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Invited Conference presentations (since 2000)

September 2000: Interactional Linguistics. EuroConference on the Linguistic Organisation of Conversational Activities. Spa, Belgium. Phonetic Construction of Collaborative Completions.


October, 2000: Patterns of speech sounds in unscripted communication, Sankelmark, Germany. Speaking other people's minds: the phonetics of Collaborative Completions. Organised by IPDSP, Kiel, under the auspices of the International Phonetics Association.
pdf version of the abstract
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May 2001: 10th Anniversary of the Laboratoire d'analyse informatique de la parole (LAIP). University of Lausanne. What, if anything, can talk-in-interaction teach us for speech synthesis? Keynote address.
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March 2002: (with Paul Carter) Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Newcastle. Tracking resonance differences in English liquids.
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April 2002: Aix-Cambridge Symposium on Speech Perception:Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech (TIPS). Aix-en-Provence. Variable domains and variable relevance: interpreting phonetic exponents. Keynote address.
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May 2002: International Conference on Conversation Analysis, Copenhagen, Denmark. 'Getting back to' prior talk: and-u(h)m as a skip-connecting device. Special panel on ‘prosody’.
pdf version of the abstract
pdf version of the handout
tarred selected audio files (aiff)

September 2002: EuroConference on Linguistic Structures and their Deployment in the Organisation of Conversation, Helsinki, Finland. Mind the Gap: Rushthroughs as a practice for doing two actions in one turn
(with Gareth Walker)
pdf version of the abstract
pdf version of the handout
tarred selected audio files (aiff)

August 2003: Position paper Phonetics and talk-in-interaction for symposium on Phonetics and talk-in-interaction at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona 2003.

November 2003: Keynote address Reconstruing prosody in talk-in-interaction.North Western Centre for Linguistics International Conference: Prosody and Pragmatics. Preston.

Recent papers

On the sequential distribution of a phonetic event: Abrupt-joins as a resource for the production of multi-unit, multi-action turns. (with Gareth Walker). Accepted subject to revision Journal of Pragmatics.
Repetition and the prosody pragmatics interface. (with Traci Curl and Gareth Walker). Submitted to Journal of Pragmatics.
On the interactional and phonetic design of collaborative completions. To appear in A Figure of Speech: a Festschrift for John Laver (eds) W. Hardcastle and J. Beck.
Getting back to prior talk: and-uh(m) as a back-connecting device (and the Figure for the paper). To appear in Sound patterns in interaction: cross-linguistic studies of phonetics and prosody for conversation (eds) E. Couper-Kuhlen and C. Ford.
Phonetics and talk-in-interaction Position paper for symposium on Phonetics and talk-in-interaction at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona 2003.

Seminars and Workshops (since 2000)

I have also presented results of the work on Phonetics in talk-in-interaction, arising from my British Academy Readership, to research seminars and workshops at a variety of venues which include:

The University of Essex
The University of Newcastle
The University of Sheffield
The University of Manchester
The University of Boulder, Colorado, USA
The University of Dresden, Germany
The University of Kiel, Germany
ESRC Seminar York
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