Expert profiles

Dr Duncan Markham and Dr Debbie Loakes are the team at Ear & Speak, the only provider of accent training services by true specialists. Our academic training, unique knowledge, practical experience, and two-decade track-record of helping clients means that we are the experts in Australia.

We are the only trainers in Australia with

  • comprehensive technical understanding of the phonetic and challenges and solutions that form pahtrt of effective, advanced accent learning and modification
  • up-to-date insight into current spoken and written English
  • detailed knowledge of how a wide range of other languages are structured
  • extensive experience in phonetics and linguistics, teaching to a range audiences
  • academic research in accent, phonetics, language use, Australian English and other varieties of English.

We also have experience in

  • writing, editing and translation
  • communication of complex ideas to diverse audiences
  • forensic speech analysis
  • training overseas graduates in Australia to perform well in job interviews

Dr Duncan Markham

Dr Duncan Markham

Qualifications and experience

Some of my publications

  • Markham, Duncan and Valerie Hazan. (2004). The Effect of Talker- and Listener-Related Factors on Intelligibility for a Real-Word, Open-Set Perception Test. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research 47(4):725-3.
  • Markham, D. and V. Hazan. (2002). Talker intelligibility: Child and adult listener performance. Journal of The Acoustical Society of America 111(5):2481-2481.
  • Markham, D. (2000), Individual differences in the acquisition of second-language speech. In A. James and J. Leather (eds), New Sounds 2000 (pp. 236-9). Klagenfurt: University of Klagenfurt.
  • Markham, D. (1999), Listeners and disguised voices: the imitation and perception of dialectal accent. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 6(2):290-299.
  • Markham, D. (1997), Phonetic Imitation, Accent, and the Learner. Lund: Lund University Press
  • Markham, D. and Y. Nagano-Madsen (1996), Input modality effects in foreign accent. In H.T. Bunnell and W. Idsardi (eds), International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ’96 (Vol 3, pp. 1473-6).

Dr Debbie Loakes

Dr Debbie Loakes

Qualifications and experience

Some of my publications

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