Outputs

Project Final Report

• The Sounds of the City final project report to the Leverhulme trust can be found here

• For a general summary of the Sounds of the City findings, see our report in the Conversation (which was also published by The Guardian), here: http://theconversation.com/is-the-glasgow-accent-being-levelled-out-by-london-dinnae-be-daft-50688

 

Publications:

• Soskuthy, M., & Stuart-Smith, J. (2020). When is sound change more than segmental change? Coda /r/ and voice quality shifts in Glasgow since 1890. Language Variation and Change. 

• Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J. , Knowles, T., Macdonald, R. and Rathcke, T. (2020) Structured heterogeneity in Scottish stops over the 20th Century. Language, 96(1), pp. 94-125. http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/194404/7/194404.pdf

• Stuart-Smith, J. (2020), ‘Changing perspectives on /s/ and gender over time in Glasgow. Linguistics Vanguard, 6(s1), 20180064 through the looking glass.)

• Stuart-Smith, J.  (2018), ‘Sound perspectives? Speech and speaker dynamics over a century of Scottish English’. In: Mesthrie, R. and Bradley, D. (eds.). The Dynamics of Language: Plenary and Focus Lectures from the 20th International Congress of Linguists. UCT Press: Cape Town, pp. 74-92.

• Stuart-Smith, J. , José, B., Rathcke, T., Macdonald, R. and Lawson, E. (2017), ‘Changing sounds in a changing city: an acoustic phonetic investigation of real-time change over a century of Glaswegian’. In: Montgomery, C. and Moore, E. (eds.) Language and a Sense of Place: Studies in Language and Region. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 38-64.

• Stuart-Smith, J. and Lawson, E. (2017), ‘Scotland: Glasgow and the Central Belt’. In: Hickey, R. (ed.) Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English. Series: Studies in English language. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 171-198.

• Rathcke, T., Stuart-Smith, J. , Torsney, B. and 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.  

• Rathcke, T. and Stuart-Smith, J. (2016), ‘On the tail of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Glasgow’. Language and Speech, 59(3), pp. 404-430.

• Stuart-Smith, J., Macdonald, R., José, B., Sóskuthy, M. (2015), ‘A dynamic acoustic view of real-time change in word-final liquids in spontaneous Glaswegian’, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow.

• Stuart-Smith, J., Sonderegger, M., Rathcke, T and Macdonald, R. (2015). The private life of stops: VOT in a real-time corpus of spontaneous Glaswegian. Laboratory Phonology, 6(3-4), 505-549.

• Stuart-Smith, J., Rathcke, T., Sonderegger, M. and Macdonald, R. (2015), ‘A real-time study of plosives in Glaswegian using an automatic measurement algorithm: change or age-grading?’, In E.Torgersen, S.Hårstad, B. Mæhlum & U.Røyneland. Language Variation – European Perspectives V. Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013. Amsterdam/New York: Benjamins. 225-37.

• José, B. and Stuart-Smith, J. (2014). Methodological issues in a real-time study of Glaswegian vowels: Automation and comparability. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts. http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/

• José, B., Stuart-Smith, J., and Timmins, C. (in preparation). In the aftermath of /u/ leaving: a real- and apparent-time acoustic study of the bimoraic monophthongs in Glaswegian over the 20th century.

• Macdonald, R. and Stuart-Smith, J. (in preparation). Real-time change in onset /l/ over four decades of Glaswegian.

• José, B. and Stuart-Smith, J. (in preparation). An Investigation into discourse context comparability in a real-time corpus.

 

Selected Conference Presentations

• the 44th conference of New Ways of Analysing Variation in Toronto, Canada, 22nd-25th October 2015 (paper presentation: “Stability and change in Scottish stops: a real-time study of three acoustic cues in Glaswegian vernacular.“)

• Celebrating 10 years of research on language change in real time (LANCHART at University of Copenhagen), 30th September 2015 (invited paper presentation, “Using big-data techniques to tackle real-time change: The voicing contrast across 100 years of real- and apparent-time in Glaswegian.”)

• the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015) at SECC, Glasgow, 10-14 August 2015 (selected paper presentation for Sociophonetics Discussant session on 14 August, ‘A dynamic acoustic view of real-time change in word-final liquids in spontaneous Glaswegian’).

• the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE8) at the University of Leipzig, 27-29 May 2015 (paper presentation, ‘Internal push or external pull? Real-time variation and change in the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Glasgow’).

• the PAC 2015 Conference at the Université Jean Jaures, Toulouse, 9-13 April 2015 (invited paper presentation, ‘Bring hither the fatted coo! A real-time study of sound change in Glaswegian across the 20th century’).

• the Linguistic Circle, University of Edinburgh, 19 March 2015 (invited paper presentation, ‘Bring hither the fatted coo!’ A real-time study of sound change in Glaswegian across the 20th century.’)

• the 15th Australasian International Speech Science Technology Association (SST2014) conference at the New Zealand Institute for Language Brain and Behaviour, University of Canterbury at ChristChurch, 3-5 December 2014 (invited paper presentation, ‘Twa son, some soldiers, and a city: An investigation of real-time change in Scottish English’).

• the 15th Methods in Dialectology conference in Groningen the Netherlands, 11th-15th August 2014 (paper presentation at the ‘of Vowels and “Systems”’ special session, 12th August: “On the impact of noise on vowel formants”)

• the 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology in Tokyo, Japan, 25th-27th July 2014 (paper presentation: “The private life of stops: VOT in a real-time corpus of spontaneous Glaswegian” and poster “On the tail of Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Glasgow”)

• the 3rd Biennial Workshop on Sound Change in Berkeley, United States, 28th-31st May 2014 (invited paper presentation: “Bring hither the fatted coo – real – time change in Glaswegian over a century“ and poster “Real-time Change in Onset /l/ over Four Decades of Glaswegian”)

• the 10th PAC meeting in Montpellier, France, 26th-27th May 2014 (paper presentation: “Synchronic Models of Language Change vs. Diachronic Data: Insights from a New Real-Time Corpus of Glaswegian Vernacular English“)

• the BAAP meeting in Oxford, UK, 7th-9th April 2014 (paper presentation: “A Sociophonetic Investigation of Word-Initial /l/ over Four Decades of Glaswegian“)

• the Linguistic Society of America 2014 Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, United States, 2nd-5th January 2014 (see poster: “Methodological Issues in a Real-Time Study of Glaswegian Vowels: Automation and Comparability“)

• the 42nd conference on New Ways of Analysing Variation in Pittsburgh, United States, 17th-20th October 2013 (paper presentations:“A Real-Time Study of Plosives in Glaswegian Using an Automatic Measurement Algorithm“ and “Material and Methodological Advances in Sociolinguistics as Applied to a Study of Glaswegian Vernacular English Vowels“)

• the UK Language Variation and Change conference 9 in Sheffield, UK, 2nd-4th September 2013 (paper presentation: “What is happening to the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Glasgow?” and poster presentation: “In the Aftermath of /u/ Leaving. Glaswegian Vowels through Real and Apparent Time“)

• the 7th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe in Trondheim, Norway, June 26th-28th 2013 (paper presentation with Morgan Sonderegger: “A real-time study of plosives in Glaswegian: change or age-grading?”)

• the ExAPP conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, 20th-22nd March 2013 (see poster “Analysis of vowel formants vs spectral shape features in real-time studies of language variation and change“)

• the 41st conference on New Ways of Analysing Variation in Bloomington, United States, 25th-28th October 2012 (see poster “Trying on a new BOOT: acoustic analyses of real-time change in Scottish English /u/“)

• the 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium in Berlin, Germany, 21st-24th August 2012 (see poster “Changing sounds in a changing city? A real-time study of Glaswegian /u/“)

• the 2nd Workshop on Sound Change in Seeon, Germany, 2nd-4th May 2012 (see poster “Best boot forward? A real-time study of Scottish English /u/ over forty years“)

• the BAAP meeting in Leeds UK, 26th-28th March 2012 (see poster “Finding a boot to fit: Acoustic measures of vowel quality in a real-time corpus of Glaswegian vernacular“)