Scholar
Jane Stuart-Smith
Google Scholar ID: PLH8f6MAAAAJ
Professor of Phonetics and Sociolinguistics, University of Glasgow
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,129
H-index
27
i10-index
60
Publications
20
Co-authors
26
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published 'Phonetics and Philology'; involved in several research projects including SPADE, Seeing Speech, Dynamic Dialects, STAR, VariCS, and Sounds of the City.
Research Experience
- Worked in publishing at Pergamon Press and Oxford University Press; was an ESRC Research Fellow on a psycholinguistic research project about bilingualism and literacy acquisition in young Panjabi-English speaking children at the School of Education, University of Birmingham (1996); moved to Glasgow in 1997 and established the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP) with Mike MacMahon, Rachel Smith, and others; hosted the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2015, in Glasgow.
Education
- Received her first degree in Classics from University College London, where she also studied Sanskrit and Comparative Philology. She then went to Oxford University for an MPhil in Comparative Philology and General Linguistics (1991) and a DPhil in historical phonology (1996).
Background
- Research interests include Phonetics, Sociophonetics, Laboratory Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics. Specific areas of focus are phonological variation and change (especially in the Glasgow accent and English more generally), articulatory sociolinguistics, ethnicity, bilingualism and language variation, influence of the broadcast media on language change, sound change over time in Glaswegian, variation in children's speech, and the sociolinguistics of Human Robot Interaction.
