Ambika Kirkland

I'm a doctoral student in Speech and Music Communication with a background that spans several disciplines: cognitive science, second language acquisition, computational linguistics and phonetics. My current research uses speech synthesis to investigate how features of spontaneous speech (such as filled and silent pauses, repetitions and false starts) interact with prosody, context, speaker and listener characteristics to impact judgments about speakers and speaker attitudes. My work also explores how speech perception is mediated by metacognitive processes, and exemines neural correlates of speech perception with EEG. 

I am also involved in data collection and curation and developing research methods for speech perception experiments at Språkbanken Tal.