Dr. Irena Yanushevskaya

I studied Germanic Philology and Translation Studies, English and French at St Petersburg State University, Russia, and obtained my PhD in Phonetics there in 2001. I worked in St Petersburg State University at the Department of Phonetics, Faculty of Philology for several years as a Lecturer in Phonetics. I completed another PhD in Trinity College Dublin, also in Phonetics, in 2010. I worked as a Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in the Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, TCD, on a number of research projects (HUMAINE - Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion; Next Generation Localisation; FASTNET - Focus on Actions in Social Talk: Network-Enabling Technology; ABAIR). At the same time, I taught Phonetics and Instrumental Phonetics at the Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Galway. I am currently an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin.

  LINGUISTICS   Phonetics   SPEECH PROSODY   Voice   Voice quality

I am an expert phonetician. My research over the past decade has been concerned with the role of the voice source in speech communication, in particular voice source dynamics in the signalling of linguistic prosody (e.g., prominence, accentuation, deaccentuation) and in the signalling of emotion and affect. I have worked on the development of robust tools for voice analysis. I have a strong interest in clinical applications of phonetic sciences. Recently I have been working on collecting normative data for Cepstral Peak Prominence, a voice parameter currently suggested as a robust tool for clinical voice assessment. My research explores how speaker gender, age, speech task segmental composition, recording conditions and CPP extraction method affect CPP values.