Professor Denis Burnham

Professor Denis Burnham

DIRECTOR, THE MARCS INSTITUTE,
The MARCS Institute

PROFESSOR,
The MARCS Institute

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD Monash University
  • BA University of New England

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • The MARCS Institute
  • The MARCS Institute

Contact

Email:Denis.Burnham@uws.edu.au
Extension:6681
Mobile:0425206704
Location:1.G.133
Bankstown
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Publications

Books

  • Dale, R., Burnham, D. and Stevens, C. (2011), 'Human Communication Science: A Compendium', : The ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science 9781741383638.
  • Stevens, C., Burnham, D., Mcpherson, G., Schubert, E. and Renwick, J. (2002), 'Proceedings of the 7th Interntaional Conference on Music Perception & Cognition', : Causal Productions 1876346396.

Chapters in Books

  • Burnham, D. and Sekiyama, K. (2012), 'Investigating auditory-visual speech perception development', Audiovisual Speech Processing, Cambridge University Press 978117006829.
  • Burnham, D. and Sekiyama, K. (2012), 'Investigating auditory-visual speech perception development', Audiovisual Speech Processing, Cambridge University Press 9781107006829.
  • Sekiyama, K. and Burnham, D. (2011), 'Impact of Language on Development of Auditory-Visual Speech Perception', Human Communication Sciences: A Compendium, ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science 9781741383638.
  • Burnham, D. and Mattock, K. (2010), 'Auditory Development', The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Wiley-Blackwell 9781444332735.
  • Burnham, D. and Mattock, K. (2007), 'The perception of tones and phones', Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege, John Benjamins 9027219737.
  • Burnham, D., Kitamura, C. and Mattock, K. (2007), 'Psycholinguistics meets Psycholinguistics: different emphases, sustainable collaborations', Unfolding linguistics in honour of Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin, Chulalongkorn University Press 9789749897690.
  • Burnham, D., Tyler, M. and Horlyck, S. (2002), 'Period of Speech Perception Development and their Vestiges in Adulthood', An Integrated View of Language Development: Papers in Honour of Henning Wode, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 3884764888.

Journal Articles

  • Burnham, D. (2013), 'The relationship between auditory?visual speech perception and language-specific speech perception at the onset of reading instruction in English-speaking children', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 19.
  • Smith, D. and Burnham, D. (2012), 'Facilitation of Mandarin tone perception by visual speech in clear and degraded audio: Implications for Cochlear implants', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 10.
  • Horlyck, S., Reid, A. and Burnham, D. (2012), 'The relationship between learning to read and language-specific speech perception: Maturation versus experience', Scientific Studies of Reading, 22.
  • Mcbride-Chang, C., Chen, H., Kasisopa, B., Burnham, D., Reilly, R., Reilly, R. and Leppanen, P. (2012), 'What and where is the word?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2.
  • Malloch, S., Shoemark, H., Crncec, R., Newnham, C., Paul, C., Prior, M., Coward, S. and Burnham, D. (2012), 'Music Therapy with hospitalized infants - The art and science of communicative musicality', Infant Mental Health Journal, 14.
  • Malloch, S., Shoemark, H., Crncec, R., Newnham, C., Paul, C., Prior, M., Coward, S. and Burnham, D. (2012), 'Music therapy with hospitalized infants-the art and science of communicative musicality', Infant Mental Health Journal, 14.
  • Mcbride-Chang, C., Chen, H., Kasisopa, B., Burnham, D., Burnham, D., Reilly, R. and Leppanen, P. (2012), 'What and where is the word?', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2.
  • Malloch, S., Shoemark, H., Crncec, R., Newnham, C., Paul, C., Prior, M., Coward, S. and Burnham, D. (2012), 'Music therapy with hospitalized infants - the art and science of communicative musicality', Infant Mental Health Journal, 14.
  • Horlyck, S., Reid, A. and Burnham, D. (2012), 'The relationship between learning to read and language-specific speech perception : maturation versus experience', Scientific Studies of Reading, 22.
  • Smith, D. and Burnham, D. (2012), 'Faciliation of Mandarin tone perception by visual speech in clear and degraded audio : implications for cochlear implants', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 10.
  • Burnham, D. (2012), 'Music therapy with hospitalized infants-the art and science of communicative musicality', Infant Mental Health Journal, 14.
  • Burnham, D., Kim, J., Davis, C., Ciocca, V., Schoknecht, C., Kasisopa, B. and Luksaneeyanawin, S. (2011), 'Are tones phones?', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 20.
  • Tillmann, B., Burnham, D., Nguyen, S., Grimault, N., Gosselin, N. and Peretz, I. (2011), 'Congenital amusia (or tone-deafness) interferes with pitch processing in tone languages', Frontiers in Psychology, 15.
  • Burnham, D., Reid, A., Jones, C., Leigh, G., Noble, W., Brown, H., Varley, A., Green, D., Goldfried, J. and Tam, H. (2010), 'Who Uses Television Captions, When, and Why? Analyses Based on the Australian Television Caption Users Survey', Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing, 10.
  • Horley, K., Reid, A. and Burnham, D. (2010), 'Emotional Prosody Perception and Production in Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 15.
  • Tyler, M., Jones, C., Grebennikov, L., Leigh, G., Noble, W. and Burnham, D. (2009), 'Effect of Caption Rate on the Comprehension of Educational Television Programmes by Deaf School Students', Deafness and Education International, 11.
  • Burnham, D., Leigh, G., Noble, W., Jones, C., Tyler, M., Grebennikov, L. and Varley, A. (2008), 'Parameters in Television Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults: Effects of Caption Rate Versus Text Reduction on Comprehension', Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 14.
  • Dodd, B., Mcintosh, B., Erdener, D. and Burnham, D. (2008), 'Perception of the auditory-visual illusion in speech perception by children with phonological disorders', Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 14.
  • Mattock, K., Molnar, M., Polka, L. and Burnham, D. (2008), 'The developmental course of lexical tone perception in the first year of life', Cognition, 15.
  • Sekiyama, K. and Burnham, D. (2008), 'Impact of language on development of auditory-visual speech perception', Developmental Science, 15.
  • Burnham, D., Jones, C., Grebennikov, L. and Tyler, M. (2008), 'Parameters in television captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing adults : effects of caption rate versus text reduction on comprehension', Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 14.
  • Shea, T., Sergejew, A., Burnham, D., Jones, C., Rossell, S., Copolov, D. and Egan, G. (2007), 'Emotional prosodic processing in auditory hallucinations', Schizophrenia Research, 7.
  • Uther, M., Knoll, M. and Burnham, D. (2007), 'Do you speak E-NG-L-I-SH? A comparison of foreigner- and infant-directed speech', Speech Communication, 6.
  • Burnham, D. and Jones, C. (2007), 'Emotional prosodic processing in auditory hallucinations', Schizophrenia Research, 7.
  • Marschark, M., Leigh, G., Sapere, P., Burnham, D., Convertino, C., Stinson, M., Knoors, H. and + 2 Externals, . (2006), 'Benefits of Sign Language Interpreting and Text Alternatives for Deaf Students' Classroom Learning', Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 17.
  • Panneton, R., Kitamura, C., Mattock, K. and Burnham, D. (2006), 'Slow Speech Enhances Younger But not older infants' perception of Vocal Emotion', Research in Human Development, 13.
  • Tyler, M. and Burnham, D. (2006), 'Orthographic influences on phoneme deletion response times', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 22.
  • Mattock, K. and Burnham, D. (2006), 'Chinese and English Infants' Tone Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization', Infancy, 25.
  • Stevens, C., Lees, N., Vonwiller, J. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'On-line experimental methods to evaluate text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis: effects of voice gender and signal quality on intelligibility, naturalness and preference', Computer Speech & Language, 18.
  • Keller, P. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Musical Meter in Attention to Multipart Rhythm', Music Perception, 33.
  • Erdener, D. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'The Role of Audiovisual Speech and Orthographic Information in Nonnative Speech Production', Language Learning, 38.
  • Schembri, A., Jones, C. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Comparing Action Gestures and Classifier Verbs of Motion: Evidence from Australian Sign Language, Taiwan Sign Language, and Nonsigners' Gestures Without Speech', The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 19.
  • Tyler, M., Tyler, L. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'The delayed trigger voice key: An improved analogue voice key for psycholinguistic research', Behavior Research Methods, 9.
  • Kim, J., Davis, C., Burnham, D. and Lukasaneeyanawin, S. (2004), 'The effect of script on poor readers' sensitivity to dynamic visual stimuli', Brain and Language, 10.
  • Burnham, D. and Dodd, B. (2004), 'Auditory-visual speech integration by prelinguistic infants: perception of an emergent consonant in the McGurk effect', Developmental Psychobiology, 17.
  • Burnham, D. (2003), 'Language specific speech perception and the onset of reading', Reading and Writing, 37.
  • Kitamura, C. and Burnham, D. (2003), 'Pitch and communicative intent in mother's speech: Adjustments for age and sex in the first year.', Infancy, 26.
  • Woods, S., Shearsby, J., Onslow, M. and Burnham, D. (2002), 'Psychological impact of the Lidcombe Program of early stuttering intervention', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 10.
  • Sudasna, P., Luksaneeyanawin, S. and Burnham, D. (2002), 'The influence of second language experience in the pattern of language processing of the bilingual lexicon', Manusya: Journal of Humanities, 17.
  • Kitamura, C., Thanavishuth, C., Burnham, D. and Luksaneeyanawin, S. (2002), 'Universality of specificity in infant-directed speech: Pitch modifications as a function of infant age and sex in a tonal and non-tonal language.', Infant Behaviour and Development, 21.
  • Burnham, D., Kitamura, C. and Vollmer-Conna, U. (2002), 'What's new, pussycat? On talking to babies and animals.', Science, 1.
  • Beach, F., Burnham, D. and Kitamura, C. (2001), 'Bilingualisam and the relationship between perception and production: Greek-English', International Journal of Bilingualism, 15.

Conference Papers

  • Burnham, D., Wagner, M., Kinoshita, Y., Gocke, R., Arciuli, J., Onslow, M., Lewis, T., Butcher, A., Hajek, J., Estival, D., Fazio, S., Viethen, J., Cox, F., Dale, R., Cassidy, S., Epps, J. and Togneri, R. (2011), 'Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: Large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable Black Box', Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy.
  • Tong, X., Mcbride-Change, C. and Burnham, D. (2011), 'The Psycholinguistic Representation of Lexical Tones: The Effect of Phonetic Context on Tone Processing in Cantonese-Speaking Children', Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference, Hong Kong.
  • Burnham, D., Attina, V., Xu, N. and Kasisopa, B. (2011), 'Towards an Optimal Tone Space', Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference, Hong Kong.
  • Burnham, D., Attina, V. and Kasisopa, B. (2011), 'Auditory-Visual Discrimination and Identification of Lexical Tone Within and Across Tone Languages', International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Volterra, Italy.
  • Herath, D., Burnham, D., Chapman, T., Tomkins, A., Elliott, L., David, M. and Cooper, A. (2011), 'A study on wearable robotics - Comfort is in the context', IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Thailand.
  • Xu, N. and Burnham, D. (2010), 'Tone Hyperarticulation and Intonation in Cantonese Infant Directed Speech', Speech Prosody 2010 Conference, Chicago, USA.
  • Erdener, D., Sekiyama, K. and Burnham, D. (2010), 'The Development of Auditory-Visual Speech Perception across Languages and Age', 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, Sydney, Australia.
  • Smith, D., Attina, V., So, C. and Burnham, D. (2010), 'The visual perception of lexical tone', 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, Sydney, Australia.
  • Attina, V., Gibert, G., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. and Burnham, D. (2010), 'Production of Mandarin lexical tones: Auditory and visual components', 9th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Japan.
  • Burnham, D., Joeffry, S. and Rice, L. (2010), '"D-o-e-s-N-o-t-C-o-m-p-u-t-e": Vowel Hyperarticulartion in Speech to an Auditory-Visual Avatar', 9th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Japan.
  • Burnham, D., Joeffry, S. and Rice, L. (2010), 'Computer- and Human-Directed Speech Before and After Correction', 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Wagner, M., Kinoshita, Y., Kemp, N., Ishihara, S., Ingram, J., Hajek, J., Grayden, D., Gocke, R., Fletcher, J., Estival, D., Epps, J., Tran, D., Dale, R., Cutler, A., Cox, F., Chetty, G., Cassidy, S., Butcher, A., Burnham, D., Bird, S., Best, C., Bennamoun, M., Togneri, R., Arciuli, J., Ambikairajah, E., Rose, P., Powers, D., Onslow, M., Loakes, D., Lewis, T. and Kuratate, T. (2010), 'The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC)', 13th International Australasian Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Burnham, D., Cox, F., Cutler, A., Dale, R., Epps, J., Fletcher, J., Goecke, R., Grayden, D., Hajek, J., Ingram, J., Ishihara, S., Ambikairajah, E., Kemp, N., Kinoshita, Y., Kuratate, T., Lewis, T., Loakes, D., Onslow, M., Powers, D., Rose, P., Togneri, R., Tran, D., Arciuli, J., Wagner, M., Bennamoun, M., Best, C., Bird, S., Butcher, A., Cassidy, S. and Chetty, G. (2009), 'A Blueprint for a Comprehensive Australian English Auditory-Visual Speech Corpus', HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages, Sydney.
  • Kuratate, T., Ayers, K., Kim, J., Riley, M. and Burnham, D. (2009), 'Are Virtual Humans Uncanny?: Varying speech, appearance and motion to better understand the acceptability of synthetic humans', 2009 Conference on Audio Visual Speech Processing, Norwich, UK.
  • Shochi, T., Sekiyama, K., Lees, N., Boyce, M., Goecke, R. and Burnham, D. (2009), 'Auditory-Visual Infant Directed Speech in Japanese and English', 2009 AVSP Conference, Norwich, UK.
  • Burnham, D., Abrahamyan, A., Cavedon, L., Davis, C., Hodgins, A. and Kim, J. (2008), 'From Talking to Thinking Heads: 2008', The ISCA Research and Tutorial Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2008), Moreton Island, Australia.
  • Smith, D. and Burnham, D. (2008), 'Multimodal Perception of Mandarin Tone for Cochlear Implant Users', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Xu, N. and Burnham, D. (2008), 'Tone Hyperarticulation in Cantonese Infant-Directed Speech', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Kuratate, T., Ayers, K., Kim, J. and Burnham, D. (2008), 'Exploring the Uncanny Valley Effect with Talking Heads', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Beach, E., Kitamura, C., Dillon, H., Ching, T. and Burnham, D. (2008), 'The effect of spectral tilt on infants' discrimination of fricatives', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
  • Davis, C., Kim, J., Kuratate, T. and Burnham, D. (2007), 'Making a thinking-talking head', Auditory-visual Speech Processing 2007, Hilvarenbeek. The Netherlands..
  • Xu, N., Burnham, D. and Kitamura, C. (2007), 'Vowels and Tones in Infant Directed Speech: Hyperarticulation for Both, but different Developmental Patterns', Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Burnham, D., Reynolds, J., Vignali, G., Bollwerk, S. and Jones, C. (2007), 'Rigid vs Non-Rigid Face and head Motion in Phone and Tone Perception', Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Schwarz, I., Burnham, D. and Bowey, J. (2006), 'Phoneme Sensitivity and vocabulary size in 21/2 to 3 year olds', 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology, University of Auckland.
  • Schwarz, I. and Burnham, D. (2006), 'New Measures to Chart Toddlers' Speech Perception and Language Development: A Test of the Lexical Restructuring Hypothesis', 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2006 -ICSLP), Pittsburgh, USA.
  • Erdener, D., Burnham, D., Mcintosh, B. and Dodd, B. (2006), 'The Effect of Accurate Speech Production Experience on the Development of Auditory-Visual Speech Perception in Children', 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil.
  • Burnham, D., Reynolds, J., Haszard Morris, R., Vignali, G., Bollwerk, S., Tam, H. and + 5 Externals, . (2006), 'The Perception and Production of Phones and Tones: The Role of Rigid and Non-Rigid Face and Head Motion', 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil.
  • Burnham, D., Tsukada, K., Jones, C., Rungrojsuwan, S., Krachaikiat, N. and Luksaneeyanawin, S. (2006), 'The Development of Lexical Tone Production in Thai Children, 18 months to 6 years: Relationships with Language Milestones', 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil.
  • Erdener, D. and Burnham, D. (2006), 'Auditory-Visual Speech Perception in School and Preschool Children', 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology, University of Auckland.
  • Erdener, D. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Development of auditory-visual speech perception in English-speaking children: The role of language-specific factors', Auditory-Visual Speech Processing Workshop 2005, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Lees, N. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Facilitating speech detection in style!: The effect of visual speaking style on the detection of speech in noise', Auditory-Visual Speech Processing Workshop 2005, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Mixdorff, H., Charnvivit, P. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Auditory-visual perception of syllabic tones in Thai', Auditory-Visual Speech Processing Workshop 2005, British-Columbia, Canada.
  • Mixdorff, H., Burnham, D., Vignali, G. and Charnivivit, P. (2005), 'Are there FAcial Correlates of Thai Syllabic Tones', Eurospeech: Interspeech 2005, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Mixdorff, H., Hu, Y. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Visual Cues in Mandarin Tone Perception', Eurospeech: Interspeech, Lisboa 2005, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Schwanhaeusser, B. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Lexical Tone and Pitch Perception in Tone and Non-Tone Language Speakers', Eurospeech: Interspeech Lisboa 2005, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Erdener, D. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Language-Specific Factors n the Development of Auditory-Visual Speech Perception: Children and Adults', CEASS Conference: Scholarship and Community UWS 2005, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown.
  • Schwanhaeusser, B. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Lexical Tone and Pitch Perception in Tone and Non-Tone Language Speakers', CEASS Conference: Scholarship and Community UWS 2005, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown.
  • Mixdorff, H., Hu, Y. and Burnham, D. (2005), 'Visual cues in Mandarin tone perception', 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, .
  • Sekiyama, K. and Burnham, D. (2004), 'Issues in the Development of Auditory-Visual Speech Perception: Adults, Infants, and Children', 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea.
  • Sekiyama, K., Burnham, D., Tam, H. and Erdener, D. (2003), 'Auditory-Visual Speech Perception Development in Japanese and English Speakers', AVSP 2003 International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, St Jorioz, France.
  • Burnham, D., Issa, Z., Schoknecht, C., Tam, H., Jones, C. and Davis, C. (2003), 'Are Tones Phones', Proceedings of 15th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona.
  • Burnham, D. and Jones, C. (2002), 'Categorical perception of lexical tone by tonal and non-tonal language speakers', Ninth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne.
  • Rosen, A., Burnham, D. and Jones, C. (2002), 'Verbal overshadowing in speaker identification: Face and voice', Ninth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne.
  • Erdener, D. and Burnham, D. (2002), 'The effect of auditory-visual information and orthographic background in L2 acquisition', 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver, Colorado, USA.
  • Bernstein, L., Burnham, D. and Schwartz, J. (2002), 'Special Session: Issues in audiovisual spoken language processing (When, Where and How?)', 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver USA.
  • Burnham, D. and Brooker, R. (2002), 'Absolute pitch and lexical tones: Tone perception by non-musician, musician and absolute pitch non-tonal language speakers.', 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Denver USA.
  • Tyler, M. and Burnham, D. (2002), 'The role of orthographic processing in phoneme deletion tasks', The ninth australian international conference on speech science and technology, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Erdener, D. and Burnham, D. (2002), 'The effects of auditory-visual information and orthographic background on L2 acquisition', 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processessing, Denver, USA.
  • Burnham, D., Brooker, R. and Brooker, R. (2002), 'Absolute Pitch and Lexical Tones: Tone Perception By Non-Musician, Musician, and Absolute Pitch Non-Tonal Language Speakers', 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2002), Denver, Colorado.
  • Burnham, D., Ciocca, V. and Stokes, S. (2001), 'Auditory-Visual Perception of Lexical Tone', Eurospeech Scandanavia 7th European Confernce on Speech Communication and Technology, Aalborg, Denmark.
  • Burnham, D., Lau, S., Tam, H. and Schoknecht, C. (2001), 'Visual Discrimination of Cantonese Tone by Tonal but Non-Cantonese Speakers, and by Non-Tonal Language Speakers', AVSP 2001 International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Aalborg, Denmark.

Research

Current Projects

Title:From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads: A Research Platform for Human Communication Science
Years:2006-10-31 - 2013-12-31
ID:P0015054
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham, Catherine Stevens, Jorg Buchholz, Takaaki Kuratate, Garth Paine and Christine Kitamura
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Making speech three-dimensional: Adding tone to consonant- and vowel-based speech perception and language acquisition research, quantification and theory
Years:2009-01-01 - 2013-09-30
ID:P0016076
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham and Takaaki Kuratate
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Virtual Laboratory - Above and Beyond Speech, Language and Music: A Virtual Lab for Human Communication Science (HCS vLab) [via Uni Melb]
Years:2012-12-11 - 2013-12-31
ID:P00021140
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research & Tertiary Education (nonACRG)
  • University of Western Sydney
  • FLINDERS UNSW UMELB UC UWA USYD ANU RMIT UNE MQ LTU UTAS
  • Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association
Title:The seeds of literacy in infancy: Empirical specification of the acoustic determinants of language acquisition
Years:2011-01-01 - 2015-12-31
ID:P00018265
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Previous Projects

Title:From Speech Perception to Language Acquisition: The Role of Prosody, Tone, and Segments
Years:2000-01-01 - 2003-06-30
ID:P0009384
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Speech Perception by Eye and Ear: Linguistic and Cross-Linguistic Factors
Years:1999-01-01 - 2002-06-30
ID:P0009386
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:The Song & Dance of Mother and Infant in Health & Depression Vocalisations and Hand Gestures in Post Natal Depression
Years:2001-01-01 - 2004-12-19
ID:P0009526
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham, Christine Kitamura and Stephen Malloch
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • St John of God Hospital
  • Karitane
Title:Burnham Encouragement Award
Years:2000-02-14 - 2001-02-14
ID:P0009658
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Watch my Lips: Perception and Production of Tone and Prosody by Humans and Machines - DP0211947
Years:2002-02-07 - 2005-02-06
ID:P0009760
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:The How and Why of Auditory-Visual Speech Perception: Affected and articulatory factors in Japanese and English language infants and children (DP0558698)
Years:2005-01-18 - 2009-09-30
ID:P0009772
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:The Perinatal Period: Improvements to Care
Years:2003-10-01 - 2007-11-12
ID:P0014118
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Enabling Human Communication: Tough problems in human communication with bold but informed solutions drawing on sound, speech and language research capabilities
Years:2004-12-06 - 2010-12-31
ID:P0014346
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham, Catherine Stevens, Christine Kitamura and Stephen Malloch
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association
  • MQ USYD UQ UM RMIT ANU UNE QUT UWA UNSW UC
  • Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (non ACRG)
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Australian Music and Psychology Society
Title:Exploring the Audio-Visual Tonal Space in Thai, Mandarin, Cantonese and Vietnamese
Years:2004-09-06 - 2005-09-05
ID:P0013756
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Auditory-Visual Speech Production: What humans can tell robots; How experts can attract HDR students
Years:2003-09-15 - 2004-09-14
ID:P0013788
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:2000 UWS Seed Grant Funding Carry Forward
Years:2001-01-01 - 2001-12-31
ID:P0013032
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Speech Perception Preceeds Reading
Years:2000-12-21 - 2002-03-30
ID:P0010944
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:The Melody of Mother Infant Conversations: Determinations of the Acoustics Correlates of Emotion in Speech
Years:2000-01-01 - 2000-12-31
ID:P0011182
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham and Christine Kitamura
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Development of Research Tools for Psycholinguistic Studies in Asian Languages: Thai
Years:1999-01-01 - 1999-12-31
ID:P0011190
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:International Visiting Fellow - Dr Robin Panneton Cooper, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Years:2001-11-01 - 2002-12-31
ID:P0010656
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Optimal Training Methods for Lexical Tone Perception by Children with Cochlear Implants: Application of Experimental Psychology Techniques
Years:2005-08-22 - 2009-08-31
ID:P0014573
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham and Christine Kitamura
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Cochlear Limited
Title:How, What and Who in Human Communication: Movement of Face and Voice
Years:2004-09-23 - 2006-06-30
ID:P0012850
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Memoramdum of Understanding for Collaborative Research & Development in the area of: Human Auditory Response
Years:2001-07-16 - 2004-07-15
ID:P0012358
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Department of Defence
Title:Captions
Years:2000-04-27 - 2001-04-27
ID:P0012464
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:he Acoustic Bases of Affective Expressions
Years:2001-01-01 - 2001-12-31
ID:P0011870
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Captioning for Clarity 1: Survey of hearing-impaired and deaf caption users' needs and preferences
Years:2000-01-01 - 2000-12-31
ID:P0011352
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Tracing the Origins of Reading Acquisition: The Role of Language Specific Speech Perception
Years:2007-12-10 - 2008-12-09
ID:P0015898
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Movement and communication analysis lab and portable audience response facility
Years:2003-01-01 - 2003-12-31
ID:P0013634
UWS Researchers:Catherine Stevens, Stephen Malloch, Denis Burnham and Christine Kitamura
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (non ACRG)
  • University of Western Sydney
  • University of New South Wales
Title:An investigation of intersubjectivity: Music therapy and hospitalised infants
Years:2002-03-04 - 2005-12-31
ID:P0012718
UWS Researchers:Stephen Malloch and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Title:Text-to-Speech Synthesis: An Experimental Perceptual Analysis to Measure Intelligibility and Maximise Effectivenes
Years:2001-12-01 - 2002-12-31
ID:P0010728
UWS Researchers:Catherine Stevens and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Appen Pty Limited
Title:Reading text without spaces: The case of Thai Script
Years:2005-02-01 - 2006-09-01
ID:P0014483
UWS Researchers:Heather Winskel and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Infant-directed speech: Advantages for young language learners
Years:2003-01-04 - 2004-01-31
ID:P0011706
UWS Researchers:Christine Kitamura and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Building a Talking Head via Dynamic & 3D-Static, and Age- & Ethnically-Varied Databases: Perceptibility and Acceptability
Years:2006-06-26 - 2011-12-31
ID:P0014631
UWS Researchers:Takaaki Kuratate and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Dynamic Auditory-Visual Humans
Years:2007-08-06 - 2008-12-31
ID:P0015758
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis, Denis Burnham, Catherine Best, Roger Dean, Catherine Stevens, Jeesun Kim, Takaaki Kuratate, Christian Kroos, Michael Tyler and Connie So
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:A Pitch in Time: Investigation of Expectancies and Implicit Learning in Music Cognition
Years:2006-05-26 - 2012-12-01
ID:P0015162
UWS Researchers:Catherine Stevens, Denis Burnham and Catherine Best
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:AHAA! (Analysis of Human Articulate Activities): A Communicative Dynamics Research Facility
Years:2006-09-01 - 2007-08-31
ID:P0015240
UWS Researchers:Catherine Best, Catherine Stevens, Michael Tyler, Christian Kroos, Christopher Davis and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Putting international heads together: Building on the UWS Thinking Head Project
Years:2007-06-05 - 2012-12-31
ID:P0015655
UWS Researchers:Christopher Davis, Jeesun Kim, Takaaki Kuratate and Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Language Specific Speech Perception: A Primary Mechanism for Language Acquisition - DP0345614
Years:2003-01-23 - 2006-01-22
ID:P0009738
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Perception and Action in Auditory Scenes (PAAS): Neural, Behavioural, Computational and Mechanical Systems
Years:2004-01-02 - 2004-11-30
ID:P0014230
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham, Catherine Stevens, Stephen Malloch, Christine Kitamura, George Bryan, Carolyn Mcgregor, John Gal, Gu Fang, Marija Tabain and Mark Wiggins
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Burnham Encouragement Award
Years:1999-01-01 - 2002-12-31
ID:P0010956
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Captions for the deaf and hearing impaired: Availability versus Accessibility
Years:2002-06-28 - 2007-03-30
ID:P0012616
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children
Title:Medibank - Effect of Social & Emotional Factors on Mental & Physical Health in Older Australians
Years:2000-03-17 - 2001-03-17
ID:P0012462
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Oochie Coochie Coo: Emotional benefits of talking lovingly to infants, pets and adults
Years:2004-02-16 - 2005-08-31
ID:P0011624
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:See Hear! Multimodal Recording and Analysis Facility
Years:2006-05-09 - 2011-12-31
ID:P0014825
UWS Researchers:Catherine Stevens, Roger Dean, Denis Burnham, Stephen Malloch, Garth Paine and Catherine Best
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (non ACRG)
  • University of Western Sydney
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Australian Choreographic Centre
  • Uni NSW Univ of Syd and Univ of Canberra
Title:HCSNet Priority Area: Effective Interfaces
Years:2008-08-11 - 2010-04-28
ID:P00016450
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (non ACRG)
Title:HCSNet Priority Area: Next-Generation Search Technology
Years:2008-08-11 - 2010-04-28
ID:P00016451
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (non ACRG)
Title:HCSNet Priority Area: Human Communication Disorders
Years:2008-08-11 - 2010-04-28
ID:P00016452
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (non ACRG)
Title:Mechanisms of Sound and Word Learning in Bilingual and Bi-tonal Infants: Raising the Tone in Australia, UK, and Malaysia
Years:2009-10-28 - 2010-10-27
ID:P00017619
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:The New Science of Learning: Robots learning from Humans, Humans learning from Robots
Years:2009-09-22 - 2011-05-11
ID:P00017331
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham, Catherine Stevens, Christian Kroos, Damith Herath and X Stelarc
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:The Big Australian Speech Corpus: An Audio-Visual Speech Corpus of Australian English
Years:2010-07-01 - 2013-06-30
ID:P00017142
UWS Researchers:Denis Burnham, Takaaki Kuratate and Catherine Best
Funding:
  • University of Melbourne
  • University of Canberra
  • Flinders University of South Australia
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Queensland
  • University of Sydney
  • Australian National University (non ACRG)
  • Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association
  • University of Tasmania
  • Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
  • University of Western Australia
  • Macquarie University
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Australian Research Council (non ACRG)

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Title:Hearing Under Difficult Circumstances
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