Stefano Coretta
Senior Teaching Coordinator (Statistics)

- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: s.coretta@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Homepage
Address
- Street
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Room 6.05, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Availability
For office hours, please book an appointment here (university log-in required): https://bit.ly/33BH84L
Background
I first studied Classics with Oriental Studies at the University of Milan (Italy), followed by a Research MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Pavia (Italy). I continued my specialisation in phonetics and phonology at the University of York and obtained a PhD from the University of Manchester.
During my PhD, I developed a strong interest in research methods, statistics and Open Science, which I further cultivated as a post-doc researcher at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing in Munich (Germany).
Qualifications
PhD in Linguistics (The University of Manchester).
Undergraduate teaching
2023-24
- Data Analysis for LEL.
2022-23
- Statistics and Quantitative Methods
- Guided Research Seminar in LEL (Making a language)
- Mini-course on R
Postgraduate teaching
2023-24
- Quantitative Methods for LEL
2022-23
- Statistics and Quantitative Methods
- Guided Research Seminar in LEL (Making a language)
2021-22
- Research Methods in Developmental Linguistics
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
- I am happy to supervise students in any topic within phonetics, laboratory phonology, historical phonetics/phonology, quantitative methods theory and graphemics.
- I have experience with acoustic and articulatory phonetics, using a variety of techniques (acoustic analysis, ultrasound tongue imaging, electroglottography, fMRI) so I am keen to supervise any topic using these techniques. For topics on prosody, please get in touch with my colleagues from the phonetics group.
- My main expertise within acoustic and articulatory phonetics concerns investigations of segmental characteristics like duration, phonation, voice quality, tongue gestures and laryngeal articulations.
- I have research experience with Indo-European languages, Oceanic languages and South American languages but I am keen to supervise projects on other language families (I have a particular interest in language typology and language description, specifically phonetic typology and description).
- I am happy to co-supervise dissertations in other fields within linguistics/language research if they have a very strong quantitative component (including mixed qual/quant methods).
- I am not able to supervise dissertations in developmental linguistics, bi/multilingualism, first or second language acquisition, language pathology. For these fields, please get in touch with my colleagues Antonella Sorace, Mits Ota, Vicky Chondrogianni, among others.
Current PhD students supervised
- Aya Awwad.
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The decline of local anchoring: A quantitative investigation
In:
English Language and Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000047
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Northern Tosk Albanian
In:
Journal of the International Phonetic Association
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100322000044
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Distance vs time: Acoustic and articulatory consequences of reduced vowel duration in Polish
In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 150, pp. 592-607
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005585
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German
In:
Language
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2021.0020
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A cross cultural analysis of early prelinguistic gesture development and its relationship to language development
In:
Child Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13406
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Longer vowel duration correlates with greater tongue root advancement at vowel offset: Acoustic and articulatory data from Italian and Polish
In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000556
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
An exploratory study of voicing-related differences in vowel duration as compensatory temporal adjustment in Italian and Polish
In:
Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, vol. 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.869
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)