Kirk P H Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 2154095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk P H Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk P H |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN K P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9091-6458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Academic writing, scholarly identity, voice and the benefits and challenges of multilingualism
Meaning-making across languages
Sápmi is a geographical area that runs across the Kola Peninsula in Russia to northern Finland, Norway and Sweden. All Sami languages have been going through a rapid language change process and many of the traditional language domains have disappeared during the last decades due to previous national and local language policies. Nevertheless, recent growth of positive attitudes towards Sami languages and culture both within and outside the Sami gr…
Detection of imitated voices, who are reliable earwitnesses
Factors affecting an individual's ability to identify people aurally are of forensic importance. This paper investigates how topic, dialect, gender, age, and hearing status affect detection of an imitated voice. Two imitations of the same person, but on different topics, were used as familiarization voices. One topic was associated with this person, and the other was not. Using discrimination sensitivity (d-prime) it was found that topic had a si…
Development of Fluency and Revision in L1 and L2 Writing in Swedish High School Years Eight and Nine
In this paper we use keystroke logging to examine the development of fluency and revision in high school L1 Swedish and L2 English writing. Each writer wrote one text in English and one in Swedish in each year of the study. Using a combination of statistical and automatic analyses of the keystroke log, we attempted to investigate: i) how the on-line writing process in terms of revising, pausing and fluency in first and second language writing cha…
An investigation of the effectiveness of a Swedish glide + vowel segment for speaker discrimination
Research based on the Australian English diphthong and the British English segment vowel+/r/+vowel has shown that the dynamics of F1, F2, and F3 frequencies can be used for speaker discrimination. This study investigates whether this method can be applied to Swedish. Five male speakers of Swedish were recorded reading a newspaper article that contained seven glide+vowel target tokens. F1, F2, F3, and F4 frequencies were examined at equidistant ti…
The Psycholinguistic Dimension in Second Language Writing
This article discusses the use of computer logging as a means of investigating aspects of the second language (L2) writing process as writers are engaged in producing text at the keyboard. The observation of writing by means of this method provides researchers with detailed information concerning aspects of the planning, formulation, and revision processes. This function is illustrated by reference to a study in Sweden of school‐age learners of E…
Was the knowledge of the second language or the age difference the determining factor
In a legal setting a witness may be asked to recognize a suspect based on a voice sample alone. Previous research has shown that knowledge of a language has an effect on an individual’s ability to identify speakers. Recent research using a set of voice line-ups has demonstrated that there was no unambiguous improvement in the ability to recognize and identify speakers during the four years of BA (hons) Swedish study by British university students…
Stimulated Recall as a Trigger for Increasing Noticing and Language Awareness in the L2 Writing Classroom
Appropriately timed Focus on Form can help in raising the learners' language awareness. In this paper we argue that the learner's own text composition progression can indicate when a learner is ready to notice a particular language form. Stimulated recall induced discussion was used to provoke explicit writer comments relating to noticing and language awareness. Two female Swedish 13-year-olds wrote descriptive texts in English using the computer…
Credit and Grade Transfer within the European Union's Socrates Programme
Through its financial support of SOCRATES the European Union (EU) actively encourages university students to study for part of their undergraduate degree at a higher educational institution in another EU member state. This period of foreign study is then cross-credited to the home institution as if the study had occurred at the home institution. This paper examines the mechanism that has been created to facilitate credit and grade cross-crediting…
The LS Graph
The writing process has long been a subject for investigation. Until recently researchers have been restricted to written protocols for the analysis of writing sessions. These provide vast amounts of information from which it is impossible to create detailed mental representations of the writer's movements around the text, revision activity, or pause behavior. Computer keystroke -logging programs, which record all keystrokes and mouse actions, fa…
Was the knowledge of the second language or the age difference the determining factor
In a legal setting a witness may be asked to recognize a suspect based on a voice sample alone. Previous research has shown that knowledge of a language has an effect on an individual's ability to identify speakers. Recent research using a set of voice line-ups has demonstrated that there was no unambiguous improvement in the ability to recognize and identify speakers during the four years of BA (hons) Swedish study by British university students…
Speaker discrimination in a foreign language
A witness to a crime may be required to identify a speaker based on voice samples from a language which is not their first language. Previous experimental work has shown that knowledge of a language has an effect on an individual's ability to identify speakers. This paper examines whether this ability increases over the course of the British four-year language degree. The results from a series of different open-test voice line-up presentations sh…
Creating Gender Equality at Professorial Level
In the spring of 1995 the Social Democrats, the party of government in Sweden, introduced legislation on gender equality in education as part of its commitment to equal opportunity for both genders in Swedish society. Part of the proposal behind the legislation related to the creation of a more equal division of professional positions between the genders. This paper examines the Social Democrats' policy on the creation of a better division betwee…
Identity, Conflict and Reputation in the University Setting
An academic department in the university sector experiencing rapid growth was plagued by structural inadequacies due to the inappropriateness of the organizational arrangements carried over from former, smaller units, and also by an identity crisis, both at personal and departmental levels, which had resulted in major inter-personal and inter-small-group conflict. This paper outlines the historical background, the micropolitics underlying the pro…
The imitated voice - a problem for voice line-ups
This paper investigates whether imitation can pose a problem for speaker discrimination within the line-up. The voice chosen for the experiment was that of a well-known Swedish politician. A professional imitator provided an imitation of the voice samples presented. Eight other voices were used in the experiments. Four groups heard a series of different open-test line-ups. Two of the groups were asked to identify the Swedish politician: one solel…
The Psycholinguistic Dimension in Second Language Writing
This article discusses the use of computer logging as a means of investigating aspects of the second language (L2) writing process as writers are engaged in producing text at the keyboard. The observation of writing by means of this method provides researchers with detailed information concerning aspects of the planning, formulation, and revision processes. This function is illustrated by reference to a study in Sweden of school‐age learners of E…
Identity, Conflict and Reputation in the University Setting
An academic department in the university sector experiencing rapid growth was plagued by structural inadequacies due to the inappropriateness of the organizational arrangements carried over from former, smaller units, and also by an identity crisis, both at personal and departmental levels, which had resulted in major inter-personal and inter-small-group conflict. This paper outlines the historical background, the micropolitics underlying the pro…
The imitated voice - a problem for voice line-ups
This paper investigates whether imitation can pose a problem for speaker discrimination within the line-up. The voice chosen for the experiment was that of a well-known Swedish politician. A professional imitator provided an imitation of the voice samples presented. Eight other voices were used in the experiments. Four groups heard a series of different open-test line-ups. Two of the groups were asked to identify the Swedish politician: one solel…
Speaker discrimination in a foreign language
A witness to a crime may be required to identify a speaker based on voice samples from a language which is not their first language. Previous experimental work has shown that knowledge of a language has an effect on an individual's ability to identify speakers. This paper examines whether this ability increases over the course of the British four-year language degree. The results from a series of different open-test voice line-up presentations sh…
Creating Gender Equality at Professorial Level
In the spring of 1995 the Social Democrats, the party of government in Sweden, introduced legislation on gender equality in education as part of its commitment to equal opportunity for both genders in Swedish society. Part of the proposal behind the legislation related to the creation of a more equal division of professional positions between the genders. This paper examines the Social Democrats' policy on the creation of a better division betwee…
Identity, Conflict and Reputation in the University Setting
An academic department in the university sector experiencing rapid growth was plagued by structural inadequacies due to the inappropriateness of the organizational arrangements carried over from former, smaller units, and also by an identity crisis, both at personal and departmental levels, which had resulted in major inter-personal and inter-small-group conflict. This paper outlines the historical background, the micropolitics underlying the pro…
Was the knowledge of the second language or the age difference the determining factor
In a legal setting a witness may be asked to recognize a suspect based on a voice sample alone. Previous research has shown that knowledge of a language has an effect on an individual's ability to identify speakers. Recent research using a set of voice line-ups has demonstrated that there was no unambiguous improvement in the ability to recognize and identify speakers during the four years of BA (hons) Swedish study by British university students…
Credit and Grade Transfer within the European Union's Socrates Programme
Through its financial support of SOCRATES the European Union (EU) actively encourages university students to study for part of their undergraduate degree at a higher educational institution in another EU member state. This period of foreign study is then cross-credited to the home institution as if the study had occurred at the home institution. This paper examines the mechanism that has been created to facilitate credit and grade cross-crediting…
The LS Graph
The writing process has long been a subject for investigation. Until recently researchers have been restricted to written protocols for the analysis of writing sessions. These provide vast amounts of information from which it is impossible to create detailed mental representations of the writer's movements around the text, revision activity, or pause behavior. Computer keystroke -logging programs, which record all keystrokes and mouse actions, fa…
Stimulated Recall as a Trigger for Increasing Noticing and Language Awareness in the L2 Writing Classroom
Appropriately timed Focus on Form can help in raising the learners' language awareness. In this paper we argue that the learner's own text composition progression can indicate when a learner is ready to notice a particular language form. Stimulated recall induced discussion was used to provoke explicit writer comments relating to noticing and language awareness. Two female Swedish 13-year-olds wrote descriptive texts in English using the computer…
Was the knowledge of the second language or the age difference the determining factor
In a legal setting a witness may be asked to recognize a suspect based on a voice sample alone. Previous research has shown that knowledge of a language has an effect on an individual’s ability to identify speakers. Recent research using a set of voice line-ups has demonstrated that there was no unambiguous improvement in the ability to recognize and identify speakers during the four years of BA (hons) Swedish study by British university students…
Development of Fluency and Revision in L1 and L2 Writing in Swedish High School Years Eight and Nine
In this paper we use keystroke logging to examine the development of fluency and revision in high school L1 Swedish and L2 English writing. Each writer wrote one text in English and one in Swedish in each year of the study. Using a combination of statistical and automatic analyses of the keystroke log, we attempted to investigate: i) how the on-line writing process in terms of revising, pausing and fluency in first and second language writing cha…
An investigation of the effectiveness of a Swedish glide + vowel segment for speaker discrimination
Research based on the Australian English diphthong and the British English segment vowel+/r/+vowel has shown that the dynamics of F1, F2, and F3 frequencies can be used for speaker discrimination. This study investigates whether this method can be applied to Swedish. Five male speakers of Swedish were recorded reading a newspaper article that contained seven glide+vowel target tokens. F1, F2, F3, and F4 frequencies were examined at equidistant ti…
The Psycholinguistic Dimension in Second Language Writing
This article discusses the use of computer logging as a means of investigating aspects of the second language (L2) writing process as writers are engaged in producing text at the keyboard. The observation of writing by means of this method provides researchers with detailed information concerning aspects of the planning, formulation, and revision processes. This function is illustrated by reference to a study in Sweden of school‐age learners of E…
Detection of imitated voices, who are reliable earwitnesses
Factors affecting an individual's ability to identify people aurally are of forensic importance. This paper investigates how topic, dialect, gender, age, and hearing status affect detection of an imitated voice. Two imitations of the same person, but on different topics, were used as familiarization voices. One topic was associated with this person, and the other was not. Using discrimination sensitivity (d-prime) it was found that topic had a si…
Meaning-making across languages
Sápmi is a geographical area that runs across the Kola Peninsula in Russia to northern Finland, Norway and Sweden. All Sami languages have been going through a rapid language change process and many of the traditional language domains have disappeared during the last decades due to previous national and local language policies. Nevertheless, recent growth of positive attitudes towards Sami languages and culture both within and outside the Sami gr…
Academic writing, scholarly identity, voice and the benefits and challenges of multilingualism
Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Writing and Handwriting Education (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works)