Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
The phonetics and phonology of speech timing
Prosody in speech production,
Prosody in speech perception,
Developmental speech perception
Biography
Since 2009 Professor of Linguistic Phonetics, University of Edinburgh
2005-2009 Reader, Linguistics & English Language, University of Edinburgh
1995-2005 Lecturer, Linguistics & English Language, University of Edinburgh
Teaching
Practical Phonetics: Transcription (Linguistics 2, since 1996)
Connected Speech (Linguistics 2, since 1999)
Ear Training (Linguistics 2, since 2002)
Honours Foundation: Phonetics and Phonology (since 2004)
Advanced Phonetics: Speech Production and Perception (Honours and MSc, 1995-2004; since
2007)
Prosody (Honours & MSc) (2008)
Isolated lectures on Sign Language (Linguistics 1), developmental speech production and
perception (Honours Language Acquisition), Empirical Methods (Linguistics 2)
Administrative Roles
2007-2010 Member, PPLS School Management Committee
2004-2010 Convenor, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences Computing
& Equipment Committee (previously called the Equipment and Travel Committee).
2004-2010 Member, HSS Computing Strategy Committee
Since 1997 Director of Studies, Linguistics & English Language
Since 1995 Director of the Laboratory, Department of Linguistics; Department of Theoretical
and Applied Linguistics; Linguistics & English Language
Since 1995 Member, University of Edinburgh/ Queen Margaret University College Speech
Production Facility Users committee
Qualifications
1993 Ph.D. in Linguistics; Cornell University
1991 MA in Linguistics; Cornell University
1987 AB with high honors in Classics; Program in Linguistics; Princeton University
Websites
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Estimating virtual targets for lingual stop consonants using general Tau theory
Elie, B. & Turk, A., Sept 2023, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Interspeech 2023. Harte, N., Carson-Berndsen, J. & Jones, G. (eds.). Dublin: ISCA, p. 3083-3087 (Interspeech - Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Optimal control of speech with context-dependent articulatory targets
Elie, B., Šimko, J. & Turk, A., Sept 2023, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Interspeech 2023. Harte, N., Carson-Berndsen, J. & Jones, G. (eds.). Dublin: ISCA, p. 4209-4213 (Interspeech - Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Language redundancy effects on F0: A preliminary controlled study
Zhang, C., Lai, C., Napoleao de Souza, R., Turk, A. & Bögel, T., 10 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Skarnitzl, R. & Volín, J. (eds.). Prague: Guarant International, p. 1593-1597 877Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Optimal Control Theory of speech production using probabilistic articulatory-acoustic models
Elie, B., Šimko, J. & Turk, A., 10 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Skarnitzl, R. & Volín, J. (eds.). Prague: Guarant International, p. 942-946 261Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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PlanArt: A modular platform for computational modeling of articulatory planning
Turk, A., Elie, B. & Simko, J., 10 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Skarnitzl, R. & Volín, J. (eds.). Prague: Guarant International, p. 2264-2268 439Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Activities
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Planning the Articulation of Spoken Utterances
Alice Turk (Keynote speaker)
2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Planning the Articulation of Spoken Utterances
Alice Turk (Lecturer)
2023 → …Activity: Other activity types › Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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From phonological representations to surface sound: Why phonology has implications for the architecture of the speech production system
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (Invited speaker) & Alice Turk (Invited speaker)
24 Mar 2022Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Clues from speech timing about phonological structure
Alice Turk (Invited speaker)
23 Feb 2021Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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From phonological representations to surface sound: Why phonology has implications for the architecture of the speech production system
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (Invited speaker) & Alice Turk (Invited speaker)
18 May 2021Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities: Prosodic structure at the interface between language and speech
1/02/22 → 31/01/25
Project: Research
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PPLS Pilot Scheme: ESPF Doubletalk corpus archive - finishing touches and handover
1/06/13 → 31/08/13
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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An online Ultrasound Tongue Imaging resource for Phonetics, Linguistics, and Speech Therapy teaching at Scottish Universities
Stuart-Smith, J., Scobbie, J., Turk, A., Barras, W., Durham, M., Timmins, C. & Beavan, D.
1/07/11 → 1/04/13
Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation
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Datasets
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MAPTASK-AIX
Bard, E. (Creator), Astésano, C. (Creator), Frenck-mestre, C. (Creator), D'Imperio, M. (Creator), Turk, A. (Creator) & Nguyen, N. (Creator), ORTOLANG, 1 Jan 2013
DOI: 11041/sldr000732, http://sldr.org/voir_depot.php?lang=en&id=732&prefix=sldr
Dataset
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Edinburgh Speech Production Facility (ESPF) DoubleTalk
Wrench, A. (Creator), Richmond, K. (Creator), Wiegand, R. (Creator), White, K. (Creator), Turk, A. (Creator), Scobbie, J. M. (Creator), Geng, C. (Creator), Bard, E. G. (Creator), Campbell, B. (Creator), Dubourg, E. (Creator), Hardcastle, W. (Creator), Hoole, P. (Creator), King, S. (Creator), Lickley, R. (Creator), Macmartin, C. (Creator), Nakai, S. (Creator), Pouplier, M. (Creator) & Renals, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 23 Aug 2022
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3508, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447013000375 and one more link, https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/3219 (show fewer)
Dataset