Jennifer Smith, MEd, MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer
- Sociolinguistics
- Language Variation and Change
- Scottish dialects
- Colonial Englishes
- Acquisition of variation
- Narrative analysis
Postgraduate Convener
Room 9, 12 University Gardens
telephone: 0141 330 3171
e-mail: jennifer.smith@englang.arts.gla.ac.uk
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Biography
Dr Jennifer Smith is a Lecturer in English Language. She graduated in Linguistics from Durham (MA) and York (PhD). Her research is in sociolinguistics and language variation and change, concentrating on the morphosyntactic features of non-standard dialects through the use of online corpora. She has conducted research on Scottish dialects and their relationships to colonial Englishes in North America (co-author Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto). She has directed two ESRC funded projects: 'Caregiver and child in the acquisition of variation'; 'Obsolescence vs stability in a Shetland dialect: evidence from three generations of speakers'. She is also currently writing a book (co-author Professor David Adger, QMW London) on the interface between formal theories of language and variation.
Dr Smith welcomes postgraduates in any aspects of sociolinguistic research, particularly the study of non-standard dialects worldwide.