Faculty: Felicia Roberts
Associate Professor
phone: 765-494-3323
email: froberts@purdue.edu
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Education
M.A. & Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison (1996) B.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison (1980)
Research
Dr. Roberts studies the verbal and non-verbal practices that construct everyday and institutional life. Her recent research has focused on silence in conversation among speakers of Italian, Japanese, and English. She has also been collaborating with Steve Wilson on projects concerning verbal aggression. Her ongoing research and teaching interests include language development, parent-child interaction, language attitudes, perception of non-standard speakers, language variation and change.
Representative Publications
- Wilson, S., Roberts, F., Rack, J., & Delaney, J. (2008). Mothers’ trait verbal aggressiveness as a predictor of maternal and child behavior during play-time interactions. Human Communication Research, 34, 392-422..
- Roberts, F. (2008). Transcribing and Transcription. In W. Donsbach (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Communication, Vol. XI., pp. 5161-5165. Oxford, UK & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Roberts, F., Francis, A.L., Morgan, M. (2006). The interaction of inter-turn silence with prosodic cues in listener perceptions of "trouble" in conversation. Speech Communication, 48, 1079-1093.
- Balog, H. L. & Roberts, F. (2004). Perception of utterance relatedness during the first-word period. Journal of Child Language, 31, 837-854
- Roberts, F. (2004). Speaking to and for animals in a veterinary clinic: A practice for managing interpersonal interactions" Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37, 421-446.