Barristers present formalised legal arguments before courts and tribunals. As a result, considerable focus is placed on their oral skills. However, people are frequently judged by the accent they use. Those with a more standard accent – ‘Received Pronunciation’ (RP) in the UK – can be perceived as more intelligent and eloquent. This creates a barrier...

Assistant Professor Department of English Language College of Language Sciences King Saud University Riyadh 11495 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Awarding Institution: University of Leeds, UK Date of Award: 14 October 2022

Previous research has demonstrated that vowel formants situated near the lower limit of the bandwidth show effects of the telephone filter (Künzel 2001; Byrne and Foulkes 2004). In this work, the effects of the landline telephone filter are examined for one consonant, namely fricative /s/. Although this speech sound is expected to show large effects...

Correctly identifying when an individual is lying based on their nonverbal communication has been a central aim of researchers and practitioners. Traditionally, research has focused on individual ‘tells’ or indicators of deception. More recently, researchers have focused on clusters and sequences of nonverbal gestures; however, these methods can lead...