Professor Mattias Heldner
IAS Annual Theme: Breathe
Stockholm University
Mattias Heldner is Director of the Phonetics Laboratory in the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. His research is in communicative behaviour relevant for turn-taking in conversation, and signalling of prosodic functions such as prominence and boundaries.
As a Director of the Phonetics lab, he has developed recording facilities for breathing movements and voice quality dynamics in conversation, as well as more general facilities for capturing acoustic and physiological signals. He has published numerous articles on the various interactional aspects of breathing in conversation.