Tom Starr-Marshall

@tstarrmarshall.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Phonetics/Linguistics/Research Methods at Wrexham University. Freelancer with Oxford English Dictionary Pronunciations Team. #UniversityChallenge 20/21 with University of Strathclyde (views are my own not of my employer)

Ianto Gruffydd and Mercedes Durham's #BAAP2026 talk is on pre-/l/ breaking (e.g. "Wales" as "Way-uhls") in South East Wales English. Exploring how to operationalize a 'breaking onset point' as the acoustic measure to differentiate between tokens perceived as having breaking and those without.

Studying the McGurk Effect can help clinicians measure how much of an individual's auditory perception is shaped by visual influence. However, studies on this effect in aging adults have proven inconclusive. Learn more in this review! https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00026

A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis of the McGurk Effect in Older and Younger Adults

Purpose: The McGurk effect is a well-established phenomenon to evaluate audiovisual integration. However, research on susceptibility to the McGur...

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In preparation for the imminent publication of the new edition of my R textbook, the updated interactive tutorials are now available on CRAN. I did a massive re-write last summer, road tested them in my teaching last term, and I’m pretty happy with them. For now. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

discovr: Interactive Tutorials and Data for "Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio"

Interactive 'R' tutorials and datasets for the textbook Field (2026), "Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio", &lt;<a href="https://www.discovr.rocks/" target="_top">https://www.discovr.rocks/</a...

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#OnThisDay 2007, the launch of the first Kindle ebook readers. They sold out in 6 hours. Kindle entered English around 1200 spelled as cundel (to set fire to) probably either from Old Norse kynda (to light a fire), Old Norse kyndill (candle), or Swedish quindla (kindle). 1/2 🧵#etymology

Thanks so much for any colleagues who nominated me for the Wrexham University Above and Beyond Award for Researcher of the Year. It’s great to see our Welsh vowels Ultrasound Tongue Imaging study getting such recognition. Massive thanks to all those who helped!

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Pleased to present initial results at the Open House Research event at Wrexham University of our study investigating the production of Welsh vowels carried out at the National Eisteddfod back in August. Great talks also from Chris Bellis (Physiotherapy) and Dmitrii Iarovoi (Cyber and Computing).

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