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Convenors:
Prof. Peter L. Patrick
Language & Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
Essex, UK
+44 (0) 1206 872088

Prof. Monika Schmid Language & Linguistics University of Essex & University of Groningen
+44 (0) 1206 872089  

Dr. Karin Zwaan
Centre for Migration Law Radboud University Nijmegen P.O. Box 9049
6500KK Nijmegen
the Netherlands
+31 24 361.2934

E-mail: larg@essex.ac.uk

Helen Fraser

Helen Fraser photoExpertise:

  • Phonetics - Forensic Transcription - Second Language Pronunciation - Intercultural Spoken Communication

Qualifications:

  • BA Hons (Macquarie)

  • PhD (Edinburgh)

Dr. Helen Fraser studied linguistics and phonetics at Macquarie University, Sydney, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, then taught phonetics and related subjects in linguistics departments at several universities in the UK and Ireland before taking a position at the University of New England, Australia, which she held from 1990 to 2008. She is now an independent researcher and consultant, as well as currently working part time at UNE's Teaching and Learning Centre on a project titled 'Speaking and Listening in the Multicultural University'.

Dr. Fraser's research focuses on cognitive aspects of phonetics and phonology, and covers both theoretical and applied topics, especially second language pronunciation and forensic transcription. She first became aware of LADO in 2003, when she was a founding member of the Language & National Origin Group who authored the 2004 Guidelines..., and since then has continued to take an interest as an independent commentator.

Helen Fraser's webpage

Email:

helen            Please add:    @helenfraser.com.au

Related Publications

2011 (in press). Response to The role of linguists and native speakers in language analysis for the determination of speaker origin by Tina Cambier-Langeveld. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.

2011. (in press). Language analysis for the determination of origin (LADO). In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.

2010. Transcripts in the legal system. In I. Freckelton & H. Selby (eds.), Expert Evidence (Chapter 100). Sydney: Thomson Reuters.

2009. The role of educated native speakers in providing language analysis for the determination of the origin of asylum seekers. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 16(1), 113-138.

2004. (coauthor) Guidelines for the use of language analysis in relation to questions of national origin in refugee cases. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law: Forensic Linguistics, 11(2): 261-266. Available at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/ 

2003. (with Diana Eades, Tim McNamara, Jeff Siegel & Brett Baker.) Linguistic identification in the determination of nationality: A preliminary report. Language Policy 2(2): 179-199.

2003. Issues in Transcription: Factors affecting the reliability of transcripts as evidence in legal cases. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 10(2), 203-226.