School of Critical Studies

Prof Jane Stuart-Smith

  • Professor (English Language)

telephone: 01413306852
email: Jane.Stuart-Smith@glasgow.ac.uk


Research interests

Biography

Dr Jane Stuart-Smith is a Professor in English Language and Director of the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics.  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 variation and 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 in Italic (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 currently writing a monograph on the influence of the media on language change: Mediating the local: The role of television for a changing urban vernacular, Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics, OUP.

Dr Stuart-Smith is currently running two projects, one looking at how Glaswegian accent has changed since the 1970s (Sounds of the City), funded by the Leverhulme Trust, with Claire Timmins, Ben Torsney, Tamara Rathcke and Brian Jose, and the other –with a number of collaborators across Scotland, and especially Eleanor Lawson – to develop an online resource for teaching articulatory phonetics – funded by the Carnegie Trust. She is also working with Jim Scobbie and Eleanor Lawson on an ESRC-funded project to investigate further the transmission of articulatory variation, using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging to look particularly at derhoticization in Scottish English (Seeing the links in the speaker-hearer chain). And she is working with Rachel Smith to help Microphonics develop their innovative computer-literacy tool to help learners of English as a Second Language (Encompass, First Step Award).

She has previously directed research on aspects of variation and change in Glaswegian accent, first a Leverhulme-funded project, Accent Change in Glaswegian (1999), and following from that – and in order to investigate the role of the broadcast media on language variation and change –  Is television a contributory factor in accent change in adolescents? (ESRC, 2002-2005). She then worked with Jim Scobbie and Eleanor Lawson at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, on Looking variation and change in the mouth: developing the sociolinguistic potential of Ultrasound Tongue Imaging funded by the ESRC (2007-2008), and with Claire Timmins and Farhana Alam, on 'Investigating Ethnic Accents: An acoustic phonetic analysis of Glasgow Asian', funded by the British Academy (2008).

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Number of items: 54.

2013

Corbett, J., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2013) English in Scotland. In: Hopkins, T., McKenny, J. and Decker, K. (eds.) World Englishes: Volume I: The British Isles. Series: World Englishes . Continuum, London, UK, 189-217 . ISBN 9780826478481

Lawson, E., Scobbie, J., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2013) Bunched /r/ promotes vowel merger to schwar: an ultrasound tongue imaging study of Scottish sociophonetic variation. Journal of Phonetics, 41 (3-4). pp. 198-210. ISSN 0095-4470 (doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2013.01.004)

Stuart-Smith, J., Timmins, C., Pryce, G., and Gunter, B. (2013) Television can also be a factor in language change: evidence from an urban dialect. Language, 89 (3). pp. 1-36. ISSN 1537-7350 (In Press)

2012

Corbett, J., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2012) Standard English in Scotland. In: Hickey , R. (ed.) Standards of English: Codified Standards Around the World. Series: Studies in English language . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 72-95. ISBN 9780521763899

MacFarlane, A., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2012) 'One of them sounds sort of Glasgow Uni-ish'. Social judgements and fine phonetic variation in Glasgow. Lingua, 122 (7). pp. 764-778. ISSN 0024-3841 (doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2012.01.007)

Scobbie, J.M., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2012) Socially-stratified sampling in laboratory-based phonological experimentation. In: Cohn, A., Fougeron, C. and Huffman, M. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Series: Oxford handbooks in linguistics . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 607-621. ISBN 9780199575039

Scobbie, J.M., Stuart-Smith, J., and Lawson, E. (2012) Back to front: a socially-stratified ultrasound tongue imaging study of Scottish English /u/. Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica, 24 . pp. 103-148. ISSN 1120-2726

Stuart-Smith, J. (2012) English and the media: television. In: Berg, A. and Brinton, L. (eds.) English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook. Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (34(1)). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 1075-1088. ISBN 9783110202205

Stuart-Smith, J., and Cortina-Borja, M. (2012) A law unto themselves? An acoustic phonetic study of tonal consonants in Panjabi. In: Willi, A. and Probert, R. (eds.) Laws and Rules in Indo-European. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 61-82. ISBN 9780199609925

2011

Stuart-Smith, J., Smith, R., Rathcke, T., Li Santi, F., and Holmes, S. (2011) Responding to accents after experiencing interactive or mediated speech. In: ICPhS XVII, 17-21 Aug 2011, Hong Kong.

Lawson, E., Scobbie, J.M., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2011) The social stratification of tongue shape for postvocalic /r/ in Scottish English. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 15 (2). pp. 256-268. ISSN 1467-9841 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00464.x)

Alam, F., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2011) Identity and ethnicity in /t/ in Glasgow-Pakistani high-school girls. In: ICPhS XVII, 17-21 Aug 2011, Hong Kong.

Lawson, E., Scobbie, J.M., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2011) A single case study of articulatory adaptation during acoustic mimicry. In: ICPhS XVII, 17-21 Aug 2011, Hong Kong.

Stuart-Smith, J. (2011) The view from the couch: changing perspectives on the role of the television in changing language ideologies and use. In: Kristiansen, T. and Coupland, N. (eds.) Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe. Series: Standard language ideology in contemporary Europe (1). Novus Press, Oslo, pp. 223-239. ISBN 9788270996599

Stuart-Smith, J., Timmins, C., and Alam, F. (2011) Hybridity and ethnic accents: A sociophonetic analysis of ‘Glaswasian’. In: Gregersen, F., Parrott, J. and Quist, P. (eds.) Language Variation - European Perspectives III: Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009. Series: Studies in language variation (7). John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 43-57. ISBN 9789027234872

2010

Lawson , E., Stuart-Smith, J., Scobbie , J.M., Yaeger-Dror, M., and Maclagan, M. (2010) Analyzing liquids. In: De Paolo, M. and Yaeger-Dror, M. (eds.) Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 72-86. ISBN 9780415498784

Stuart-Smith, J., and Timmins, C. (2010) The role of the individual in language variation and change. In: Llamas, C. and Watt, D. (eds.) Language and Identities. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 39-54. ISBN 9780748635764

2009

Adank, P., Evans, B., Stuart-Smith, J., and Scotti, S. (2009) Comprehension of familiar and unfamiliar native accents under adverse listening conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35 (2). pp. 520-529. ISSN 0096-1523 (doi:10.1037/a0013552)

Stuart-Smith, J., and Haddican, B. (2009) Sociolinguistics in the British Isles. In: Ball, M.J. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 296-309. ISBN 9780415422789

2008

Lawson, E., Stuart-Smith, J., and Scobbie, J. (2008) Articulatory insights into language variation and change: preliminary findings from an ultrasound study of derhoticization in Scottish English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 14 (2). pp. 102-110. ISSN 1524-9549

Scobbie, J.M., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2008) Quasi-phonemic contrast and the fuzzy inventory: examples from Scottish English. In: Avery, P., Dresher, B.E. and Rice, K. (eds.) Contrast in Phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition. Series: Phonology and phonetics (13). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 87-113. ISBN 9783110198218

2007

Stuart-Smith, J., Timmins, C., and Tweedie, F. (2007) 'Talkin' Jockney'?: variation and change in Glaswegian accent. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 11 (2). pp. 221-260. ISSN 1467-9841 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00319.x)

Lambert, K., Alam, F., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2007) Investigating British Asian accents: studies from Glasgow. In: Trouvain, J. and Barry, W.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: ICPhS XVI, 6 - 10 August 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 1509-1511. ISBN 9783981153514

Stuart-Smith, J. (2007) Empirical evidence for gendered speech production: /s/ in Glaswegian. In: Cole, J. and Hualde, J.I. (eds.) Laboratory Phonology 9. Series: Phonology and phonetics . Mouton de Gruyter, New York, USA, pp. 65-86. ISBN 9783110186833

Stuart-Smith, J. (2007) The influence of the media. In: Llamas, C., Mullany, L. and Stockwell, P. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 140-148. ISBN 9780415338493

Stuart-Smith, J. (2007) A sociophonetic investigation of postvocalic /r/ in Glaswegian adolescents. In: Trouvain, J. and Barry, W.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: ICPhS XVI, 6 - 10 August 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, p. 1307. ISBN 9783981153514

2006

Stuart-Smith, J., and Timmins, C. (2006) 'Tell her to shut her moof': the role of the lexicon in TH-fronting in Glaswegian. In: Kay, C.J., Caie, G.D., Hough, C. and Wotherspoon, I. (eds.) The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics: In Honour of Christian J. Kay. Series: Costerus: new series (163). Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 171-183. ISBN 9789042021211

Stuart-Smith, J., Timmins, C., and Tweedie, F. (2006) Conservation and innovation in a traditional dialect: L-vocalization in Glaswegian. English World Wide, 27 (1). pp. 71-87. ISSN 0172-8865

2004

Stuart-Smith, J. (2004) Phonetics and philology: sound change in italic. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199257737

Stuart-Smith, J. (2004) Scottish English: phonology. In: Kortmann, B., Burridge, K., Schneider, E.W., Mesthrie, R. and Upton, C. (eds.) A Handbook of Varieties of English: 1: Phonology. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 47-67. ISBN 9783110175325

2003

Corbett, J.B., McClure, J.D. and Stuart-Smith, J., (Eds.) (2003) The Edinburgh Companion to Scots. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748615964

Corbett, J.B., McClure, J.D., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2003) A brief history of Scots. In: Corbett, J.B., McClure, J.D. and Stuart-Smith, J. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scots. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780748615964

Eremeeva, V., and Stuart-Smith, J. (2003) A sociophonetic investigation of the vowels OUT and BIT in Glaswegian. In: Solé, M.J., Recasens, D. and Romero, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: 3-9 August 2003, Barcelona, Spain. Causal Productions, Rundle Mall, Australia, pp. 1205-1208. ISBN 9781876346492

Stuart-Smith, J. (2003) The phonology of modern urban Scots. In: Corbett, J., McClure, J.D. and Stuart-Smith, J. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scots. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 110-137. ISBN 9780748615964

Stuart-Smith, J., Timmins, C., and Wrench, A. (2003) Sex and gender in /s/ in Glaswegian. In: Solé, M.J., Recasens, D. and Romero, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: 3-9 August 2003, Barcelona, Spain. Causal Productions, Rundle Mall, Australia, pp. 1851-1854. ISBN 9781876346492

2002

Cortina-Borja, M., Stuart-Smith, J., and Valinas-Coalla, L. (2002) Multivariate classification methods for lexical and phonological dissimilarities and their application to the Uto-Aztecan family. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 9 (2). pp. 97-124. ISSN 0929-6174 (doi:10.1076/jqul.9.2.97.8485)

2001

Dankovicova, J., Gurd, J., Marshall, J., MacMahon, M.K., Stuart-Smith, J., Coleman, J., and Slater, A. (2001) Aspects of non-native pronunciation in a case of altered accent following stroke (foreign accent syndrome). Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 15 (3). pp. 195-218. ISSN 0269-9206 (doi:10.1080/02699200010004656)

Stuart-Smith, J., and Martin, D. (2001) Assessing the role of Panjabi phonological skills in English literacy development in Panjabi/English bilingual children. In: Abbi, A., Gupta, R.S. and Kidwai, A. (eds.) Linguistic Structure and Language Dynamics in South Asia: Papers from the Proceedings of SALA XVIII Roundtable. Series: MLBD series in linguistics (15). Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, India, pp. 73-88. ISBN 9788120817654

2000

Stuart-Smith, J. (2000) Two South Picene inscriptions reread - CH.2; AP.4. Papers from the British School at Rome, 68 . pp. 95-109. ISSN 0068-2462

1999

Stuart-Smith, J., and Martin, D. (1999) Developing assessment procedures for phonological awareness for use with Panjabi-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 3 (1). pp. 55-80. ISSN 1367-0069 (doi:10.1177/13670069990030010401)

Stuart-Smith, J. (1999) Glasgow: accent and voice quality. In: Foulkes, P. and Docherty, G.J. (eds.) Urban voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles. Arnold, Leeds, UK, pp. 201-222. ISBN 9780340706084

Stuart-Smith, J. (1999) Glottals past and present: a study of T-glottalling in Glaswegian. Leeds Studies in English, 30 . pp. 181-204. ISSN 0075-8566

Stuart-Smith, J. (1999) Voice quality in Glaswegian. In: Ohala, J.J. (ed.) Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, 1-7 August 1999. Linguistics Dept., University of California, Berkeley, Calif., USA, pp. 2553-2556. ISBN 9781563968990

Stuart-Smith, J., and Lawson, E. (1999) A sociophonetic investigation of the 'Scottish' consonants (/x/ and /hw/) in the speech of Glaswegian children. In: Ohala, J.J. (ed.) Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, 1-7 August 1999. Linguistics Dept., University of California, Berkeley, Calif., USA, pp. 2541-2544. ISBN 9781563968990

1998

Martin, D., Stuart-Smith, J., and Dhesi, K.K. (1998) Insiders and outsiders: translating in a bilingual research project. In: Hunston, S. (ed.) Language at Work: Selected Papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Held at the University of Birmingham, September 1997. Series: British studies in applied linguistics (13). British Association for Applied Linguistics, Clevedon, UK, pp. 109-122. ISBN 9781853594274

Stuart-Smith, J., and Martin, D. (1998) Exploring bilingual children's perceptions of being bilingual and biliterate: implications for educational provision. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 19 . pp. 237-254. ISSN 0142-5692

1997

Stuart-Smith, J. (1997) Uncertainty in the community language classroom: a response to Michael Clyne. Current Issues in Language and Society, 4 (2). pp. 159-161. ISSN 1352-0520

Stuart-Smith, J., and Martin, D. (1997) Investigating literacy and pre-literacy skills in Panjabi/English schoolchildren. Educational Review, 49 . pp. 181-197. ISSN 0013-1911

1996

Dankovicova, J., and Stuart-Smith, J. (1996) Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, Theme Issue: Phonetics [Volume Editors]. Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, 1 . ISSN 1473-9356

Stuart-Smith, J. (1996) Oscan index. In: Crawford, M.H. (ed.) Roman Statutes. Series: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: Supplement (64). Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, London, UK. ISBN 9780900587696

Stuart-Smith, J. (1996) Phonetic contraints on breathy voices stops as a cause of their diachronic development. Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, 1 . ISSN 1473-9356

Stuart-Smith, J. (1996) Reconstructed sound change and phonetic plausibility: the development of the Indo-European voiced aspirates in Italic. Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 9 . pp. 45-57. ISSN 0774-5141

1995

Stuart-Smith, J. (1995) The role of phonetics in the evaluation of reconstructed sound change. In: Elenius, K. and Branderud, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, 13-19 August 1995. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 682-685. ISBN 9789171708366

1994

Stuart-Smith, J. (1994) Prononciation de l'anglais. In: Corréard, M.-H. and Grundy, V. (eds.) Oxford-Hachette French dictionary : French-English, English-French. Hachette, Paris, France. ISBN 9780198641957

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2012: Encompass (First Step Award), Glasgow University Innovations Fund: April-September 2011: Effectiveness of Micro-phonics Pronunciation Coach software. Principal applicant: J Stuart-Smith, co-applicant: R. Smith

2011: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: JSPS Invitation Fellowship Program for Research in Japan (Short-Term), Invitation from: Ichiro Ota (Kagoshima University). ID No. S-11114.

2011-14: Leverhulme Trust: Fine phonetic variation and sound change: A real-time study of Glaswegian (also Sounds of the City), Principal applicant: J. Stuart-Smith, co-applicant. B. Torsney; co-applicant: C. Timmins

2011: ESRC: Seeing the links in the speaker-hearer chain: An investigation of the transmission of articulatory variation using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging. Principal applicant: J. Scobbie, co-applicant: J. Stuart-Smith, co-applicant: E. Lawson

2011: Carnegie Trust: An online Ultrasound Tongue Imaging resource for Phonetics, Linguistics, and Speech Therapy teaching at Scottish Universities, Principal Applicant: J. Stuart-Smith, co-applicants: J. Scobbie, A.Turk, M. Durham, C. Timmins, D. Beavan. RA: Eleanor Lawson

2011: First Step Award, Glasgow University Innovations Fund: April-September 2011: Microphonics – a computer-aided literacy tool. Principal applicant: J Stuart-Smith, co-applicant: R. Smith

2008: British Academy: Investigating ethnic accents: an acoustic analysis of Glasgow Asian, principal/sole applicant: J. Stuart-Smith; Research Assistants: Claire Timmins, Farhana Alam

2007-9: Economic and Social Research Council: Looking variation and change in the mouth: developing the sociolinguistic potential of Ultrasound Tongue Imaging, Grant No RES-000-22-2032, principal applicant: J. Scobbie, co-applicant: J. Stuart-Smith, research fellow: E. Lawson

2006: Royal Society of Edinburgh: Caledonian Research Fellowship/Royal Society of Edinburgh Visiting Scholars Fellowship: research visit to Hannover Freie Universitaet, September – December 2006

2004-7: Arts and Humanities Research Board (Resource Enhancement Scheme): Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS), Grant no. APN17387, principal applicant: J. Corbett, co-applicant 1: J. Stuart-Smith; co-applicant 2: C. Kay

2004: John Robertson Bequest, University of Glasgow: Empirical evidence for gendered speech production: /s/ in Glaswegian

2002-5: Economic and Social Research Council: Is TV a factor in accent change in adolescents, Grant no. R000239757, principal/sole applicant: J. Stuart-Smith; ESRC research fellow: Claire Timmins

2002 (awarded 2001, delayed by maternity leave): Arts and Humanities Research Board: Research Leave Grant: Accent change in Glaswegian

1999: Leverhulme Trust; Accent change in Glaswegian: A sociophonetic investigation, (F/179/AX): principal applicant: J. Stuart-Smith; co-applicant: F. Tweedie; research assistant: C. Timmins

Dr Stuart-Smith supervises postgraduate students at doctoral and masters levels in phonetics, sociophonetics, and sociolinguistics. She welcomes postgraduate applications in these areas, and in bilingualism, particularly in Asian languages spoken in the UK, such as Panjabi.

Current PhD students:

Vijay Solanki (2012-), Brains in dialogue: Cerebral processing of speech in conversation, Lord Kelvin / Adam Smith Scholarship Scheme (with Rachel Smith, Pascal Belin, Alessandro Vinciarelli)

Robert Lennon (2012-) , The effect of experience in cross-dialect perception: parsing /r/ in Glaswegian, ESRC (with Rachel Smith)

Duncan Robertson (2011-), Implicit sociolingustic cognition, ESRC (with Rachel Smith, Christoph Scheepers)

Louisa Cawley (2009-),  Voice quality in forensic research, York University (with Peter French, JP French Associates)

Claire Nance (2009-), Transmission of Scottish Gaelic in the modern world, Lord Kelvin / Adam Smith Scholarship Scheme (with Robby O’Maolalaigh, Andrew Smith)

Farhana Alam (2007-),  Language,  identity and ethnicity in Asian girls in Glasgow, ESRC

Ninik Poedjianto (2000-), Production and perception of foreign accent

 

Former PhD students:

Cassie Smith-Christmas (2008-12), Code-switching and language maintenance in a Gaelic speaking family in Skye (with Robby O’Maolalaigh)

Ellen Bramwell (2006-2012), Naming in Society: A cross-cultural study of five communities in Scotland, ESRC

Robert Lawson (2005-9), Sociolinguistic constructions of identity among adolescent males in Glasgow, ESRC

Suzy Orr (2003-7) – ‘Hanging on the Telephone’  A Sociophonetic Study of Speech in a Glaswegian Call Centre, ESRC

 

Former MLitt student:

Sam de Smith (2000-4), Auditory and articulatory analysis of voice quality

 

Former MPhil students include:

Owen McCarthy (2010-11), Ejective realisations of phrase final plosives in Glaswegian high school girls

Sheona Gardner (2004-5), Welsh/English codeswitching in adolescents

Karen Torrance (2001-2), Language attitudes and language change in Glasgow, AHRB

Dr Stuart-Smith is currently the Pathway Coordinator for the Scottish Graduate School Doctoral Training Centre postgraduate training, Social and Applied Investigations in Language (SAIL). She 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 will be a member of the REF 2014 Panel D:28, Modern Languages and Linguistics. She is also an Associate Editor for the International Journal of the Phonetics Association.