Dr Gareth Walker
School of English
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics


+44 114 222 0238
Full contact details
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
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- Profile
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I did my studying at the University of York with a BA in English Literature and Linguistics (2000), followed by an MA in Linguistics by Research (2001), and a PhD in Linguistics (2004). I joined the School of English as Lecturer in Linguistics in 2006, becoming Senior Lecturer in 2013.
- Research interests
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All of my research to date has been directed at trying to reach a more complete understanding of how we use linguistic resources when we engage in everyday conversation. My research combines Conversation Analysis (CA) with techniques of auditory and acoustic phonetics.
I have published work on topics including turn-taking (including turn-holding and turn-continuation, turn-projection, talk-projection), laughter, interactions involving young children, simultaneous talk, communication impairment, the coordination of vocal and visible resources (gaze, posture, gesture), stance and effect, repetition, the speech of people with epilepsy and non-epileptic seizures, and people with mild cognitive impairment.
I am currently involved in research into the speech of people with dementia.
- Publications
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
- Research group
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I am interested in supervising PhD students conducting research into everyday talk, especially if that work involves (or might involve) phonetics and/or conversation analysis. I am especially interested in supervising PhD students in any of the areas in which I have published research: see "Publications".
- Teaching activities
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My main teaching responsibilities are in phonetics and conversation analysis. This means convening and teaching the following courses:
ELL12 Sounds of English
ELL207 Phonetics
ELL354 Advanced Phonetics
EGH304 Conversation Analysis
I contribute to courses in sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics and research methods at undergraduate and MA level, and supervise undergraduate and MA dissertations.
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