensic Phonetics
Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Nolan, F., & Li, Y. (2018) The role of segments and prosody in the identification of a speaker’s dialect. Journal of Phonetics 68, 69-84. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2018.02.001
K. McDougall, F. Nolan, and T. Hudson (2015) Telephone transmission and earwitnesses: performance on voice parades controlled for voice similarity. Phonetica 72, 257–272. doi:10.1159/000439385
F. Nolan, K. McDougall & T. Hudson (2013) Effects of the telephone on perceived voice similarity: implications for voice line-ups. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 20(2), 229-246. doi: 10.1558/ijsll.v20i2.229
F. Nolan (2012) Degrees of freedom in speech production: an argument for native speakers in LADO. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 19(2), 263-289. doi: 10.1558/ijsll.v19i2.263
F. Nolan (2003) A recent voice parade. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law [formerly Forensic Linguistics] 10(2), 277-291.
F. Nolan (1983; reissued 2009) The Phonetic Bases of Speaker Recognition. Cambridge: CUP.
Connected Speech Processes
K. Yoo & F. Nolan (2020) Sampling the progression of domain-initial denasalization in Seoul Korean. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 11(1), 22. doi: 10.5334/labphon.203
B. Kühnert & F. Nolan (1999) The origin of coarticulation. In: W.J. Hardcastle and N. Hewlett (eds), Coarticulation: Theory, Data and Techniques in Speech Production. Cambridge: CUP. pp 7-30
F. Nolan (1992) The descriptive role of segments: evidence from assimilation. In: G. Docherty and D.R. Ladd (eds.), Laboratory Phonology 2, 261-280. Cambridge: CUP.
Publications (from Symplectic)
2024
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4162
2023
Doi: 10.1177/17470218231155738
2022 (Accepted for publication)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2022.01.004
2020
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/CJAL-2019-0027
Doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2020.08.003
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/LABPHON.203
2018
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.02.001
2017
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.48
2015
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1159/000439385
2014
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0396
2013
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1121/1.4798663
2012
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v16i1.31
2011 (No publication date)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v17i1.143
2010
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v17i1.143
2009
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v16i1.31
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1159/000208931
Doi: 10.1558/ijsll.v16i1.31
2008
Doi: 10.1558/ijsll.vl5i2.161
2007
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/00238309070500040401
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/00238309070500040401
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74122-0_12
2006
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100306002349
2005
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1558/sll.2005.12.2.143
2003
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1558/sll.2003.10.2.277
2002
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1558/sll.2002.9.1.1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1558/sll.2002.9.1.74
2000
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00073-4
Doi: 10.1006/jpho.2000.0111
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/00238309000430040301
1999
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100300006496
1996
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1006/jpho.1996.0008
1995
Doi: 10.1017/s0025100300000165
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/01690969508407112
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3109/13682829509082527
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/01690969508407109
1994
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/0167-6393(94)90045-0
1993
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/003231879304500205
1992
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/S0095-4470(19)30247-5
1991
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700012755
1990
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/S0095-4470(19)30373-0
1988
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100300003650
1987
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700011361
1982
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1982.20.3-4.287
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700013724
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226700013785
1981
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444800009010
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2020
2019
Doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2098
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPIT47144.2019.9001855
2017
Doi: http://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1630
2016
Doi: http://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2016-222
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2020
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781119540618.ch20
2017
Doi: 10.3726/b11152
2015 (Published online)
Doi: 10.1075/cilt.335.13pos
2015
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315688367
2014
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781410611888
2013
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2012
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199575039.013.0019
2008
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9780470753002.ch19
2007
Doi: 10.1075/cilt.282.08ast
Doi: 10.1515/9783110207569.233
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Doi: 10.1017/cbo9780511519918.011
1990
Doi: 10.1515/9783111356464.457
1982
2012 (No publication date)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-6790-1