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Citations
3631
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6799
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1084

Overview

Ray Wilkinson is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Computer Science, with a particular focus on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to language, discourse, and communication strategies. Key topics covered in their publications include:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Ray Wilkinson has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications across diverse venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Bodies at play: the role of intercorporeality and bodily affordances in coordinating social play in chimpanzees in the wild," published in 2024 by Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Commentary - developing the comparative perspective in atypical interaction research," published in 2020 by Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
  • "The impact of co-occurring communicative impairments on the understandability of atypical speakers' talk," published in 2020 by AFinLAn vuosikirja
  • "Making people with aphasia speak for themselves in conversation: non-collaboration by significant others in the production of answers to test questions," published in 2025 by Aphasiology

The venues where Wilkinson has frequently published include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
  • AFinLAn vuosikirja
  • Aphasiology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Simone Pika, Bas van Boekholt, Johannes Wagner, Danielle Jones, and Clare Jackson. These collaborations reflect a network of interdisciplinary engagement likely contributing to the breadth of their work across language and cognitive studies.

Best Publications

  • Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships and Conversation (SPPARC)

    Sarah Lock;Ray Wilkinson;Karen Bryan;Jane Maxim

  • Taking turns: Bridging the gap between human and animal communication

    Simone Pika;Ray Wilkinson;Kobin H. Kendrick;Sonja C. Vernes

  • Everyday conversation in dementia: a review of the literature to inform research and practice.

    Jacqueline Kindell;John Keady;Karen Sage;Raymond Wilkinson

  • Managing linguistic incompetence as a delicate issue in aphasic talk-in-interaction: On the use of laughter in prolonged repair sequences

    Ray Wilkinson

  • Using Conversation Analysis to Assess and Treat People with Aphasia

    Suzanne Beeke;Jane Maxim;Ray Wilkinson

  • Therapy using conversation analysis: Helping couples adapt to aphasia in conversation

    Ray Wilkinson;Karen Bryan;Sarah Lock;Kate Bayley

  • Repair sequences in aphasic talk: a comparison of aphasic-speech and language therapist and aphasic-spouse conversations

    Jayne Lindsay;Ray Wilkinson

  • Interaction between children with cerebral palsy and their peers 1: Organizing and understanding VOCA use.

    Michael Clarke;Ray Wilkinson

  • Interaction between children with cerebral palsy and their peers 2: Understanding initiated VOCA-mediated turns

    Michael Clarke;Ray Wilkinson

  • Formulating Actions and Events With Limited Linguistic Resources: Enactment and Iconicity in Agrammatic Aphasic Talk

    Ray Wilkinson;Suzanne Beeke;Jane Maxim

  • Sequentiality as a problem and resource for intersubjectivity in aphasic conversation: analysis and implications for therapy

    Ray Wilkinson

  • The understandability of AAC: A conversation analysis study of acquired dysarthria

    Steven Bloch;Ray Wilkinson

  • Interaction-focused intervention for acquired language disorders: Facilitating mutual adaptation in couples where one partner has aphasia

    Ray Wilkinson;Sarah Lock;Karen Bryan;Karen Sage

  • Implementing and evaluating aphasia therapy targeted at couples' conversations: A single case study

    Raymond Wilkinson;Karen Bryan;Sarah Lock;Karen Sage

  • Grammar without sentence structure: A conversation analytic investigation of agrammatism

    Suzanne Beeke;Ray Wilkinson;Jane Maxim

  • Intervening With Conversation Analysis in Speech and Language Therapy: Improving Aphasic Conversation

    Ray Wilkinson

  • Can impairment-focused therapy change the everyday conversations of people with aphasia? A review of the literature and future directions

    Marcella Carragher;Paul Conroy;Karen Sage;Ray Wilkinson

  • Exploring aphasic grammar. 2: Do language testing and conversation tell a similar story?

    Suzanne Beeke;Ray Wilkinson;Jane Maxim

  • Conversation Analysis and Communication Disorders

    Ray Wilkinson

  • Interaction-focused intervention: A conversation analytic approach to aphasia therapy

    Ray Wilkinson

  • Adapting to conversation: on the use of linguistic resources by speakers with fluent aphasia in the construction of turns at talk

    R Wilkinson;S Beeke;J Maxim

  • Exploring aphasic grammar 1: a single case analysis of conversation

    Suzanne Beeke;Ray Wilkinson;Jane Maxim

  • Adapting to conversation with semantic dementia: Using enactment as a compensatory strategy in everyday social interaction

    Jacqueline Kindell;Karen Sage;John Keady;Ray Wilkinson

  • Aphasia: conversation analysis of a non-fluent aphasic person.

    R Wilkinson;Mick Perkins;Sara Howard

  • Living With Semantic Dementia A Case Study of One Family’s Experience

    Jacqueline Kindell;Karen Sage;Ray Wilkinson;John Keady

  • Conversation Analysis and the Study of Atypical Populations

    Charles Antaki;Ray Wilkinson

  • Formulating Actions and Events With Limited Linguistic Resources: Enactment and Iconicity in Agrammatic

    Ray Wilkinson;Suzanne Beeke;Jane Maxim

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Sage
Karen Sage Sheffield Hallam University
John Keady
John Keady University of Manchester
Nicky Britten
Nicky Britten University of Exeter
Charles Antaki
Charles Antaki Loughborough University
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York

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