Pauline Welby is a linguist specialized in phonetics and laboratory phonology, and a tenured researcher at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Aix Marseille University, CNRS (UMR 7309). Since 2021 she has been a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en éduction (LIRE), UNC.
She received a B.A. in classics from Brandeis University and an M.A. and a PhD in linguistics from the Ohio State University. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut de la Communication Parlée/GIPSA-lab in Grenoble, France and at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.
Pauline Welby’s current research themes include prosody and its role in language processing, the limits and contributions of the variability inherent in speech, the influence of orthography on second language learning, the relationship between audiovisual speech processing and reading ability in children, and the phonetics and phonology of the Kanak languages drehu and paicî. She is also interested in developing resources for under- (or un-) resourced languages.
She would be delighted to talk with with students and colleagues and to supervise student interns.