| James M Scobbie MA MSc PhD
Professor of Speech Science
I've been at QMU since 1993 - and it clearly gets more fun as the years roll by. This page gets out of date - you might have more luck searching for recent publications in pdf form here or maybe in qmu's EResearch repository.
   
Funded projects
on which I am or have been Principal Investigator:
- Looking variation and change
in the mouth: developing the sociolinguistic potential of
Ultrasound Tongue Imaging (ESRC RES-000-22-2032) Jan 2007-Mar
2008. [link to official ESRC site]
- An Edinburgh Speech Production Facility
(EPSRC) April 2007-March 2010.
- Facilities for integrated vocal tract,
face, and upper limb movement and acoustic energy data capture,
and (inter)disciplinary speech and functional motor control
analysis”, (SHEFC Strategic Research Infrastructure
Grant SRIF-3) (2006-2008).
- Linguistic Sound Systems: Phonetics,
Phonology, and their Interface (ESRC Personal Research Fellowship
R000 271195) (2001-2004) [link to official ESRC site]
- Phonetic analysis of intractable childhood
speech disorders (Gannochy Trust) and Telespeech Forth Valley
(Gannochy Trust & Lloyds TSB) (2000-2003)
- The
Scottish vowel-length rule: the phonetics, phonology and
acquisition of a marginal contrast (ESRC Research Grant)
(1997-2001) (cf REGARD) [link to official ESRC site]
As joint grant-holder or similar
- "Open Mouthed or Stiff Upper Lip? Exploring language-Specific Settings in English German Bilinguals" Sonja Schaeffler (PI), Ineke Mennen and James M Scobbie (RES-000-22-3032). 01/09/2008 to 30/04/2010.
And, as research fellow
Teaching
Phonetics, phonology, doctoral
Research
Basically I am a Labphonista with interests
in the acquisition of phonetics and phonology, allophony alternation
and contrast, sociolinguistic laboratory phonology, child
speech, covert contrast, constraint-based phonology, Sardinian
lenition, Scottish English, articulatory phonetics, ultrasound
analysis of the tongue, EMA (electromagnetic articulography)
(EMA photo).
Postgraduate
Supervision
- Catherine Mayo (2000) The
relationship between phonemic awareness and cue weighting
in speech perception: longitudinal and cross-sectional child
studies. Cassie's home page. PhD.
- Ben Matthews (2001) On
Variability and the Acquisition of Vowels in Normally Developing
Scottish Children (18-36 Months). PhD. [available
online in pdf]
- Richard Mullooly (2004) An
articulatory study of phonetics and phonology of alternating
[r] in non-rhotic English. PhD. [available
online in pdf]
- Susanne Fuchs (2005) Articulatory correlates of the voicing
contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German. PhD. [available online in
pdf]
- Olga Goordeeva (2005) Acoustic
Correlates of Word Stress: a Study of Speech Production
of Russian-Scottish Bilingual Children. PhD. [available
online in pdf]
- Natalia Zharkova (2007) An Investigation of Coarticulation Resistance in Speech
Production using Ultrasound. PhD.
- Esther de Leeuw.
- Liesbet Bormans.
- Sylvia Mattl.
- Louise Cotton
Selected
Publications (& Conference Papers which are available
online)
see http://qmu.academia.edu/JimScobbie
In Press & In Preparation
Phonetics/Phonology Interface:
Scottish Vowel Length Rule, External Sandhi, EMA
- Ladd, D. Robert & James M. Scobbie (2003)
External sandhi as gestural overlap? Counter-evidence from
Sardinian. In Local, J., Ogden, R. and Temple, R. (eds.)
Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Chapter 9, 162-180. [pdf of draft]
- Wrench, A.A.
and Scobbie, J.M. (2003) Categorising vocalisation of English
/l/ using EPG, EMA and Ultrasound. In Sallyanne Palethorpe
and Marija Tabain (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International
Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP Sydney), 314-319.
CD-ROM. [pdf]
- Scobbie, James M and Alan A Wrench (2003) An
articulatory investigation of word final /l/ and /l/-sandhi
in three dialects of English. Proceedings of the XVth
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona.
[paper 294 pdf here,
materials here]
- Scobbie, James
M (2003) English /l/: vocalisation from an articulatory
perspective. Invited seminar at UCL, November. [pdf
of presentation]
- Scobbie, James M., Alice E. Turk &
Nigel Hewlett (1999)
Morphemes, Phonetics and Lexical Items: The Case of the
Scottish Vowel Length Rule. Proceedings of the XIVth
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Volume
2: 1617-1620. [pdf]
- Mullooly, Richard, James M Scobbie & Alan
A Wrench (2002)
An EMA study of [r] in non-rhotic English. Poster paper
at Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (Labphon 8)
"Varieties of Phonological Competence", Yale University,
27 - 30 June 2002. [pdf]
- Scobbie, James M and Turk, Alice E (2002)
"An Articulatory (EMA) Study of English Voicing-Based
Differential Vowel Duration". British Association of
Academic Phoneticians (BAAP). Newcastle, England, 25-27
March, 2002. (Poster postscript A3 size/
pdf)
- Scobbie, James M., Nigel Hewlett & Alice
E. Turk. (1999)
Standard English in Edinburgh and Glasgow: the Scottish
vowel length rule revealed. In P. Foulkes and G. Docherty
(eds.) Urban Voices: Variation and Change in British
Accents. Chapter 13, pp230-245. London: Arnold.
- Scobbie, James M. (1995)
What do we do when phonology is powerful enough to imitate
phonetics? Comments on Zsiga. In Bruce Connell & Amalia
Arvaniti (eds.) Phonology and Phonetic Evidence. Papers
in Laboratory Phonology IV, pp 303-315. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Phonetics/Phonology Interface:
Child Speech Disorders, Covert Contrast, Acquisition
- Scobbie, J.M., Wood, S.E. and Wrench,
A.A. Advances in EPG for treatment and research: an illustrative
case study. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 18:
373-389.
- Scobbie, James M., Fiona Gibbon, William J. Hardcastle
& Paul Fletcher (2000)
Covert contrast as a stage in the acquisition of phonetics
and phonology. In Michael Broe and Janet Pierrehumbert (eds.)
Papers in Laboratory Phonology V: Language Acquisition
and the Lexicon, 194-207. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
- Scobbie, James M (2002)
Flexibility in the Face of Incompatible English VOT Systems.
Oral paper presented at Eighth Conference on Laboratory
Phonology (Labphon 8) "Varieties of Phonological Competence",
Yale University, 27 - 30 June 2002. <powerpoint here>
- Bates, Sally A.R., Jocelynne M.M.
Watson and James M. Scobbie (2002)
Context conditioned error patterns in disordered systems.
In Martin Ball and Fiona E. Gibbon (eds.) Vowel Disorders,
145-185. London: Butterworth Heinemann. [partial pdf]
- Scobbie, James M. (2000)
Onset-rime coarticulation in the production of /dai/ and
/stai/ by four year old Scottish English speaking children:
preliminary results. Les Cahiers de l'ICP, Bulletin de
la Communication Parlée 5, 131-141. [pdf]
- Hewlett, Nigel, Ben Matthews &
James M. Scobbie (1999)
Vowel duration in Scottish English speaking children. Proceedings
of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Volume 3: 2157-2160. [pdf]
- Scobbie, James M., Fiona Gibbon,
William J. Hardcastle & Paul Fletcher (1997)
Covert contrast and the acquisition of phonetics and phonology.
In W. Ziegler and K. Deger (eds.) Clinical Phonetics
and Linguistics. Chapter 17, pp147-156. London: Whurr
Publishers.
- Scobbie, James M., Fiona Gibbon,
William J. Hardcastle and Paul Fletcher (1997)
Longitudinal phonological and phonetic analyses of two cases
of disordered /s/+stop cluster acquisition. In Antonella
Sorace Caroline Heycock, and Richard Shillcock (eds.)
Proceedings of the GALA '97 Conference on Language Acquisition,
pp278-283.[pdf]
- Scobbie, James M (1998)
Interactions between the acquisition of phonetics and phonology.
In M. Catherine Gruber, Derrick Higgins, Kenneth Olson and
Tamra Wysocki (eds.) Papers from the 34th Annual Regional
Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume II: The
Panels. 343-358. Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.
[pdf
of draft]
- Scobbie, James M., William J. Hardcastle, Paul
Fletcher & Fiona Gibbon (1995)
Consonant clusters in disordered L1 acquisition: a longitudinal
acoustic study. In K Elenius and P Branderud (eds.) Proceedings
of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Volume 2:706-709. Published by the Congress organisers at
KTH and Stockholm University.[pdf]
Theoretical Phonology:
Contrast Categories & Inventories, Declarative Constraint-Based
Phonology
- Scobbie, James M., and Jane Stuart-Smith
(2006) Quasi-phonemic contrast and the fuzzy inventory:
Examples from Scottish English. QMUC Speech Science
Research Centre Working Papers, WP-8. [pdf]
- Scobbie, James M. (1997)
Autosegmental Representation in a Declarative Constraint-based
Framework. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. Outstanding
Dissertations in Linguistics, Laurence Horn (ed.).
- Scobbie, James M., John S. Coleman
& Steven Bird (1996)
Key aspects of declarative phonology. In Jacques Durand
& Bernard Laks (eds.) Current Trends in Phonology.
Volume 2, pp 685-709. Salford: European Studies Research
Institute, University of Salford.
- Scobbie, James M. (1993)
Constraint violation and conflict from the perspective of
Declarative Phonology. Canadian Journal of Linguistics
38 pp 155-169. Reprinted in Charles Kreidler
(ed.) Phonology: Critical Concepts. Volume IV. From Rules
to Constraints. New York: Routledge. 2000.
Honours projects Supervision
- Linda King (2005) QMUC:
- Kate Bramley (2004) QMUC: A comparison of EPG and ultrasound measurements
of tongue positioning and co-articulation in stop + vowel
syllables.
- Tracy Norquay (2003) QMUC: Is the consonantal system of Orcadian
changing? An apparent-time group study.
- Rosie Beattie (2003) QMUC: (Mis)perceptions
of words spoken by a London area speaker by Scottish children.
- Nicola Arthur (2001) QMUC: Accent accommodation in a 9 year old
child.
- Marie Cluness (2000) QMUC: Shetlandic dialect under different parental
influences.
- Fiona Klemm (2000) QMUC:
Spectral analysis of stop bursts in /st/ and /sk/ of children
with phonological disorder.
- Fiona Kirkpatrick (1998) QMUC: A dialect description of present-day
Orcadian phonology in young Orcadian adults.
- Anne McPhail (1998), University
of Edinburgh: longitudinal acoustic analysis of voice onset
after stops and clusters in a case of phonological disorder
.
- Lesley Baker (1998), University of Edinburgh: longitudinal acoustic
analysis of F2 transitions in a case of phonological disorder.
- Christine MacKenzie (1994), QMUC:
An investigation into the phonetic and phonological development
of normally developing 2;00 - 2;06 year old children, who
are acquiring the Lewis variety of Gaelic.
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