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Anna Sfakianaki

Anna Sfakianaki

Dr Anna Sfakianaki is a Phonetician/Linguist and Educator. She is permanent Teaching Staff (E.DI.P.) at the Speech Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, and Adjunct Academic Staff at the Hellenic Open University. She holds a PhD in Linguistics (Phonetics) (Department of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), an MA in Applied Linguistics (University of Reading, UK), a BA (Hons) in Education Sciences and a two-year PGDip in Special Education (University of Crete). Her post-doc work includes participation in the academic projects VOCALECT (Thalis), Digital Museum of Greek Oral History (Latsis Foundation) and SpeakGreek (Aristeia II). She has worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Philology, University of Crete and at the Speech and Language Therapy Program at Leeds Metropolitan University (UK). She has also worked as a Research Officer at the Department of Linguistic Science (University of Reading, UK), on the European project SPECO “A multimedia multilingual teaching and training system for speech handicapped children”. Additionally, she has served for 13 years as a Primary School Teacher at mainstream primary schools as well as at the Primary School for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing of Heraklion, Crete. Her research interests lie mainly in the field of Speech and Hearing Sciences, and especially in normal and disordered speech production and perception, as well as in language and pronunciation teaching using new technologies.

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PhD Thesis “An Acoustic Study of Coarticulation in the speech of Greek adults with Normal Hearing and Hearing Impairment”

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University of Crete
Department of Computer Science
Voutes Campus 700 13
Heraklion Crete, Greece
Office E.307 (2nd floor)

Tel: +30 2810 393576
E-mail: asfakianaki AT csd DOT uoc DOT gr