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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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)