James Kirby
Reader
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 3952
- Email: j.kirby@ed.ac.uk
- Web: http://ling.ed.ac.uk/~jkirby
Address
- Street
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Room 2.09, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
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
- 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
Research activities
Project activity
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Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0 : Implications for laryngeal realism
In:
Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting
Contribution to journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Madurese
In:
Journal of the International Phonetic Association
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100318000257
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Mixed-effects design analysis for experimental phonetics
In:
Journal of Phonetics, vol. 70, pp. 70-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.05.005
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Relating production and perception of L2 tone
Contribution to conference › Poster (Published) -
Inducing a lexicon of sociolinguistic variables from code-mixed text
(6 pages)
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published) -
Onset pitch perturbations and the cross-linguistic implementation of voicing : Evidence from tonal and non-tonal languages
In:
Journal of Phonetics, vol. 71, pp. 326-354
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.09.009
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Model selection and phonological argumentation
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Prosodic systems : Mainland Southeast Asia
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
Singing in tone languages
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
Topic and audience effects on distinctively Scottish vocabulary usage in Twitter data
(10 pages)
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution (Published)