Professor Sarah Hawkins University positionProfessor DepartmentsCentre for Music and Science Home pagehttp://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/people/... (personal home page) Research ThemeInterestsTrained as a psychologist and acoustic phonetician, I have worked mainly on speech perception, including a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship on acoustic-phonetic contributions to a biologically-plausible theory of how speech is understood. From 2011, I extended my research to music cognition, working on intelligibility of sung texts (often in polyphonic and polytextual settings) and on underpinnings of spontaneous interaction in speech and music. My work emphasises on ecologically appropriate experimental tasks. I do not myself do neuro work, but my interests intersect with those who do. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Computational modelling Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsHawkins S (2010), “Phonological features, auditory objects, and illusions. ” J Phonetics 38: 60-89. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2009.02.001 Hawkins S (2003), “Roles and representations of systematic fine phonetic detail in speech understanding” Journal of Phonetics 31:373-405 Hawkins S, Smith R (2001), “Polysp: a polysystemic, phonetically-rich approach to speech understanding” Italian Journal of Linguistics - Rivista di Linguistica 13:99-188 Publicationsin pressHawkins S (in press), “Situational influences on rhythmicity in speech, music, and their interaction.” Communicative Rhythms in Brain and Behaviour. Phil Trans Royal Society B 2013Hawkins S, Cross I, Ogden R (2013), “Communicative interaction in spontaneous music and speech” Language, Music and Interaction. College Publications 285-329 |