Marisa Flecha-Garcia

Research Assistant

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Dugald Stewart Building

City
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Biography

Qualifications

MSc in Transformative Learning and Teaching, University of Edinburgh, 2019

PhD in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, 2006

MSc in Cognitive Science and Natural language, University of Edinburgh, 1998

Current research interests

I am currently working as Phonetics Research Assistant in Prof Alice Turk's project 'PlanArt: Planning the Articulation of Spoken Utterances'. My work involves performing measurement and analysis of acoustic and articulatory speech data. Apart from Phonetics, I have a range or research interests in Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Science, with a particular focus on Multimodal Communication.

Past research interests

In my first MSc, I developed and conducted an experiment to study a possible McGurk effect based on perceived ethnicity. For my PhD, I investigated eyebrow raises in face-to-face dialogue (Flecha-Garcia, M. L. (2010). Eyebrow raises in dialogue and their relation to discourse structure, utterance function and pitch accents in English. Speech Communication, 52(6), 542-554). Working as a postdoc in University of Texas at El Paso, under David Novick and Nigel Ward, I carried out research into cultural differences in the production and interpretation of verbal and non-verbal dialogue behaviour.
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