Research

Modern English Language & Linguistics

This cluster encompasses areas from phonetics and psycholinguistics through grammar and discourse studies to lexicology and semantics.

Staff

Publications

2026

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Kendall, T., Mielke, J. (2026) wav2VOT: Automatic Estimation of Voice Onset Time, Closure Duration, and Burst Realisation with wav2vec2.

Cęcelewski, J., Stuart-Smith, J., Gendrot, C. (2026) How does coarticulation play a role at the end of a sound change? A dynamic-acoustic study of historical ł-vocalization in the Polish Film Chronicle (1944–1994) Journal of Phonetics,

Patrick, K., Cleland, J., Gibson, L., Kuschmann, A., Murali, M., Rutter, B., Smith, A., Stuart-Smith, J., Taylor, L. (2026) Assessment of word juncture behaviours in the semi-structured connected speech of typically developing children: a pilot of a new method. Journal of Connected Speech,

Aczel, B. et al. (2026) Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature, 652, pp. 135-142. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09844-9)

Hawkins, S., Smith, R., Stuart-Smith, J., Fromont, R. (2026) Phonetic correlates of prefixedness in four varieties of English. Laboratory Phonology, 17, pp. 1-64. (doi: 10.16995/labphon.17571)

Stuart-Smith, J., Macdonald, R. (2026) Scots and Scottish Standard English. Cambridge University Press

Ashkenazi, S., Srour-Zreik, R., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., Foster, M. E. (2026) Participatory design for human-robot interaction with Syrian refugees and asylum seekers. (doi: 10.1007/978-981-95-2382-5_7)

Hunt, M., Strange, L., Holmes-Elliott, S. (2026) Gender penalty? Linguistic discrimination and perceptions of female football commentators. Gender and Language, 20, pp. 60-89. (doi: 10.3138/gl-2025-0027)

2025

Shaktawat, D., Stuart-Smith, J., Cohen, C. (2025) Backward transfer of Glasgow English on Indian English and Hindi. International Journal of Bilingualism, (doi: 10.1177/13670069251393160)

Ashkenazi, S., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., Foster, M. E. (2025) The Multilingual Student Support Robot. (doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN63969.2025.11217768)

Ashkenazi, S., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., Foster, M. E. (2025) Into the Wild: When Robots Are Not Welcome.

Christodoulidou, P., Tanner, J., Stuart-Smith, J., McAuliffe, M., Murali, M., Smith, A., Taylor, L., Cleland, J., Kuschmann, A. (2025) A Semi-Automatic Pipeline for Transcribing and Segmenting Child Speech. (doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1030)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Mielke, J., Kendall, T. (2025) Automatic Classification of Stop Realisation with wav2vec2.0. (doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-491)

Tanner, J., Shinohara, Y., Chiu, F. (2025) Language-specific phonetic realisation of stop voicing contrasts in English and Japanese synthesised speech. JASA Express Letters, 5, (doi: 10.1121/10.0039066)

Emmott, C., Alexander, M. (2025) Schema theory. Routledge

Foster, M. E., Stuart-Smith, J., Ahmad, M. I., Hough, J. (2025) Aye, Robot: What Happens When Robots Speak Like Real People? (doi: 10.1145/3719160.3737615)

Murali, M., Cleland, J., Taylor, L., Young, D., Stuart-Smith, J., Kuschmann, A. (2025) A study of voice quality and acoustic variability in sound prolongation performance in 5–12-year-old children. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, (doi: 10.1159/000546421)

Plug, L., Zheng, Y., Smith, R. (2025) The impact of clear speech modifications on perceived tempo of rate-matched English utterances. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 157, pp. 2835-2846. (doi: 10.1121/10.0036437)

2024

Strange, L. (2024) My body my choice: magical thinking and discourses of bodily autonomy in anti-mask rhetoric. Routledge

Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E., Smith, J. (2024) Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle: plugging the amn’t gap. Journal of Linguistics, (doi: 10.1017/S0022226724000203)

Macdonald, R., Stuart-Smith, J. (2024) Coarticulation guides sound change: an acoustic-phonetic study of real-time change in word-initial /l/ over four decades of Glaswegian. De Gruyter Mouton

Smith, J., Stuart-Smith, J., Macdonald, R., Jamieson, E. (2024) Scots and Scottish Standard English. Cambridge University Press

Cohen, C. (2024) Predicting this rock: listeners use redundant phonetic information in online morphosyntactic processing. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 3, (doi: 10.5070/G60111493)

Jamieson, E., Smith, J., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Thoms, G. (2024) ‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots. English Language and Linguistics, (doi: 10.1017/S1360674323000679)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Kendall, T., Mielke, J., Dodsworth, R., Thomas, E. (2024) Exploring the Anatomy of Articulation Rate in Spontaneous English Speech: Relationships between Utterance Length Effects and Social Factors. (doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-1154)

Hannaford, E. D., Schlegel, V., Lewis, R., Ramsden, S., Bunn, J., Moore, J., Alexander, M., Barker, H., Batista-Navarro, R., Hughes, L., Nenadic, G. (2024) Our heritage, our stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage. Journal of Documentation, 80, pp. 1133-1147. (doi: 10.1108/JD-03-2024-0057)

Hughes, L., Alexander, M., Bartliff, Z. (2024) Our Heritage, Our Stories. One step up: the importance of failure in a large-scale DH project at the crossroads of disciplines and institutions.

Hannaford, E. D., Benkhedda, Y., Alexander, M., Nenadic, G., Batista-Navarro, R. (2024) Refining Predicates for Relation Extraction through Thesaurus Integration.

Plug, L., Lennon, R., Smith, R. (2024) Testing for canonical form orientation in speech tempo perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, pp. 1443-1461. (doi: 10.1177/17470218231198344)

Marshall, E., Stuart-Smith, J., Butt, J., Dean, T. (2024) Variation and change over time in Standard British Choral Accent (1925-2019) Laboratory Phonology, 15, pp. 1-39. (doi: 10.16995/labphon.10125)

Emmott, C., Alexander, M. (2024) “You see, but you do not observe”: sensory manipulation and sense-making in the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Palgrave Macmillan

Strange, L. (2024) The discursive construction of gender and agency in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum campaign. Critical Discourse Studies, 21, pp. 293-321. (doi: 10.1080/17405904.2022.2150669)

Cohen, C., Carlson, M. T. (2024) Shifting between storage and computation in lexical retrieval: Evidence from pronunciation variation. De Gruyter Mouton

Ashkenazi, S., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J., Foster, M. E. (2024) Goes to the Heart: Speaking the User’s Native Language. (doi: 10.1145/3610978.3640633)

Hannaford, E., Alexander, M. (2024) Linguistic diversity in institutional collections: Beyond preservation to valorisation. International Journal of Language Studies, 18, pp. 91-112. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10475279)

2023

Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E., Smith, J. (2023) English contracted negation revisited: evidence from varieties of Scots. Language, 99, pp. 726-759. (doi: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914192)

Strange, L. (2023) Irish English and national identity in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2023, pp. 167-193. (doi: 10.1515/ijsl-2023-0005)

Alexander, M. (2023) Speech in the British Hansard. John Benjamins

Harris, J., Chiu, F. (2023) Is #sC special? A dichotic listening study of British English and Cypriot Greek initial consonant clusters. UCL Press

Lawson, E., Cleland, J., Stuart-Smith, J., Aitken, B., Beck, J. (2023) A Speech Therapy Animation and Imaging Resource (STAR)

Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Mielke, J. (2023) How Variable are English sibilants?

Lancien, M., Adda-Decker, M., Stuart-Smith, J. (2023) Knowledge-Driven vs Data-Driven Methods for Filtering Acoustic Measures in Phonetics Corpora.

Westerberg, F. E., Lawson, E., Stuart-Smith, J. (2023) Quantifying Tongue-Tip to Upper Incisor Distance in an Ultrasound Tongue Imaging Study of Swedish /i/

Lancien, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Adda-Decker, M. (2023) Using Mahalanobis Distance to Filter Erroneous Vowel Features in Less-Resourced Languages: Application to Quebec French.

Hannaford, E. D., Lewis, R., Hughes, L., Alexander, M. (2023) Our Heritage, Our Stories - DH2023 conference poster.

Hannaford, E., Alexander, M., Hughes, L., Lewis, R. (2023) Our Heritage, Our Stories: Democratising the UK National Collection.

Alexander, M., Broad, J., Hutcheson, J., Struan, A. (2023) A Conductive Alloy: A 'Whole Institution' Approach to Student (Mis)Conduct.

Hughes, L., Alexander, M., Barker, H., Batista-Navarro, R., Hannaford, E. D., Nenandic, G., Willcox, P. (2023) Second Report - Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and Searching Community-Generated Digital Content to Develop the People's National Collection. (doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.8010441)

Kendall, T., Pharao, N., Stuart-Smith, J., Vaughn, C. (2023) Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: theoretical issues in sociophonetics. Journal of Phonetics, 98, (doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101226)

Emmott, C., Alexander, M., Marszalek, A. (2023) Schema theory in stylistics. Routledge

Foster, M. E., Stuart-Smith, J. (2023) Social Robotics Meets Sociolinguistics: Investigating Accent Bias and Social Context in HRI. (doi: 10.1145/3568294.3580063)

Buchanan, E. M. et al. (2023) The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific Data, 10, (doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7)

Balfour, J. (2023) Representing Schizophrenia in the Media: a Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage. Routledge

Allehyani, M., Smith, R., Cohen, C. (2023) Does Learning English Vowels Aid the Perception of English Stress for Learners with Small Vowel Inventory Background?

Ren, X., Cohen, C. (2023) Integration of Multiple Cues in Native and Non-native Speech Perception.

Chiu, F., Bartoševičiūtė, L., Lee, A., Yao, Y. (2023) Perceiving Speech Produced with Face Masks in Competing Talker Environments.

Lee, A., Shinohara, Y., Chiu, F., Mut, T. C. (2023) Perception of Vowel and Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Cantonese, English, French, and Japanese Speakers.

Cohen, C. (2023) The Use of Syntactically Redundant Phonetic Cues in Speech Perception.

2022

Plug, L., Lennon, R., Smith, R. (2022) Measured and perceived speech tempo: Comparing canonical and surface articulation rates. Journal of Phonetics, 95, (doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101193)

Alexander, M., Struan, A. (2022) “In barbarous times and in uncivilized countries”: two centuries of the evolving uncivil in the Hansard Corpus. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 27, pp. 480-505. (doi: 10.1075/ijcl.22016.ale)

Lee, A., Chiu, F., Xu, Y. (2022) Focus perception in Japanese: effects of lexical accent and focus location. PLoS ONE, 17, (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0274176)

Strange, L. (2022) Covid-19 and public responsibility: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of blaming the public during the UK’s third wave. Linguistic Landscape, 8, pp. 168-183. (doi: 10.1075/ll.21034.str)

Dorison, C. A. et al. (2022) In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3, pp. 577-602. (doi: 10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J. (2022) Multidimensional Acoustic Variation in Vowels Across English Dialects. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.sigmorphon-1.8)

Psych. Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collab., (2022) A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2111091119)

Alexander, M., Dallachy, F., Struan, A. (2022) Writing with the Historical Thesaurus of English.

Smith, J., Holmes-Elliott, S. (2022) Tracking linguistic change in childhood: transmission, incrementation, and vernacular reorganization. Language, 98, pp. 98-122. (doi: 10.1353/lan.2021.0087)

Strange, L. (2022) Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan: Gender and the Irish language in the linguistic landscape of Ireland's 2018 abortion referendum. Language in Society, 52, pp. 215-239. (doi: 10.1017/s0047404521001214)

Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., McAuliffe, M., Macdonald, R., Kendall, T. (2022) Managing data for integrated speech corpus analysis in SPeech Across Dialects of English (SPADE) MIT Press Open

Smith, J., Holmes-Elliott, S. (2022) Mapping syntax and the sociolinguistic monitor. Cambridge University Press

Strange, L. (2022) The intersection of nation and gender in the Linguistic Landscape of Ireland’s Eighth Amendment referendum campaign. Linguistic Landscape, 8, pp. 1-31. (doi: 10.1075/ll.20027.str)

Hughes, L., Alexander, M., Barker, H., Batista-Navarro, R., Hannaford, E. D., Nenandic, G., Willcox, P. (2022) First Report - Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection. (doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.7152510)

Smith, J., Aitken, B., Eunson, B., Robinson, M. (2022) Speak for Yersel.

2021

Cohen, C., Nabi, S. W., Higham, C. F., Putnam, M., Kootstra, G. J., van Hell, J. (2021) Individual variation in the structure of bilingual grammars. Language, 97, pp. 752-792. (doi: 10.1353/lan.2021.0064)

Smith, J. (2021) Child language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation. John Benjamins Publishing Company

Wang, K. et al. (2021) A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, pp. 1089-1110. (doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x)

Lawson, E., Stuart-Smith, J. (2021) Lenition and fortition of /r/ in utterance-final position, an ultrasound tongue imaging study of lingual gesture timing in spontaneous speech. Journal of Phonetics, 86, (doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101053)

Plug, L., Smith, R. (2021) The role of segment rate in speech tempo perception by English listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 86, (doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101040)

Ó hÍr, L., Strange, L. (2021) Tiocfaidh Ár Lá, get the brits out, lad: masculinity and nationalism in Irish-language rap videos. Social Semiotics, 31, pp. 466-488. (doi: 10.1080/10350330.2021.1930856)

Tagliamonte, S. A., Smith, J. (2021) Obviously undergoing change: Adverbs of evidentiality across time and space. Language Variation and Change, 33, pp. 81-105. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394520000216)

2020

Strange, L. (2020) Affective and epistemic stance as approaches to educating the public (or not) during ireland's eighth amendment referendum campaign. Bloomsbury Academic

Alexander, M. (2020) A cognitive and quantitative approach to mathematical concretization. Palgrave Macmillan

Balfour, J. (2020) Representation of people with schizophrenia in the British press. Routledge

Adger, D., Smith, J. (2020) Explaining variability in negative concord: A sociosyntactic analysis. Routledge

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J. (2020) Structured speaker variability in Japanese stops: relationships within versus across cues to stop voicing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148, pp. 793-804. (doi: 10.1121/10.0001734)

Sóskuthy, M., Stuart-Smith, J. (2020) Voice quality and coda /r/ in Glasgow English in the early 20th century. Language Variation and Change, 32, pp. 133-157. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394520000071)

Cohen, C., Higham, C. F., Nabi, S. W. (2020) Deep learnability: using neural networks to quantify language similarity and learnability. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3, (doi: 10.3389/frai.2020.00043)

Chiu, F., Rakusen, L.L., Mattys, S.L. (2020) Phonetic categorization and discrimination of voice onset time under divided attention. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, pp. EL484-EL490. (doi: 10.1121/10.0001374)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Fruehwald, J. (2020) Toward “English” phonetics: variability in the pre-consonantal voicing effect across English dialects and speakers. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3, (doi: 10.3389/frai.2020.00038)

Alexander, M., Dallachy, F. (2020) Lexis. Routledge

Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Knowles, T., Macdonald, R., Rathcke, T. (2020) Structured heterogeneity in Scottish stops over the 20th Century. Language, 96, pp. 94-125. (doi: 10.1353/lan.2020.0003)

Smith, R., Rathcke, T. (2020) Dialectal phonology constrains the phonetics of prominence. Journal of Phonetics, 78, (doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2019.100934)

Stuart-Smith, J. (2020) A tale of one city: phonological variation and change over 100+ years of Glasgow English. Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne

Stuart-Smith, J. (2020) Changing perspectives on /s/ and gender over time in Glasgow. Linguistics Vanguard, 6, (doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2018-0064)

Kay, C., Alexander, M., Dallachy, F., Roberts, J., Samuels, M., Wotherspoon, I. (2020) The Historical Thesaurus of English, second edition.

2019

Smith, J., Adger, D., Aitken, B., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E., Gary, T. (2019) The Scots Syntax Atlas.

Emmott, C., Alexander, M. (2019) Manipulation in Agatha Christie's detective stories: rhetorical control and cognitive misdirection in creating and solving crime puzzles. Bloomsbury

Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Smith, J. (2019) Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: the surprising case of Scots. Language, 95, pp. 421-455. (doi: 10.1353/lan.0.0236)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., The SPADE Data Consortium, (2019) Vowel duration and the voicing effect across dialects of English. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 41, (doi: 10.33137/twpl.v41i1.32769)

Chiu, F., Rakusen, L.L., Mattys, S.L. (2019) Cognitive load elevates discrimination thresholds of duration, intensity, and 𝑓₀ for a synthesized vowel. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, pp. 1077-1084. (doi: 10.1121/1.5120404)

McAuliffe, M., Coles, A., Goodale, M., Mihuc, S., Wagner, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Sonderegger, M. (2019) ISCAN: a System for Integrated Phonetic Analyses Across Speech Corpora.

Smith, J., Durham, M. (2019) Sociolinguistic Variation in Children's Language: Acquiring Community Norms. Cambridge University Press

Mielke, J., Thomas, E. R., Fruehwald, J., McAuliffe, M., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., Dodsworth, R. (2019) Age Vectors vs. Axes of Intraspeaker Variation in Vowel Formants Measured Automatically From Several English Speech Corpora.

Stuart-Smith, J., Sonderegger, M., Macdonald, R., Mielke, J., McAuliffe, M., Thomas, E. (2019) Large-scale Acoustic Analysis of Dialectal and Social Factors in English /s/-retraction.

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J. (2019) Structured Speaker Variability in Spontaneous Japanese Stop Contrast Production.

Lawson, E., Stuart-Smith, J. (2019) The Effects of Syllable and Sentential Position on the Timing of Lingual Gestures in /l/ and /r/

Lawson, E., Leplatre, G., Stuart-Smith, J., Scobbie, J. M. (2019) The Effects of Syllable and Utterance Position on Tongue Shape and Gestural Magnitude in /l/ and /r/

Balfour, J. (2019) 'The mythological marauding violent schizophrenic': Using the word sketch tool to examine representations of schizophrenic people as violent in the British press. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 2, pp. 40-64. (doi: 10.18573/jcads.10)

Lawson, E., Stuart-Smith, J., Rodger, L. (2019) A comparison of acoustic and articulatory parameters for the GOOSE vowel across British Isles Englishes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, pp. 4363-4381. (doi: 10.1121/1.5139215)

2018

Smith, J., Holmes-Elliott, S. (2018) The unstoppable glottal: tracking rapid change an iconic British variable. English Language and Linguistics, 22, pp. 323-355. (doi: 10.1017/S1360674316000459)

Emmott, C., Alexander, M. (2018) Reliability, unreliability, reader manipulation and plot reversals: strategies for constructing and challenging the credibility of characters in Agatha Christie's detective fiction. Routledge

Stuart-Smith, J. (2018) Sound perspectives? Speech and speaker dynamics over a century of Scottish English. UCT Press

Alexander, M., Kay, C. (2018) "… all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": Metaphorical connections in the history of English. John Benjamins Publishing Company

Ernestus, M., Smith, R. (2018) Qualitative and quantitative aspects of phonetic variation in Dutch eigenlijk. De Gruyter Mouton

Dunkley, Y., Swift, B., Chiu, F., Warwick, J., Worrall, S. (2018) Making the case for community HIV testing: a comparison of targeted community testing demographics, reactivity and testing frequency across level 2 and 3 services, online self-sampling and community provision within East London. (doi: 10.1111/hiv.12614)

Struan, A., Alexander, M. (2018) The Language and Sentiments of their Times: Teaching the Language of Eighteenth-Century Text.

Holmes-Elliott, S., Smith, J. (2018) Dressing down up north: DRESS-lowering and /l/ allophony in a Scottish dialect. Language Variation and Change, 30, pp. 23-50. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394517000278)

Lawson, E., Stuart-Smith, J., Scobbie, J. M. (2018) The role of gesture delay in coda /r/ weakening: an articulatory, auditory and acoustic study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143, pp. 1646-1657. (doi: 10.1121/1.5027833)

Cohen, C., Kang, S. (2018) Flexible perceptual sensitivity to acoustic and distributional cues. Mental Lexicon, 13, pp. 38-73. (doi: 10.1075/ml.16029.coh)

Nakai, S., Beavan, D., Lawson, E., Leplâtre, G., Scobbie, J. M., Stuart-Smith, J. (2018) Viewing speech in action: speech articulation videos in the public domain that demonstrate the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 12, pp. 212-220. (doi: 10.1080/17501229.2016.1165230)

2017

White, J., Chiu, F. (2017) Disentangling phonological well-formedness and attestedness: an ERP study of onset clusters in English. Acta Linguistica Academica, 64, pp. 513-537. (doi: 10.1556/2062.2017.64.4.2)

Piao, S., Dallachy, F., Baron, A., Demmen, J., Wattam, S., Durkin, P., McCracken, J., Rayson, P., Alexander, M. (2017) A time-sensitive historical thesaurus-based semantic tagger for deep semantic annotation. Computer Speech and Language, 46, pp. 113 - 135. (doi: 10.1016/j.csl.2017.04.010)

Jones Huyck, J., Smith, R. H., Hawkins, S., Johnsrude, I. S. (2017) Generalization of perceptual learning of degraded speech across talkers. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 60, pp. 3334-3341. (doi: 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-H-16-0300)

Alexander, M., Struan, A. (2017) Digital Hansard: Politics and the Uncivil.

Fitzmaurice, S., Robinson, J., Hine, I., Dallachy, F., Rogers, K., Alexander, M., Pidd, M., Mehl, S., Groves, M., Aitken, B. (2017) The Seven Words of the Virgin: Identifying Change in the Discourse Context of the Concept of Virginity in Early Modern English.

Stuart-Smith, J. (2017) Variationist approaches to the influence of the media on language. Routledge

Alexander, C., Stuart-Smith, J., Neocleous, T., Evers, L. (2017) Using Chain Graph Models for Structural Inference With an Application to Linguistic Data.

Stuart-Smith, J., José, B., Rathcke, T., Macdonald, R., Lawson, E. (2017) Changing sounds in a changing city: an acoustic phonetic investigation of real-time change over a century of Glaswegian. Cambridge University Press

Stuart-Smith, J., Lawson, E. (2017) Scotland: Glasgow and the Central Belt. Cambridge University Press

Rathcke, T., Stuart-Smith, J., Torsney, B., Harrington, J. (2017) The beauty in a beast: minimising the effects of diverse recording quality on vowel formant measurements in sociophonetic real-time studies. Speech Communication, 86, pp. 24-41. (doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2016.11.001)

Tani, A., Smith, J. (2017) Introduction. Kaitakusha

Krause, M., Smith, J. (2017) 'I stole it from a letter, off your tongue it rolled': the performance of dialect in Glasgow's indie music scene. Cambridge University Press

Stuart-Smith, J. (2017) Bridging the gap(s): The role of style in language change linked to the broadcast media. Novus Press

Fitzmaurice, S. M., Robinson, J., Alexander, M., Hine, I., Mehl, S., Dallachy, F. (2017) Linguistic DNA: investigating conceptual change in early modern English discourse. Studia Neophilologica, 89, pp. 21-38. (doi: 10.1080/00393274.2017.1333891)

Plug, L., Smith, R. (2017) Phonological Complexity, Segment Rate and Speech Tempo Perception. (doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-987)

Fitzmaurice, S., Robinson, J. A., Alexander, M., Hine, I. C., Mehl, S., Dallachy, F. (2017) Reading into the past. John Benjamins

Alexander, M., Dallachy, F., Rayson, P. (2017) SAMUELS Semantically-Annotated Corpora.

Alexander, M., Davies, M., Dallachy, F. (2017) Semantic EEBO.

(2017) Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Variation.

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Glasgow colleagues are active in individual research in every area of Modern English Language studies, from phonetics and psycholinguistics through grammar and discourse studies to lexicology and semantics. We also have access to numerous large electronic datasets available for exploitation in research, and have generated many of our own, including the SPADE project (Speech Across Dialects of English); the Metaphor Map of English; the Scots Syntax Atlas; and the Seeing Speech project.

A further focus is laboratory research, specifically for phonetics and psycholinguistics. The Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP) operates a well-equipped experimental laboratory, with equipment for high-quality acoustic recording, articulatory analysis, along with systems for eye-tracking and other behavioural experimental methods.

In addition to academic research projects, we excel at applications of our work. The Speak For Yersel project is a public-facing exploration of varieties of Scots and attitudes towards those varieties across Scotland. Variability in Child Speech is a collaborative effort with colleagues in Speech and Language Therapy to understand developmental trajectories in children’s acquisition of language; and the recently-awarded project Discriminating Dialects: Mitigating bias in Automatic Speech Recognition does exactly what its name suggests.