Emeritus Professor in Human Communication Sciences
Department:
Medicine, Dentistry and Health
Faculty:
Human Communication Sciences
Research Expertise:
- Phonetics of talk-in-interaction
- Typical and atypical speech development in children
Contact:
Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 2429
Email: bill.wells@sheffield.ac.uk
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Biography
Typical and atypical speech development in children:
- intonation
- linguistic, psycholinguistic and interactional approaches
http://www.stackhousewells.uk/
Phonetics of talk-in-interaction:
- turn-organisation and overlapping talk; alignment; focus
- Turn taking by cochlear implant users
http://overlap.rcweb.dcs.shef.ac.uk/
Current Research Projects:
- Overlapping talk in conversation: phonetics, phonology and interaction. Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship 2016-18. Research Associate Dr. Emina Kurtić.
- Meeting the challenge of simultaneous talk for cochlear implant users. Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. 2014-15.With Professor Guy Brown, (Department of Computer Science) and Dr Harriet Crook ( Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) http://overlap.rcweb.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ Research associates: Dr. Amy Beeston, Erica Bradley, Dr. Emina Kurtić.