Lluïsa Astruc

Short biography:

My current position is Lecturer in Spanish at the Department of Languages of The Open University. I am also an Affiliated Lecturer at the Spanish and Portuguese Department of the University of Cambridge.

Previously, I worked as an Associate Researcher at the Centre Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge (2008), Research Assistant on a project on motivation to learn modern languages (The Open University, 2006), and part-time as an Associate Lecturer of Spanish (The Open University, 2006-2008). I have worked on speech technology on consecutive contracts as Spanish Language Expert and as Linguistics Expert (Toshiba Research Europe, 2005-2007), and as a consultant in the Open University project “fOUndit” (http://foundit.open.ac.uk/) (2008-2009).

I did my PhD in the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Francis Nolan (2005). My examiners were Alan Cruttenden and Pilar Prieto. I also did an Mphil in the same department, also with Francis Nolan. Previous to that, I obtained a degree in Philology and a teaching qualification in Modern Languages (the equivalent of the British PGCE) from the University Rovira i Virgili, Spain (both 1996).

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Research interests:

My research has dealt mainly with phonetics and phonology, especially prosody, and with language acquisition. I have worked on the intonation of Catalan, Spanish and English. Go to Research if you want to know more about my current research interests. Go to Publications if you want to download some of my recent papers.