Jane Stuart-Smith, BA, MPhil, DPhil
Reader
- Phonetics (experimental; voice quality)
- Sociophonetics
- Laboratory Phonology
- Sociolinguistics (bilingualism, social/regional accents)
- Language Variation and Change
- Glasgow accent
- Impact of the media on language change
- ethnic accents of English (British Asian, 'Glaswasian')
- British varieties of Asian languages (Panjabi)
- Historical Linguistics (Indo-European: Italic philology)
Room 16, 12 University Gardens
telephone: 0141 330 6852
e-mail: j.stuart-smith@englang.arts.gla.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Jane Stuart-Smith is a Reader in English Language. She is the author of a number of articles on: variation and change in Glaswegian accent, the impact of the broadcast media (television) on language change, the sociophonetics of British Asian accents, the phonetics and phonology of British varieties of Panjabi, the acquisition of literacy in Panjabi/English bilingual children, historical linguistics and sound-change. She is author of Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change (OUP 2004), co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Scots (2003) (with J. Corbett and J.D. McClure), and was the English phonetics editor for the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (1994). She is now writing a monograph on the influence of the media on language change (Mediating the local: language change and the media).
Dr Stuart-Smith is the director of a programme of research on aspects of variation and change in Glaswegian accent. She has managed four completed projects: 'Accent Change in Glaswegian', funded by the Leverhulme Trust (1999, RA Claire Timmins), ‘Is television a contributory factor in accent change in adolescents?’ funded by the ESRC (2002-2005, RA Claire Timmins), ‘Looking variation and change in the mouth: developing the
sociolinguistic potential of Ultrasound Tongue Imaging’, funded by the ESRC (2007-2008; PI Jim Scobbie, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; RA:
Eleanor Lawson), and 'Investigating Ethnic Accents: An acoustic phonetic analysis of Glasgow Asian', funded by the British Academy (2008; RA Claire Timmins, Farhana Alam).
Dr Stuart-Smith was a member of the ESRC Virtual College for Management Psychology Linguistics and Education (2002-5), the ESRC First Grants Panel (2007, 2008, 2009), and is currently serving on the AHRC Peer Review College. She supervises postgraduate students at doctoral and masters levels in phonetics and sociolinguistics. She welcomes postgraduate applications in these areas, and in bilingualism, particularly in Asian languages spoken in the UK, such as Panjabi.