Reader in Speech and Language Sciences (school of ECLS) Email: laurence.white@ncl.ac.uk Staff Profile: <link> Personal website: <link>
Research interests:
- Speech perception and production
- Prosody, especially speech timing
- First and second language acquisition
My research relates to speech perception, speech production and their relationship. In perceptual work, a primary focus is on speech segmentation: how listeners locate the boundaries between spoken words in adult speech processing, infant language development and second language acquisition. More generally, I am interested in the form and functions of prosody, particularly speech timing, and in perceptually-informed characterisations of prosodic differences between languages. Recent work has examined social and emotional interpretations of prosody.
