Gareth Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gareth Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gareth |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5022-4756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Salient Language in Context (SLIC)
This article introduces Salient Language in Context (SLIC), a web application designed for collecting real-time attention data from listeners in response to audio samples. SLIC enables researchers to capture timestamped attention points as listeners engage with spoken language, allowing for an innovative approach to studying real-time perception of speech. The application facilitates the collection of both quantitative and qualitative data, provi…
Field characterisation of rock art paintings using non-invasive reflectance spectroscopy in the search for organic paint binders at Genealogy and Stickman Rockshelters in the Weld Range (Western Austr…
On the potential of phonetic analysis to distinguish between people with epilepsy and non‐epileptic seizures
A body of research has shown that there are linguistic differences in the way people with epilepsy talk about their seizures when compared to those with non‐epileptic seizures. We extend this line of research by presenting the results of a phonetic analysis comparing speech samples from people with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy (7 patients), to those with a confirmed diagnosis of non‐epileptic seizures (8 patients). Variables considered inclu…
Pitch and the Projection of More Talk
This study investigates prototypically “turn-final” pitch features (fall-to-low) at points of possible turn-completion where the same speaker continues. It is shown that points of possible turn-completion accompanied by fall-to-low and followed by same-speaker continuation only rarely engender incoming talk. It is shown that such points are frequently accompanied by nonpitch talk-projecting phonetic features and that the presence of these feature…
Visual Representations of Acoustic Data
Visual representations of acoustic data are becoming more common in Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL) research. This article provides a survey of visual representations of acoustic data in the journal Research on Language and Social Interaction. Shortcomings in their preparation and use are identified and discussed. Comparisons are made with visual representations prepared by expert phoneticians. Suggestions are made a…
Young children's use of laughter as a means of responding to questions
Phonetic Variation and Interactional Contingencies in Simultaneous Responses
An auspicious but unexplored environment for studying phonetic variation in naturalistic interaction is where two or more participants say the same thing at the same time. Working with a core dataset built from the multimodal Augmented Multi-party Interaction corpus, the principles of conversation analysis were followed to analyze the sequential organization of the talk and to explain the phonetic variation observed. Acoustic divergence and equiv…
A Theoretical Walk through the Political Economy of Urban Water Resource Management
The political economy of urban water management demands the interrogation of a highly socialised and engineered space. Many approaches are available to the researcher, yet they are often based on their own claims concerning the nature of society and space, which are contradictory and incommensurate with the next. This makes a synthesis of theory problematic, suggesting an 'either/or' decision to the researcher. This paper provides a critical gene…
Young Children's Use of Laughter After Transgressions
Can very young children deploy laughter interactionally? Using data from video recordings of 52 interactions between six mothers and their young children, this article examines one particular kind of sequence in which interactionally ordered child laughter occurs. In that sequence, the young child commits some kind of potential transgression (e.g., breaking wind, standing on objects on the floor, or playing in a proscribed location). The child's …
Coordination and Interpretation of Vocal and Visible Resources
The empirical focus of this paper is a conversational turn-taking phenomenon in which conjunctions produced immediately after a point of possible syntactic and pragmatic completion are treated by co-participants as points of possible completion and transition relevance. The data for this study are audio-video recordings of 5 unscripted face-to-face interactions involving native speakers of US English, yielding 28 ‘trail-off’ conjunctions. Detaile…
How phonetic features project more talk
Investigations into the management of turn-taking have typically focussed on pitch and other prosodic phenomena, particularly pitch-accents. Here, non-pitch phonetic features and their role in turn-taking are described. Through sustained phonetic and interactional analysis of a naturally occurring, 12-minute long telephone call between two adult speakers of British English, sets of talk-projecting and turn-projecting features are identified. Talk…
Stance and affect in conversation
Linguists, and other analysts of discourse, regularly make appeal to affectual states in determining the meaning of utterances. We examine two kinds of sequence that occur in everyday conversation. The first involves one participant making an explicit lexical formulation of a co-participant's affectual state (e.g., ‘you sound happy’, ‘don't sound so depressed’). The second involves responses to ‘positive informings’ and ‘negative informings’. Thr…
On the design and use of pivots in everyday English conversation
Repetition and the prosody-pragmatics interface
Abrupt-joins as a resource for the production of multi-unit, multi-action turns
Abrupt-joins as a resource for the production of multi-unit, multi-action turns
Repetition and the prosody-pragmatics interface
On the design and use of pivots in everyday English conversation
How phonetic features project more talk
Investigations into the management of turn-taking have typically focussed on pitch and other prosodic phenomena, particularly pitch-accents. Here, non-pitch phonetic features and their role in turn-taking are described. Through sustained phonetic and interactional analysis of a naturally occurring, 12-minute long telephone call between two adult speakers of British English, sets of talk-projecting and turn-projecting features are identified. Talk…
Coordination and Interpretation of Vocal and Visible Resources
The empirical focus of this paper is a conversational turn-taking phenomenon in which conjunctions produced immediately after a point of possible syntactic and pragmatic completion are treated by co-participants as points of possible completion and transition relevance. The data for this study are audio-video recordings of 5 unscripted face-to-face interactions involving native speakers of US English, yielding 28 ‘trail-off’ conjunctions. Detaile…
Visual Representations of Acoustic Data
Visual representations of acoustic data are becoming more common in Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL) research. This article provides a survey of visual representations of acoustic data in the journal Research on Language and Social Interaction. Shortcomings in their preparation and use are identified and discussed. Comparisons are made with visual representations prepared by expert phoneticians. Suggestions are made a…
Young children's use of laughter as a means of responding to questions
Young Children's Use of Laughter After Transgressions
Can very young children deploy laughter interactionally? Using data from video recordings of 52 interactions between six mothers and their young children, this article examines one particular kind of sequence in which interactionally ordered child laughter occurs. In that sequence, the young child commits some kind of potential transgression (e.g., breaking wind, standing on objects on the floor, or playing in a proscribed location). The child's …
Phonetic Variation and Interactional Contingencies in Simultaneous Responses
An auspicious but unexplored environment for studying phonetic variation in naturalistic interaction is where two or more participants say the same thing at the same time. Working with a core dataset built from the multimodal Augmented Multi-party Interaction corpus, the principles of conversation analysis were followed to analyze the sequential organization of the talk and to explain the phonetic variation observed. Acoustic divergence and equiv…
Pitch and the Projection of More Talk
This study investigates prototypically “turn-final” pitch features (fall-to-low) at points of possible turn-completion where the same speaker continues. It is shown that points of possible turn-completion accompanied by fall-to-low and followed by same-speaker continuation only rarely engender incoming talk. It is shown that such points are frequently accompanied by nonpitch talk-projecting phonetic features and that the presence of these feature…
A Theoretical Walk through the Political Economy of Urban Water Resource Management
The political economy of urban water management demands the interrogation of a highly socialised and engineered space. Many approaches are available to the researcher, yet they are often based on their own claims concerning the nature of society and space, which are contradictory and incommensurate with the next. This makes a synthesis of theory problematic, suggesting an 'either/or' decision to the researcher. This paper provides a critical gene…
Abrupt-joins as a resource for the production of multi-unit, multi-action turns
Repetition and the prosody-pragmatics interface
On the design and use of pivots in everyday English conversation
Stance and affect in conversation
Linguists, and other analysts of discourse, regularly make appeal to affectual states in determining the meaning of utterances. We examine two kinds of sequence that occur in everyday conversation. The first involves one participant making an explicit lexical formulation of a co-participant's affectual state (e.g., ‘you sound happy’, ‘don't sound so depressed’). The second involves responses to ‘positive informings’ and ‘negative informings’. Thr…
Coordination and Interpretation of Vocal and Visible Resources
The empirical focus of this paper is a conversational turn-taking phenomenon in which conjunctions produced immediately after a point of possible syntactic and pragmatic completion are treated by co-participants as points of possible completion and transition relevance. The data for this study are audio-video recordings of 5 unscripted face-to-face interactions involving native speakers of US English, yielding 28 ‘trail-off’ conjunctions. Detaile…
How phonetic features project more talk
Investigations into the management of turn-taking have typically focussed on pitch and other prosodic phenomena, particularly pitch-accents. Here, non-pitch phonetic features and their role in turn-taking are described. Through sustained phonetic and interactional analysis of a naturally occurring, 12-minute long telephone call between two adult speakers of British English, sets of talk-projecting and turn-projecting features are identified. Talk…
Young Children's Use of Laughter After Transgressions
Can very young children deploy laughter interactionally? Using data from video recordings of 52 interactions between six mothers and their young children, this article examines one particular kind of sequence in which interactionally ordered child laughter occurs. In that sequence, the young child commits some kind of potential transgression (e.g., breaking wind, standing on objects on the floor, or playing in a proscribed location). The child's …
A Theoretical Walk through the Political Economy of Urban Water Resource Management
The political economy of urban water management demands the interrogation of a highly socialised and engineered space. Many approaches are available to the researcher, yet they are often based on their own claims concerning the nature of society and space, which are contradictory and incommensurate with the next. This makes a synthesis of theory problematic, suggesting an 'either/or' decision to the researcher. This paper provides a critical gene…
Phonetic Variation and Interactional Contingencies in Simultaneous Responses
An auspicious but unexplored environment for studying phonetic variation in naturalistic interaction is where two or more participants say the same thing at the same time. Working with a core dataset built from the multimodal Augmented Multi-party Interaction corpus, the principles of conversation analysis were followed to analyze the sequential organization of the talk and to explain the phonetic variation observed. Acoustic divergence and equiv…
Pitch and the Projection of More Talk
This study investigates prototypically “turn-final” pitch features (fall-to-low) at points of possible turn-completion where the same speaker continues. It is shown that points of possible turn-completion accompanied by fall-to-low and followed by same-speaker continuation only rarely engender incoming talk. It is shown that such points are frequently accompanied by nonpitch talk-projecting phonetic features and that the presence of these feature…
Visual Representations of Acoustic Data
Visual representations of acoustic data are becoming more common in Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL) research. This article provides a survey of visual representations of acoustic data in the journal Research on Language and Social Interaction. Shortcomings in their preparation and use are identified and discussed. Comparisons are made with visual representations prepared by expert phoneticians. Suggestions are made a…
Young children's use of laughter as a means of responding to questions
On the potential of phonetic analysis to distinguish between people with epilepsy and non‐epileptic seizures
A body of research has shown that there are linguistic differences in the way people with epilepsy talk about their seizures when compared to those with non‐epileptic seizures. We extend this line of research by presenting the results of a phonetic analysis comparing speech samples from people with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy (7 patients), to those with a confirmed diagnosis of non‐epileptic seizures (8 patients). Variables considered inclu…
Field characterisation of rock art paintings using non-invasive reflectance spectroscopy in the search for organic paint binders at Genealogy and Stickman Rockshelters in the Weld Range (Western Austr…
Salient Language in Context (SLIC)
This article introduces Salient Language in Context (SLIC), a web application designed for collecting real-time attention data from listeners in response to audio samples. SLIC enables researchers to capture timestamped attention points as listeners engage with spoken language, allowing for an innovative approach to studying real-time perception of speech. The application facilitates the collection of both quantitative and qualitative data, provi…
Psychology (13 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Conversation (7 works) · Communication (6 works) · Communication (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Conversation analysis (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works)