Dr Katerina Nicolaidis is an Associate Professor at the Department of
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Aristotle
University, an MA in Theoretical Linguistics and a PhD in Phonetics from the
University of Reading, UK. Prior to her employment at Aristotle University, she
worked at the Department of Linguistic Sciences, University of Reading, and the
Department of Speech and Language Sciences, Queen Margaret University College,
Edinburgh. She is the director of the Phonetics Laboratory of the School of
English. She has been the Vice-President of the International Phonetic
Association (IPA) and President of the Permanent Council for the Organisation of
the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences since 2011. She also served as
Secretary of the IPA during 2003-2011. She teaches courses in phonetics,
phonology, phonological development, and methodology for the teaching of English
pronunciation. Her main research interests are in the area of experimental
phonetics. She has worked for several research projects and has carried out
research in normal and disordered speech production, phonological acquisition,
coarticulation, articulatory variability in different speaking styles,
methodology of teaching pronunciaton. She has published her research in books,
journals and conference proceedings.
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