Richard Ogden

Background

Academic life

October 2003-present: Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language & Linguistic Science

October 1995-September 2003: Lecturer in the Department of Language & Linguistic Science

1990-1994: Research Assistant in the Department of Language & Linguistic Science working on speech synthesis

D.Phil., University of York 1995. Thesis title: An exploration of phonetic exponency in Firthian Prosodic Analysis: form and substance in Finnish phonology.

M.Phil. Darwin College, University of Cambridge, 1988-1989. Computer Speech and Language Processing.

B.A. (First Class Hons.) Queens' College, University of Cambridge, 1984-1987. Modern & Mediaeval Languages (Part I: German & Swedish; Part II: Swedish, Linguistics, Phonetics.)

Languages

I am proficient in (in approximate order of ability) English, Swedish, French, Finnish, German, and smatterings of other languages (the way linguists often do). I have passed CACDP Level 1 in British Sign Language and am working towards Level 2.

Other

I spend a lot of my non-work time being assistant clerk to Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), practising my butterfly in the pool, walking in the hills, and learning BSL.