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Mees, Inger M., Barbara Dragsted, Inge Gorm Hansen and Arnt Lykke Jakobsen 2015 Sound effects in translation Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process Research, Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien (eds.), pp. 141–155 | Article

On the basis of a pilot study using speech recognition (SR) software, this chapter attempts to illustrate the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach in translator training. It shows how the collaboration between phoneticians, translators and interpreters can (1) advance research, (2)… read more

Mees, Inger M., Barbara Dragsted, Inge Gorm Hansen and Arnt Lykke Jakobsen 2013 Sound effects in translation Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process Research, Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien (eds.), pp. 140–154 | Article

On the basis of a pilot study using speech recognition (SR) software, this paper attempts to illustrate the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach in translator training. It shows how the collaboration between phoneticians, translators and interpreters can (1) advance research, (2)… read more

Livbjerg, Inge and Inger M. Mees 2003 Patterns of dictionary use in non-domain-specific translation Triangulating Translation: Perspectives in process oriented research, Alves, Fabio (ed.), pp. 123–136 | Article

Collins, Beverley and Inger M. Mees 1996 Spreading everwhere? How Recent a Phenomenon is Glottalisation in Received Pronunciation? English World-Wide 17:2, pp. 175–187 | Article

There is no doubt that glottalisation of syllable-final stops in Received Pronunciation is on the increase, but this has sometimes been taken to imply that the feature has mushroomed as a late 20th-century phenomenon. This paper sets out to show that glottalisation is actually of some antiquity.… read more

Collins, Beverley and Inger M. Mees 1995 Daniel Jones, Paul Passy, and the development of the cardinal vowel system Historiographia Linguistica 22:1/2, pp. 197–216 | Article

Developed in the first quarter of the present century, Daniel Jones’s (1881–1967) Cardinal Vowel theory has proved for many years to be the most popular and enduring model of vowel description. Only relatively recently have doubts about its shaky theoretical foundations – first expressed as early… read more

Mees, Inger M. 1987 Glottal Stop as a Prestigious Feature in Cardiff English English World-Wide 8:1, pp. 25–39 | Article