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Dr. Laurence White is a Senior Lecturer in Speech Sciences and Psycholinguistics at Newcastle University, affiliated with the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from the University of Oxford. From September 2024, he will serve as Director of Research in his school. His research focuses on speech perception, production, and prosody, particularly speech timing and its role in language acquisition, second-language learning, and social communication. Current projects include an ESRC-funded study on conversational timing and its communicative goals, led with Dr. Julie Morris and Dr. Robert Lennon.
Key research themes include prosody’s role in turn-taking dynamics, the impact of psychiatric conditions like depression on speech prosody, and the influence of accent familiarity on language processing. White supervises PhD students in areas such as bilingual lexical access, tone perception in second-language acquisition, and developmental language disorder identification in multilingual children. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and contributes to academic organizations like the Experimental Psychology Society and British Association of Academic Phoneticians.
White teaches courses on research methods and neurology/neuropsychology for speech and language therapy programs. His lab work involves behavioral experiments, articulatory analysis, and computational modeling of speech processing. Recent publications address vocal stereotypes and trust attribution, conversational turn timing, and infant language discrimination. He actively recruits PhD candidates for projects exploring prosody in interaction, clinical speech disorders, and cross-linguistic prosodic universals.
