Speech Research Lab

The team's main interests are speech production and perception and their relationship.

Our lab’s main interests are speech production and perception and their relationship. We have a particular interest in stuttering as a developmental speech disorder and its relationship to fluent development of speech and language.

The speech team has are particular interest in:

• screening for speech difficulties
• stuttering as a developmental speech disorder and its relationship to fluent development of speech and language
• speech processing of Mandarin tones.

A variety of methodologies are used to study these processes including

• analyses of naturally-produced spontaneous speech
• surveys
• experimental studies
• neuroimaging studies
• modelling studies.

Principal investigator

Peter Howell