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
- 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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The role of F0 and phonation cues in Cantonese low tone perception
In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 148, pp. EL40-EL45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001523
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Effects of prosodic prominence on obstruent-intrinsic F0 and VOT in German
(5 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-43
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
Acoustic correlates of plosive voicing in Madurese
In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 147, pp. 2779-2790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000992
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Madurese
In:
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, vol. 50, pp. 109-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100318000257
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Towards a comparative history of tonal text-setting practices in Southeast Asia
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0: Implications for laryngeal realism
In:
Yearbook of the PoznaÅ„ Linguistic Meeting, vol. 4, pp. 213–235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/yplm-2018-0009
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Obstruent devoicing and registrogenesis in Chru
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Acoustic analysis of onset voicing in Dzongkha obstruents
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
An acoustic study of Zhajin Gan tone
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published) -
Perception of laryngeal contrast in Madurese
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)