James Kirby
Honorary Fellow
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: j.kirby@ed.ac.uk
- Web: http://ling.ed.ac.uk/~jkirby
Background
James Kirby received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2010, where he worked with Alan Yu and John Goldsmith, and joined the University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in Phonetics in 2011. He has also taught at two consecutive LSA Summer Institutes (2013 and 2015), and was a visiting lecturer at Vietnam National University (Hanoi) in 2014. In 2017, he will teach at the inaugural Chulalongkorn Summer School of Southeast Asian Linguistics in Bangkok.
Responsibilities & affiliations
Research Advisor, Linguistics & English Language
Undergraduate teaching
Office hours: By appointment
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
- Ryan Gehrmann
- Louis Hendrix
- William Peralta
- Esther Lam
- Philippa Shoemark (School of Informatics)
Past PhD students supervised
- Misnadin Misnadin (Lead)
Research summary
Phonetics & phonology, sound change, tone and register, language and music, languages of Southeast Asia
Project activity
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Effects of voiceless and pregottalized nasals on F0 in Eastern Khmu (Kmhmu' Am)
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
Special Collection: Individuals, Communities, and Sound Change
Research output: › Anthology (Published) -
Individuals, communities, and sound change: An introduction
(18 pages)
In:
Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, vol. 6, pp. 1-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1630
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Relating production and perception of L2 tone
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886901.010
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Towards a comparative history of tonal text-setting practices in Southeast Asia
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Incorporating tone in the calculation of phonotactic probability
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
Tone-melody matching in tone language singing
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Mainland southeast Asia
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Transphonologization of voicing in Chru: Studies in production and perception
(33 pages)
In:
Laboratory Phonology, vol. 11, pp. 1-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/LABPHON.278
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Letter to the Editor: Towards open data policies in phonetics: What we can gain and how we can avoid pitfalls
(14 pages)
In:
Journal of Speech Sciences, vol. 9, pp. 3-16
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Letter (Published)