Dr Patricia Ashby
Email: ashbyp@westminster.ac.uk
Postal:
University of Westminster,
Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, 32-38 Wells Street,
London, W1T 3UW
Patricia Ashby was educated at the University of Lancaster (where she studied for a BA in English) and at UCL (where, as a postgraduate student, she completed an MA and then a PhD, both in phonetics). She joined the University of Westminster staff in 1975 as a Visiting Lecturer when the University was still the Polytechnic of Central London. She has taught phonetics and phonology all over the world, including Belgium, Germany, India, Poland and Japan, and in the UK at the universities of Reading, Oxford and UCL (working on the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics programme where she is currently Director of the IPA Certificate Strand) as well as here at Westminster. She is the author of a number of books on phonetics including the popular Speech Sounds, published by Routledge, and Undersanding Phonetics, published by Hodder Education. She held a full-time permanent post at the University of Westminster from 1982 until 2011..
Patricia's main research interests are in the areas of phonetic pedagogy, allophonic variation in English speech, and English intonation. Her currently research focuses on pre-vodcasting as an aid to learning, l-vocalization, and fricative articulation (especially devoicing) in English and Polish.
Outside of the University, she is a Member of Council of the International Phonetic Association, for which she is also the Examinations Secretary, running the Certificate in the Phonetics of English which takes place annually each summer. Since retiring, Patricia continues to represent her subject area at national level, maintaining her involvement with the Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies (formerly the LLAS Subject Centre). She is a member of the Committee for Linguistics in Education, a member of the Higher Education Academy, an honorary Vice President of the Spelling Society (formerly the Simplified Spelling Society), and a member of the British Association for Academic Phoneticians. Patricia was a founder member of the University Council for General and Applied Linguistics.
Patricia is an Emeritus Fellow to the University of Westminster and a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Publications
Books
Ashby, P (2011) Understanding Phonetics. London: Hodder Education
Ashby, P (2005, 2nd edition) Speech Sounds. London: Routledge.
Ashby, P (1995, 1st edition) Speech Sounds. London: Routledge.
Ashby, P, edited: J Dentante and Vangestel, F (1986) Word Acquisition. Antwerp: Plantyn Publishers.
Scott Sheldon, P, Theophil, V, and Vangestel, F (1985) Idiomactive English. Antwerp: Plantyn Publishers.
Becuwe, E, Dentant, J, Engels, L, Goethals, M, Jacobs, P, Schuerewegen , J, Scott Sheldon, P, Vangestel, F, Viaene, H and Wendelen, R (1980) The Magic Key, Round II: Teachers' Book. Antwerp: Plantyn Publishers.
Alexander, L G, with pronunciation and intonation materials by Patricia D Scott Sheldon (1979) Mainline Beginners B. London: Longman.
Alexander, L G with pronunciation exercises by Patricia D Scott Sheldon (1978) Mainline Beginners A: Teachers' Book. London: Longman.
Translation of Engels, L K, et al. (1977) The Magic Key, Round II. Teachers' Book. Antwerp: Plantyn Publishers.
Alexander, L G, Kingsbury, R H and Scott Sheldon, Patricia D (1977) Mainline Skills B: Tapescript. London: Longman.
Alexander, L G, with pronunciation and intonation materials by Patricia D Scott Sheldon (1977) Mainline Beginners A. London: Longman.
Becuwe, E, Dentant, J, Engels, L, Goethals, M, Jacobs, P, Schuerewegen , J, Scott Sheldon, P, Vangestel, F, Viaene, H and Wendelen, R (1976) The Magic Key, Round II. Antwerp: Plantyn Publishers.
Becuwe, E, Dentant, J, Engels, L, Goethals, M, Jacobs, P, Schuerewegen , J, Scott Sheldon, P, Vangestel, F, Viaene, H and Wendelen, R (1975) The Magic Key, Round I. Antwerp: Plantyn Publishers.
Scott Sheldon, P (1974) Spoken English: A Practical Workbook for Speakers of Dutch. (Antwerp: De Nederlandsche Boekhandel.
Dekeyser, X and Scott Sheldon, P (1974) An Introduction to the Articulation of the RP Phonemes. Antwerp: De Nederlandsche Boekhandel.
Book chapters
Ashby, P (2005) “Phonetics Pedagogy” in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Ed. K.Brown. Amsterdam: Elsevier,
Ashby, P (2005) “Ear-training” in The EPSJ Practical Dictionary of English Phonetics, The English Phonetic Society of Japan. Japan: Seibido,
Ashby, M G and Ashby, P (1990) "Generalisations on RP consonant clusters" in S Ramsaran (Ed.), Studies in the Pronunciation of English: A Commemorative Volume in Honour of A.C. Gimson. London: Routledge,
Scott Sheldon, P (1973) "Letter Writing in English" Appendix to De Moor, W and Dekeyser, X, A Direct Way to English for Fifth-Formers. Antwerp: De Nederlandsche Boekhandel.
Journal articles and reviews
Ashby, P (2011) "The l-vocalisation trend in young London English speech – growing or declining?"
Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan, 14.
Ashby, M and Ashby, P (2009) "The London phonetics training of Masao Kanehiro (1883 1978)". Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan, 13, pages 21-37.
Ashby, P (2003) Review of “CATFORD, J. (2001) A Practical Introduction to Phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press” in The Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Ashby, P (1977) Review of C Gussenhoven and A Broeders, The Pronunciation of English. Wolters-Noordhoff Longman, Groningen (1976) in Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Scott Sheldon, P (1976) The analysis of sound pattern features as an FLT aid." In ITL.
Scott Sheldon, P (1975) "What are we teaching? How may the term RP be defined, and to what extent may such a pronunciation be said to constitute a standard in Britain today?" in ITL
Conference proceedings, presentations and online publications
Ashby, P (2011)“The Flipped Lecture – A Pre-Vodcasting Trial” at the.University of Westminster Annual Learning and Teaching Symposium. London, UK. (Poster)
Ashby, P (2011) “The Flipped Lecture – Pre-Vodcasting in Phonology.” Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference (PTLC 2011). Special session at the 17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/ptlc/ptlc2011/ptlc2011.php
Tillian, E and Ashby, P (2010) "A Phonetic Study of Ramsau am Dachstein German" at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, BAAP 2010. London, UK. (Poster)
Ashby, P and Taniguchi, M. (2009) "Assessing Intonation" in Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference – PTLC 2009. London, UK. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/ptlc/ptlc2009/ptlc2009-proceedings/PTLC2009_ASHBY_002_ed.pdf
Ashby, P (2009) "Phonetics in Pronunciation Teaching – or: Shall I s**t here on the chauffer? at the University of Westminster Interface with Linguistics 2009: Linguistics and Language Teaching. London, UK.
Ashby, P and Parry, Bryan (2008) "L-vocalization in the speech of young Londoners" at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, BAAP 2008. Sheffield, UK
Ashby, P (2008) "Field Notebooks, EBL and Assessment in Phonetics" at the LLAS Mark my Words workshop on assessment in linguistics. London, UK
Ashby, P (2008) "EBL and Field Notebooks – a formula for success" at the University of Westminster 2008 Learning and Teaching Symposium. London, UK.
Ashby, P (2008) "Order out of chaos. Field Notebooks and the student of speech and language therapy." at the British Association of Clinical Linguistics Conference. Reading, UK
Ashby, P (2007) "Phonetics ear-training – design and duration" in Trouvain, Jürgen and Barry, William (Eds) Proceedings of the 16th international congress of phonetic sciences. Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes. pp1657-1660.
Ashby, P (2007) "Fieldwork for success" in Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference – PTLC 2007. London, UK. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/ptlc/proceedings/ptlcpaper_08e.pdf
Ashby, P (2007) "Investing in Ear-training" in Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference – PTLC 2007. London, UK. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/ptlc/proceedings/ptlcpaper_07e.pdf
Ashby, P (2006) "Teaching students to recognise IPA consonants" (Poster) Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians – BAAP 2006 Edinburgh, UK.
Ashby, P, Manamperi, A and Youens, M (2005) “Discovering Phonetics: Learning through fieldwork” in Proceedings of the 2005 Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference – PTLC 2005. London, UK. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ptlc2005/pdf/ptlcp03.pdf
Ashby, P, Olausson, L and Valentine, S (2005) “Working with Phonetics”. in Proceedings of the 2005 Phonetics Teaching and Learning – PTLC 2005. London, UK. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ptlc2005/pdf/ptlcp04.pdf
Ashby, P (2004) “Primary Cardinal Vowels: the effects of contextualization and length of training on identification success rates.“ Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians – BAAP 2004. Cambridge, UK.
Ashby, P (2004) “Phonetics in One Word: Learning through fieldwork.” Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians – BAAP 2004. Cambridge, UK. (Poster)
Ashby, P (2004) “Phonetics in One Word: Learning through fieldwork.” (Poster) Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians – BAAP 2004. Cambridge, UK.
Ashby, P. (2003) “Learning Cardinal Vowels” in The Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona: Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona. pp 3089-3092
Ashby, P (2003) “Parallel Automated Feedback (PAF) in Phonetics Ear-Training.” LTSN Workshop, CILT/London.
Ashby, P. (2002) “Phonetics in pronunciation teaching for modern foreign languages.” in The Guide to Good Practice for learning and teaching in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. LTSN Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/resources/goodpractice.aspx?resourceid=408
Ashby, P (2000) "Phonetic judgements of Cardinal Vowels in ear-training." Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians – BAAP 2000. Glasgow.
Ashby, P (1988) "The intonation of spelling aloud: a rule-base for General British English." Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians – BAAP 1998. Dublin.
Ashby, MG, Ashby, P, Baldwin, J, Holmes, F, House, J and Maidment, J (1995) “Broad Transcription in Phonetic Training" in Speech, Hearing and Language. Work in Progress. London: UCL.
Ashby, M G and Ashby, P. (1995) "Spelling Aloud: a preliminary study in idiomatic intonation." in J. Windsor Lewis (Ed) Essays in English and General Phonetics. London: Routledge.
Ashby, M G, Ashby, P, Baldwin, J , Holmes, F, House, J, and Maidment, J (1995) "Broad transcription in phonetic training" in Elenius, Kjell and Branderud, Peter (Eds) Proceedings of the XIIIth International Conference of Phonetic Science. Stockholm.
Ashby, P (1981) "Auditorily detectable distortions in speech produced under EPG conditions."Institute of Acoustics, Speech Group Meeting, University of Oxford.
Scott Sheldon, P (1975) "Sandhi interference in the English of Dutch speakers." 8th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Leeds.
Invited lectures.
Ashby, P (2011) “Phonetics and the Flipped Classroom” Invited public lecture at the International Symposium ‘Phonetics and English Language Education. Kansai Gaidai University Intercultural Research Institute, Osaka, Japan. (Invited public lecture)
Ashby, P (2011) “Phonetics and the Flipped Classroom” at the 16th National Conference of the English Phonetic Society of Japan (EPSJ) and 2nd International Congress of Phoneticians of English.University of Kochi, Japan. (Keynote address)
Ashby, P (2011) “The Flipped Classroom – Teacher’s Dream Come True” at the London Language Show. London. (Invited public lecture)
Ashby, P (2008) "Getting it in Focus: Locating the nucleus in English intonation" at University of Kochi, Japan. (Invited public lecture)
Ashby, P (2008) "Getting it in Focus: Locating the nucleus in English intonation" Invited public lecture. Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan. (Invited public lecture)
Ashby, P (2005) “Phonetics in pedagogy – where do we draw the line?” 10th Annual Conference of the English Phonetic Society of Japan at the University of Kochi, Japan. (Keynote address)
Scott Sheldon, P (1976) "Phonetic features of the Dutch phonemic system." University of Leeds. (Invited departmental lecture)
