• Bachelor degree in Arabic language and literature. College of Arts, Kuwait University, 2015.
• Masters in Linguistics, School of Linguistics, Newcastle University, 2017. Thesis title: The effect of phonetics and phonology interaction on the derivation of superheavy syllables in Arabic dialects
• PhD in speech and language sciences. Newcastle University, 2022. Thesis title: Hierarchical timing in verities of Kuwaiti Arabic.

Research, Teaching. 

Courses taught: Phonetics and phonology, Sociolinguistic, Introduction to Linguistics, Generative syntax. All for undegraduates

My work is in phonetics and phonology, particularly, the prosodic aspects of speech production and perception. I investigate acoustic correlates of the prosodic structure across languages and dialects, Arabic dialects in particular. My aim is to understand the influences of language-specific and dialect-specific lexical and structural properties on the acoustics of prosody and on communication aspects of speech. I’m also interested in understanding the mechanisms speakers use to manipulate/distribute the acoustics of speech to signal structure and how listeners interpret those cues to perceive speech structures.

Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, Prosody, Speech production and perception, Acoustic analysis

(Mis) perception of consonant clusters and short vowels in English as a Foreign language, 2021. International Review of Applied linguistics in Language Teaching. Alex Ho-Cheong Leung  , Martha Young-Scholten , Wael Almurashi , Saleh Ghadanfari , Chloe Nash and Olivia Outhwaite

Ghadanfari, S., & White, L. (2025). The role of prosodic durational variation in the temporal coordination of utterances. In L. Meyer & A. Strauss. (Eds.), Rhythms of Speech and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Comparing prosodic timing effects in Hadari and Bedouin Kuwaiti Arabic dialects: S speech cycling study. Saleh Ghadanfari, Laurence White, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Ghada Khattab (Forthcoming in Language and Speech).