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Professor Roger Wales

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  • Professor Roger Wales, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Qualifications: B.Sc, PhD.
  • Phone: +61-3-9479 2844
  • Fax: +61-3-9479 1478
  • Email: r.wales@latrobe.edu.au

 

Previously

Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, Sussex, Melbourne

Visiting positions

Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Arizona, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Publications in the last five years

Cooper, N., Cutler, A., & Wales, R. (2003).
Constraints on lexical access in English: evidence from native and non-native listeners. Language and Speech, 45, 3, 207-228

Fletcher, J., Stirling, L., Mushin, I., & Wales, R (2003).
Intonational rises dialog acts in the Australian English Map Task Language and Speech, 45, 3, 229- 255

Filipi, A., & Wales, R., (in press).
Differential uses of okay, right and alright and their functioning in signalling perspective shift or maintenance in a map task. Semiotica

Filipi, A., & Wales R. (in press).
Perspective taking and perspective shifting as socially situated and collaborative actions. Journal of Pragmatics

Mushin, I., Stirling, L., Fletcher, J., & Wales, R. (2003).
Discourse structure, prosody and grounding in task-oriented dialogue. Discourse Processes, 35, 1, 1-33

Wilson, S. J., Pressing, J. L., & Wales, R. J. (2002).
Modelling rhythmic function in a musician post-stroke. Neuropsychologia, 40(8), 1494-1505.

Castiello, U., Paine, M., & Wales, R. (2002).
Perceiving an entire object and grasping only half of it. Neuropsychologia, 40(2), 145-151.

Blamey, P. J., Paatsch, L. E., Bow, C. P., Sarant, J. Z., & Wales, R. J. (2002).
A critical level of hearing for speech perception in children. Acoustics Research Letters Online(3), 18-23.

Wales, R. J., Sanson, A., & Pedlow, R. (2001).
Children's Production and Comprehension of Politeness in Requests: Relationships to Behavioral Adjustment in Middle Childhood. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 20(1-2), 23-60

Stirling, L., Fletcher, J., Mushin, I., & Wales, R. (2001).
Representational issues in annotation: Using the Australian map task corpus to relate prosody and discourse structure. (Special Issue on Speech Annotation and Corpus Tools) Speech Communication, 33(1-2), 113-134.

Pedlow, R., Wales, R., & Sanson, A. (2001).
Children's production and comprehension of politeness in requests: Relationships to behavioral adjustment in middle childhood. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 20(1-2), 23-60.

Filipi, A., & Wales, R. (2001).
Perspective-taking in route-giving talk as collaborative action. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53(3), 179-179. (Full length paper submitted to Pragmatics).

Edwards, J., Pattison, P. E., Jackson, H. J., & Wales, R. J. (2001).
Facial affect and affective prosody recognition in first- episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 48(2-3), 235-253

Blamey, P. J., Sarant, J. Z., Paatsch, L. E., Barry, J. G., Bow, C. P., Wales, R. J., Wright, M., Psarros, C., Rattigan, K., & Tooher, R. (2001).
Relationships among speech perception, production, language, hearing loss, and age in children with impaired hearing. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 44(2), 264-285.

Blamey, P., Sarant, J., Paatsch, L., Bow, C., & Wales, R. (2001).
A critical level of hearing for speech perception in children. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53(3), 177-177.

Blamey, P., Barry, J., Bow, C., Sarant, J., Paatsch, L., & Wales, R. (2001).
The development of speech production following cochlear implantation. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 15(5), 363-382

Davis, C., van Gelder, T., & Wales, R. J. (Eds.). (2000).
Cognitive Science in Australia: Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Australasian Cognitive Science Conference. Adelaide: Causal Productions.

Stirling, L., Mushin, I., Fletcher, J., & Wales, R. (2000).
The Nature of Common Ground Units: An Empirical Analysis Using Map Task Dialogues. Gothenberg Papers in Computational Linguistics(5), 159-165.

Mushin, I., Stirling, L., Fletcher, J., & Wales, R. J. (2000).
Identifying prosodic indicators of dialogue structure: some methodological and theoretical considerations. Proceedings of 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Wilson, S. J., Pressing, J., Wales, R. J., & Pattison, P. (1999).
Cognitive models of music psychology and the lateralisation of musical function within the brain. Australian Journal of Psychology, 51(3), 125-139.

Wales, R. J., & Kremer, P. (1999).
Speech Intelligibility and Noise: The Auditory Interface. In J. Wiles & T. Dartnall (Eds.), Perspectives on Cognitive Science: Theories, Experiments, and Foundations (Vol. 2). Westport, Conn: Ablex.

Edwards, J., Jackson, H., Pattison, P., & Wales, R. (1999).
Emotion recognition in first-episode schizophrenia: Facial expression, affective prosody and emotion names. Schizophrenia Research, 36(1-3), 129-129.

Wales, R. J., Reid, K., & Reeve, R. (1999).
Evaluating ways in which language interacts with cognition in the developing child in C. Floccia (Ed.). Proceedings of the 1st Bisontine Conference for Conceptual and Linguistic Development in the Child Aged from 1 to 6 Years, Besançon, France.

Wales, R. J. (1998).
The view from elsewhere: does prosody help that much? The Clarion, pp. 40-36.

Blamey, P., Sarant, J., Serry, T., Wales, R., James, C., Barry, J., Clark, G., Wright, M., Tooher, R., Psarros, C., Godwin, G., Rennie, M., & Meskin, T. (1998).
Speech Perception and Spoken Language in Children with Impaired Hearing. Proceedings of Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney.

Bavin, E. L., Wales, R. J., & Kelly, H. (1998).
Preferential looking: testing structural knowledge. Advances in Infancy Research.(12), 319-335

Research Grants in the past five years

ARC (2001-2003) Cognitive and Linguistic Processes in Children at Risk for Developmental Dyslexia (with Prof Brian Byrne, Prof Stephen Crain, Rosalind Thorton and Bruce Stephenson)

ARC (1999- 2001) Prosody and the information structure of Australian English (with Dr Lesley Stirling and Dr Janet Fletcher)

ARC Small Grant (1998) The cognitive context of children's language acquisition.

NM&MRC (1997-2001) Binaural hearing and spoken language development in cochlear implant and hearing aid users (with Dr Peter Blamey, Dr Chris James and Prof Graeme Clark)

Recent external appointments include

  • President, Australian Cognitive Science Society, 1999-2000
  • Conference Chair, Speech Science and Technology Conference, Melbourne, 2002
  • ARC Expert Advisory Committee, Social Behavioural and Economic Sciences Panel, 2001-3
  • Advisory Board, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS), 2003-

 


 

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