Professor Alice Turk

Inaugural lecture of Professor Alice Turk, 15 March 2012.

Event details

Lecture title: "Timing in talking: How is it controlled, and what is it for?"

Date: 15 March 2012, 5pm

Venue: Auditorium lecture theatre, Business School

Lecture abstract

Our speech timing skills are most obvious when speaking exceptionally fast or in rhythm. However, the timing patterns we use in normal everyday speech are highly complex, and just as carefully orchestrated.

In this talk, I discuss how we control timing to communicate efficiently and effectively. Among other things, I discuss aspects of speech timing that signal linguistic structure and meaning, as well as the role of general, non-speech motor mechanisms in speech timing control.

Lecture video