Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ineke Mennen

About Ineke Mennen

Ineke Mennen is Professor of Applied English Linguistics at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Graz. Before coming to Graz in February 2015, she held the Chair of Bilingualism and Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and English Language/Centre for Bilingualism at Bangor University (UK). She has also held positions at other universities in the UK, such as the University of Edinburgh, Newcastle University, and Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh).

Research interests:
Ineke Mennen’s main focus in research has been on intonation. She is particularly interested in understanding along which dimensions intonation (and other prosodic aspects) differs across languages or language varieties, and how such differences are generated in speech production, evaluated in speech perception, acquired in first or second language acquisition, and lost or broken down in conditions of attrition or speech impairment.

Research funding:
Ineke Mennen has received research grants and fellowships from the Economic and Social Research Council (EHRC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the British Academy (BA), NHS Highland Endowment Fund, and Ataxia UK. Currently, Prof. Mennen is working on the FWF funded project "When your native language sounds foreign".