Dr Gareth Walker

Resources

• a suite of resources for Learning the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association

• my GitHub page - go there to access my Praat scripts, including scripts for preparing visual representations, and my LaTeX package for setting conversation analysis transcriptions (convtran)

Selected presentations

Hielke Vriesendorp, Gareth Walker and Chris Montgomery, 2024

Real‑time accent recognition of five Northern Englishes. What features do listeners attend to? (PDF, 4.1MB). Poster presented at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Cardiff. Abstract (PDF).

Gareth Walker, 2017

Visual representations of acoustic data in CA research: A survey and suggestions (PDF, 3.5MB). Paper presented at 11th CA Day: Structure and Action in Talk, Loughborough University.
Audio recording of the talk

Emina Kurtic and Gareth Walker, 2016

The phonetics of negative responses (PNG, 2.9MB). Poster presented at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Lancaster.

Gareth Walker, 2016

Phonetic details and the projection of more talk (PNG, 3.4MB). Poster presented at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Lancaster.

John Local and Gareth Walker, 2010

Speaking in time and sequence: Phonetics and the management of talk-in-interaction (PNG, 1.6MB). Poster presented at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, London.
Audio files (ZIP, 1.5MB)

Gareth Walker, 2003

'Doing a rushthrough' – A phonetic resource for holding the turn in everyday conversation (PDF, 130KB). Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1847–1850.

PhD thesis

Gareth Walker, 2004

The phonetic design of turn endings, beginnings, and continuations in conversation (PDF, 2MB). PhD thesis, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York.