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Ellen Gurman Bard is a Reader in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, and an Associate of the Human Communication Research Centre in the School of Informatics. Her academic career centers on experimental psycholinguistics, investigating the interplay between speech production and perception, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying dialogue.
Her research explores two interconnected themes: the acoustic under-determinacy of running speech and its implications for speech recognition and production, and the role of listener modeling in audience design during dialogue. She examines how factors such as shared knowledge, predictability, and attention influence word intelligibility and articulation patterns, often using controlled dialogue corpora like the Map Task and eye-tracking methodologies in the Joint Eye-Tracking Laboratory.
Recent publications demonstrate her expertise in experimental linguistics, with studies spanning determiner selection in Romance languages, eye-tracking in two-person tasks, auxiliary selection in Italian verbs, and structural influences on French accent placement. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics, cognitive science, and human-computer interaction, frequently involving large-scale collaborative projects.
Scientific Awards: No specific awards, prizes, or fellowships are listed in the available profile information.
Dr. Bard supervises graduate students, with recent MSc advisees including:
- Helen Robson
- Anna Pande
- Eirini Kelmali
and PhD students:
- Margaret Mitchell
- Erin Brown
- Alice Foucart
- Hannele Nicholson
- Anastasia Mangana
- Evangelia Plemmenou
- Max Louwerse
Her research is supported by grants from the NSF (iMAP project), EC Framework VI (JAST project), and EPSRC (MONITOR and ERF projects).
She co-directs the Joint Eye-Tracking Laboratory (JEL), which investigates joint attention and action during collaborative tasks, utilizing eye-tracking technology to understand how humans coordinate in real-time interaction.
