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
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
Qualifications and experience
Some of my publications
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