Research
Most of my published research has been in the area of phonetics. My principal object of study has been speech rhythm and timing. Here are some notes on two experimental methods I have developed: Speech Cycling and Synchronous Speech.
I believe rhythm is best understood as an affordance that allows the entrainment of the motion of a body to a signal. An account of this, published in Phonetica (2009), is here.
More recently, I have become interested in enactive and ecological approaches to understanding experience. My views on this are sketched in two introductory chapters of a monograph in preparation. Chapter 1, Chapter 2. Here are two short papers in this space: one presented at the meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in June 2009, the other presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Amsterdam in July 2009. I presented the gist of my view in a pub, informally (25 mins) and there was a question and answer session afterwards.
I ran a funded research project in the area of speaker identification. It is called CHAracterizing INdividual Speakers, or simply CHAINS.
My students have worked on a variety of projects including the visual perception of biological motion, the role of optimization in sequencing articulator movements, the nature of the coupling between speech and manual gesture, the synthesis of ecologically inspired sounds. Current research projects include language evolution, the phenomenology of singing, and blinking.