Professor Jennifer Smith

  • Professor of Sociolinguistics (English Language & Linguistics)

telephone: 01413303171
email: Jennifer.Smith@glasgow.ac.uk

R305 Level 3, English Language, 12 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6825-7118

Research interests

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language Variation and Change
  • Scottish dialects
  • Colonial Englishes
  • Acquisition of variation
  • Narrative analysis
  • Variation and syntactic theory

Biography

Professor Jennifer Smith graduated in Linguistics from Durham (MA) and York (PhD). Her research is in sociolinguistics and language variation and change, focussing on dialect morphosyntax, particularly in varieties of Scots.  She has directed a number of ESRC, AHRC and British Academy funded projects, and has created two major digital resources for the analysis of speech patterns across Scotland, The Scots Syntax Atlas and Speak for Yersel. 

Publications

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Number of items: 47.

2024

Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Smith, J. (2024) Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle: plugging the amn’t gap. Journal of Linguistics, (doi: 10.1017/S0022226724000203) (Early Online Publication)

Smith, J. , Stuart-Smith, J. , Macdonald, R. and Jamieson, E. (2024) Scots and Scottish Standard English. In: Fox, S. (ed.) Language in Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, pp. 151-177. ISBN 9781108477321 (doi: 10.1017/9781108769617.009)

Jamieson, E., Smith, J. , Adger, D., Heycock, C. and Thoms, G. (2024) ‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots. English Language and Linguistics, (doi: 10.1017/S1360674323000679) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Smith, J. (2023) English contracted negation revisited: evidence from varieties of Scots. Language, 99(4), pp. 726-759. (doi: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914192)

2022

Smith, J. and Holmes-Elliott, S. (2022) Tracking linguistic change in childhood: transmission, incrementation, and vernacular reorganization. Language, 98(1), pp. 98-122. (doi: 10.1353/lan.2021.0087)

Smith, J. and Holmes-Elliott, S. (2022) Mapping syntax and the sociolinguistic monitor. In: Christensen, T. K. and Jensen, T. J. (eds.) Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation. Series: Studies in language variation and change. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 58-89. ISBN 9781108492843 (doi: 10.1017/9781108674942.004)

Smith, J. , Aitken, B., Eunson, B. and Robinson, M. (2022) Speak for Yersel. [Website]

2021

Smith, J. (2021) Child language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation. In: Ghimenton, A., Nardy, A. and Chevrot, J.-P. (eds.) Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan. Series: Studies in language variation (26). John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, pp. 12-19. ISBN 9789027209078 (doi: 10.1075/silv.26.01smi)

Tagliamonte, S. A. and Smith, J. (2021) Obviously undergoing change: Adverbs of evidentiality across time and space. Language Variation and Change, 33(1), pp. 81-105. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394520000216)

2020

Adger, D. and Smith, J. (2020) Explaining variability in negative concord: A sociosyntactic analysis. In: Beaman, K. V., Buchstaller, I., Fox, S. and Walker, J. A. (eds.) Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change: In Honour of Jenny Cheshire. Routledge. ISBN 9780429282720 (doi: 10.4324/9780429282720-15)

2019

Smith, J. , Adger, D., Aitken, B., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Gary, T. (2019) The Scots Syntax Atlas. [Website]

Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C. and Smith, J. (2019) Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: the surprising case of Scots. Language, 95(3), pp. 421-455. (doi: 10.1353/lan.0.0236)

Smith, J. and Durham, M. (2019) Sociolinguistic Variation in Children's Language: Acquiring Community Norms. Series: Studies in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107172616 (doi: 10.1017/9781316779248)

2018

Smith, J. and Holmes-Elliott, S. (2018) The unstoppable glottal: tracking rapid change an iconic British variable. English Language and Linguistics, 22(3), pp. 323-355. (doi: 10.1017/S1360674316000459)

Holmes-Elliott, S. and Smith, J. (2018) Dressing down up north: DRESS-lowering and /l/ allophony in a Scottish dialect. Language Variation and Change, 30(1), pp. 23-50. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394517000278)

2017

Tani, A. and Smith, J. (2017) Introduction. In: Tani, A. and Smith, J. (eds.) Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Variation. Series: Studies in the history of the English language (6). Kaitakusha: Tokyo. ISBN 9784758922494

Tani, A. and Smith, J. (Eds.) (2017) Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Variation. Series: Studies in the history of the English language. Kaitakusha: Tokyo. ISBN 9784758922494

Krause, M. and Smith, J. (2017) 'I stole it from a letter, off your tongue it rolled': the performance of dialect in Glasgow's indie music scene. In: Montgomery, C. and Moore, E. (eds.) Language and a Sense of Place. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107098718

2015

Holmes-Elliott, S. and Smith, J. (2015) DRESS-down: /ε/-lowering in apparent time in a rural Scottish community. In: ICPhS 2015: 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK, 10-14 Aug 2015,

Holmes-Elliott, S. and Smith, J. (2015) DRESS-Down: /ε/-lowering in Apparent Tme in a Rural Scottish Community. In: XVIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ICPhS 2015, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 10-14 Aug 2015,

2014

Tagliamonte, S. A., Durham, M. and Smith, J. (2014) Grammaticalization at an early stage: future be going to in conservative British dialects. English Language and Linguistics, 18(01), pp. 75-108. (doi: 10.1017/S1360674313000282)

Iyeiri, Y. and Smith, J. (2014) Introduction. In: Iyeiri, Y. and Smith, J. (eds.) Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Change. Osaka Books: Suita. ISBN 9784990458447

Iyeiri, Y. and Smith, J. (Eds.) (2014) Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Change. Series: Studies in the history of the English language. Osaka Books: Suita. ISBN 9784990458447

Smith, J. (2014) Foreward. In: Lawson, R. (ed.) Sociolinguistics in Scotland. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, xiii-xiv. ISBN 9781137034700

2013

Smith, J. , Durham, M. and Richards, H. (2013) The social and linguistic in the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation. Linguistics, 51(2), pp. 258-324. (doi: 10.1515/ling-2013-0012)

2012

Smith, J. and Durham, M. (2012) Bidialectalism or dialect death? Explaining generational change in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. American Speech, 87(1), pp. 57-88. (doi: 10.1215/00031283-1599959)

Smith, J. (2012) Scots and varieties of Scots. In: Kortmann, B. and Lunkenheimer, K. (eds.) The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110279887

2011

Smith, J. and Durham, M. (2011) A tipping point in dialect obsolescence? Change across the generations in Lerwick, Shetland. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 15(2), pp. 197-225. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00479.x)

Smith, J. (2011) English and Englishes. In: Seargeant, P. and Swann, J. (eds.) English in the World: History, Diversity, Change. Routledge: London, pp. 197-244.

2010

Adger, D. and Smith, J. (2010) Variation in agreement: A lexical feature-based approach. Lingua Volume, 120(5), pp. 1109-1134.

2009

Smith, J. , Durham, M. and Fortune, L. (2009) Universal and dialect-specific pathways of acquisition: Caregivers, children, and t/d deletion. Language Variation and Change, 21(1), pp. 69-95. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394509000039)

2007

Smith, J., Durham, M. and Fortune, L. (2007) "Mam, ma troosers is fa'in doon!" Community, caregiver and child in the acquisition of variation in Scottish dialect. Language Variation and Change, 19(1), pp. 63-99. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394507070044)

Smith, J. (2007) Methods in sociolinguistic research: syntax and morphology. In: Llamas, C., Mullany, L. and Stockwell, P. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415338493

2006

Smith, J., Durham, M. and Fortune, L. (2006) Caregiver and child in the acquisition of (socio)linguistic norms in a Scottish dialect. In: Bamman, D., Magnitskaia, T. and Zaller, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press: Somerville, USA, pp. 572-583. ISBN 9781574730647

Smith, J. and Tagliamonte, S. (2006) Layering, change and a twist of fate: the deontic modality system in English dialects. Diachronica, 23(2), pp. 341-380.

2005

Smith, J. (2005) Narrative in sociolinguistic research. In: Brown, E.K., Asher, R.E. and Simpson, J.M.Y. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9780080442990

Smith, J. (2005) The sociolinguistics of contemporary Scots: evidence from one dialect. In: Kirk, J.M. and Ó Baoill, D. (eds.) Legislation, Literature and Sociolinguistics: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland. Cló Ollscoil na Banríona: Belfast, UK, pp. 112-125. ISBN 9780853898740

Smith, J. and Adger, D. (2005) Variation and the minimalist programme. In: Cornips, L. and Corrigan, K. (eds.) Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social. John Benjamins, pp. 149-178. ISBN 9781588116406

Tagliamonte, S. and Smith, J. (2005) No momentary fancy! The zero 'complementizer' in English dialects. English Language and Linguistics, 9(2), pp. 289-309. (doi: 10.1017/S1360674305001644)

Tagliamonte, S., Smith, J. and Lawrence, H. (2005) English dialects in the British Isles in cross-variety perspective: a base-line for future research. In: Filppula, M. (ed.) Dialects Across Borders: Selected Papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002. Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 87-117. ISBN 9789027247872

Tagliamonte, S., Smith, J. and Lawrence, H. (2005) No taming the vernacular! insights from the relatives in northern Britain. Language Variation and Change, 17(1), pp. 75-112. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394505050040)

Watt, D. and Smith, J. (2005) Language change. In: Ball, M.J. (ed.) Clinical Sociolinguistics. Blackwell: Malden, USA, pp. 101-119. ISBN 9781405112499

2004

Smith, J. (2004) Accounting for vernacular features in a Scottish dialect: relic, innovation, analogy and drift. In: Kay, C., Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (eds.) New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected Papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002. Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, 1. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 177-193. ISBN 9789027247650

2003

Tagliamonte, S. and Smith, J. (2003) Either it isn't or it's not: Neg/aux contraction in British dialects. English World Wide, 23(3), pp. 251-82.

2002

Smith, J. (2002) Negative concord in the old and new world: evidence from Scotland. Language Variation and Change, 13(2), pp. 109-134. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394501132011)

Tagliamonte, S. and Smith, J. (2002) "Either it isn't or it's not": neg/aux contraction in British dialects. English World Wide, 23(2), pp. 251-281. (doi: 10.1075/eww.23.2.05tag)

2001

Smith, J. (2001) "You Ø na hear o' that kind o' things": Negative do in Buckie Scots. English World Wide, 21(2), pp. 231-259. (doi: 10.1075/eww.21.2.04smi)

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Number of items: 47.

Articles

Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Smith, J. (2024) Explaining microvariation using the Tolerance Principle: plugging the amn’t gap. Journal of Linguistics, (doi: 10.1017/S0022226724000203) (Early Online Publication)

Jamieson, E., Smith, J. , Adger, D., Heycock, C. and Thoms, G. (2024) ‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots. English Language and Linguistics, (doi: 10.1017/S1360674323000679) (Early Online Publication)

Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Smith, J. (2023) English contracted negation revisited: evidence from varieties of Scots. Language, 99(4), pp. 726-759. (doi: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914192)

Smith, J. and Holmes-Elliott, S. (2022) Tracking linguistic change in childhood: transmission, incrementation, and vernacular reorganization. Language, 98(1), pp. 98-122. (doi: 10.1353/lan.2021.0087)

Tagliamonte, S. A. and Smith, J. (2021) Obviously undergoing change: Adverbs of evidentiality across time and space. Language Variation and Change, 33(1), pp. 81-105. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394520000216)

Thoms, G., Adger, D., Heycock, C. and Smith, J. (2019) Syntactic variation and auxiliary contraction: the surprising case of Scots. Language, 95(3), pp. 421-455. (doi: 10.1353/lan.0.0236)

Smith, J. and Holmes-Elliott, S. (2018) The unstoppable glottal: tracking rapid change an iconic British variable. English Language and Linguistics, 22(3), pp. 323-355. (doi: 10.1017/S1360674316000459)

Holmes-Elliott, S. and Smith, J. (2018) Dressing down up north: DRESS-lowering and /l/ allophony in a Scottish dialect. Language Variation and Change, 30(1), pp. 23-50. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394517000278)

Tagliamonte, S. A., Durham, M. and Smith, J. (2014) Grammaticalization at an early stage: future be going to in conservative British dialects. English Language and Linguistics, 18(01), pp. 75-108. (doi: 10.1017/S1360674313000282)

Smith, J. , Durham, M. and Richards, H. (2013) The social and linguistic in the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation. Linguistics, 51(2), pp. 258-324. (doi: 10.1515/ling-2013-0012)

Smith, J. and Durham, M. (2012) Bidialectalism or dialect death? Explaining generational change in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. American Speech, 87(1), pp. 57-88. (doi: 10.1215/00031283-1599959)

Smith, J. and Durham, M. (2011) A tipping point in dialect obsolescence? Change across the generations in Lerwick, Shetland. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 15(2), pp. 197-225. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00479.x)

Adger, D. and Smith, J. (2010) Variation in agreement: A lexical feature-based approach. Lingua Volume, 120(5), pp. 1109-1134.

Smith, J. , Durham, M. and Fortune, L. (2009) Universal and dialect-specific pathways of acquisition: Caregivers, children, and t/d deletion. Language Variation and Change, 21(1), pp. 69-95. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394509000039)

Smith, J., Durham, M. and Fortune, L. (2007) "Mam, ma troosers is fa'in doon!" Community, caregiver and child in the acquisition of variation in Scottish dialect. Language Variation and Change, 19(1), pp. 63-99. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394507070044)

Smith, J. and Tagliamonte, S. (2006) Layering, change and a twist of fate: the deontic modality system in English dialects. Diachronica, 23(2), pp. 341-380.

Tagliamonte, S. and Smith, J. (2005) No momentary fancy! The zero 'complementizer' in English dialects. English Language and Linguistics, 9(2), pp. 289-309. (doi: 10.1017/S1360674305001644)

Tagliamonte, S., Smith, J. and Lawrence, H. (2005) No taming the vernacular! insights from the relatives in northern Britain. Language Variation and Change, 17(1), pp. 75-112. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394505050040)

Tagliamonte, S. and Smith, J. (2003) Either it isn't or it's not: Neg/aux contraction in British dialects. English World Wide, 23(3), pp. 251-82.

Smith, J. (2002) Negative concord in the old and new world: evidence from Scotland. Language Variation and Change, 13(2), pp. 109-134. (doi: 10.1017/S0954394501132011)

Tagliamonte, S. and Smith, J. (2002) "Either it isn't or it's not": neg/aux contraction in British dialects. English World Wide, 23(2), pp. 251-281. (doi: 10.1075/eww.23.2.05tag)

Smith, J. (2001) "You Ø na hear o' that kind o' things": Negative do in Buckie Scots. English World Wide, 21(2), pp. 231-259. (doi: 10.1075/eww.21.2.04smi)

Books

Smith, J. and Durham, M. (2019) Sociolinguistic Variation in Children's Language: Acquiring Community Norms. Series: Studies in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107172616 (doi: 10.1017/9781316779248)

Book Sections

Smith, J. , Stuart-Smith, J. , Macdonald, R. and Jamieson, E. (2024) Scots and Scottish Standard English. In: Fox, S. (ed.) Language in Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, pp. 151-177. ISBN 9781108477321 (doi: 10.1017/9781108769617.009)

Smith, J. and Holmes-Elliott, S. (2022) Mapping syntax and the sociolinguistic monitor. In: Christensen, T. K. and Jensen, T. J. (eds.) Explanations in Sociosyntactic Variation. Series: Studies in language variation and change. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 58-89. ISBN 9781108492843 (doi: 10.1017/9781108674942.004)

Smith, J. (2021) Child language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation. In: Ghimenton, A., Nardy, A. and Chevrot, J.-P. (eds.) Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan. Series: Studies in language variation (26). John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, pp. 12-19. ISBN 9789027209078 (doi: 10.1075/silv.26.01smi)

Adger, D. and Smith, J. (2020) Explaining variability in negative concord: A sociosyntactic analysis. In: Beaman, K. V., Buchstaller, I., Fox, S. and Walker, J. A. (eds.) Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change: In Honour of Jenny Cheshire. Routledge. ISBN 9780429282720 (doi: 10.4324/9780429282720-15)

Tani, A. and Smith, J. (2017) Introduction. In: Tani, A. and Smith, J. (eds.) Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Variation. Series: Studies in the history of the English language (6). Kaitakusha: Tokyo. ISBN 9784758922494

Krause, M. and Smith, J. (2017) 'I stole it from a letter, off your tongue it rolled': the performance of dialect in Glasgow's indie music scene. In: Montgomery, C. and Moore, E. (eds.) Language and a Sense of Place. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107098718

Iyeiri, Y. and Smith, J. (2014) Introduction. In: Iyeiri, Y. and Smith, J. (eds.) Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Change. Osaka Books: Suita. ISBN 9784990458447

Smith, J. (2014) Foreward. In: Lawson, R. (ed.) Sociolinguistics in Scotland. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, xiii-xiv. ISBN 9781137034700

Smith, J. (2012) Scots and varieties of Scots. In: Kortmann, B. and Lunkenheimer, K. (eds.) The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110279887

Smith, J. (2011) English and Englishes. In: Seargeant, P. and Swann, J. (eds.) English in the World: History, Diversity, Change. Routledge: London, pp. 197-244.

Smith, J. (2007) Methods in sociolinguistic research: syntax and morphology. In: Llamas, C., Mullany, L. and Stockwell, P. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415338493

Smith, J., Durham, M. and Fortune, L. (2006) Caregiver and child in the acquisition of (socio)linguistic norms in a Scottish dialect. In: Bamman, D., Magnitskaia, T. and Zaller, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press: Somerville, USA, pp. 572-583. ISBN 9781574730647

Smith, J. (2005) Narrative in sociolinguistic research. In: Brown, E.K., Asher, R.E. and Simpson, J.M.Y. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9780080442990

Smith, J. (2005) The sociolinguistics of contemporary Scots: evidence from one dialect. In: Kirk, J.M. and Ó Baoill, D. (eds.) Legislation, Literature and Sociolinguistics: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland. Cló Ollscoil na Banríona: Belfast, UK, pp. 112-125. ISBN 9780853898740

Smith, J. and Adger, D. (2005) Variation and the minimalist programme. In: Cornips, L. and Corrigan, K. (eds.) Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social. John Benjamins, pp. 149-178. ISBN 9781588116406

Tagliamonte, S., Smith, J. and Lawrence, H. (2005) English dialects in the British Isles in cross-variety perspective: a base-line for future research. In: Filppula, M. (ed.) Dialects Across Borders: Selected Papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002. Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 87-117. ISBN 9789027247872

Watt, D. and Smith, J. (2005) Language change. In: Ball, M.J. (ed.) Clinical Sociolinguistics. Blackwell: Malden, USA, pp. 101-119. ISBN 9781405112499

Smith, J. (2004) Accounting for vernacular features in a Scottish dialect: relic, innovation, analogy and drift. In: Kay, C., Horobin, S. and Smith, J.J. (eds.) New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected Papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002. Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, 1. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 177-193. ISBN 9789027247650

Edited Books

Tani, A. and Smith, J. (Eds.) (2017) Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Variation. Series: Studies in the history of the English language. Kaitakusha: Tokyo. ISBN 9784758922494

Iyeiri, Y. and Smith, J. (Eds.) (2014) Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Change. Series: Studies in the history of the English language. Osaka Books: Suita. ISBN 9784990458447

Conference Proceedings

Holmes-Elliott, S. and Smith, J. (2015) DRESS-down: /ε/-lowering in apparent time in a rural Scottish community. In: ICPhS 2015: 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK, 10-14 Aug 2015,

Holmes-Elliott, S. and Smith, J. (2015) DRESS-Down: /ε/-lowering in Apparent Tme in a Rural Scottish Community. In: XVIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ICPhS 2015, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 10-14 Aug 2015,

Website

Smith, J. , Aitken, B., Eunson, B. and Robinson, M. (2022) Speak for Yersel. [Website]

Smith, J. , Adger, D., Aitken, B., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Gary, T. (2019) The Scots Syntax Atlas. [Website]

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Grants

  • 2021-2022: Speak for Yersel: Mapping Scots in the 21st Century Classroom. Arts and Humanities Research Council. Principal Investigator.
  • 2015-2019: The Scots Syntax Atlas. Arts and Humanities Research Council.
  • 2013-2016: One speaker, two dialects: bidialectalism across the generations in a Scottish community. Economic and Social Research Council.
  • 2009-2010: Bidialectalism or dialect death? Young speakers and language change in Lerwick, Shetland. British Academy Research Grant.
  • 2007-2009: Construction des Connaissances  Langagières, Diversité des Usages, Contextes Sociolinguistiques. French National Agency for Research.
  • 2007-2009: Stability vs change in a Shetland dialect: Evidence from three generations of speakers. Economic and Social Research Council.
  • 2007-2008: Do you say hoose or hame? Children and their caregivers in the acquisition of standard and dialect forms in a Scottish community. British Academy Research Grant.
  • 2003-2005: Caregiver, community and child in the acquisition of variation. Economic and Social Research Council.
  • 2002-2003: Caregiver, child and community in acquisition of variable dialect forms. Innovation and Priming Research Fund, University of York. 
  • 1997-2000: From Synchrony to Diachrony in the Evolution of English. Research Studentship, Economic and Social Research Council. 

Supervision

I welcome applications from students working in the area of language variation and change.

Past and present students include:

Eman Abdulrahman Alzahrani: Codeswitching and its functions in bilingual classrooms

Cheery Chien: Changing attitudes toward varieties of English by non-native speakers: A view from Taiwan

Margie Ferguson: The acquisition of dialect in young children

Miriam Krause: Singin’ wi’ a Scots tongue: a study of linguistic variation in Scottish Indie music. 

Sophie Holmes-Elliott: London Calling: assessing the spread of metropolitan features in the south east

Sadie Ryan: Language, Migration and Identity at School: a sociolinguistic study of Polish adolescents in Glasgow

  • Clark, Kris
    Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: An exploration of Lallans…
  • Coeyman, Louis
    Scots language revitalisation in the 21st century
  • Craik Nicoll, Jennifer
    Determinants and impact of wellbeing during university
  • Haj Bakir, Nate
    Isolation, integration, and variation: a sociophonetic study on the role of religion in Sikh and Muslim Glaswegian

Teaching

  • Children and language
  • The Linguistics of Scots
  • Language and Social Media 
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Methods in Linguistic Variation

Research datasets

Jump to: 2020
Number of items: 1.

2020

Smith, J. , Adger, D., Aitken, B., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Thoms, G. (2020) The Scots Syntax Atlas. [Data Collection]

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Additional information

Administration

  • Research Convenor, English Language and Linguistics

External responsibilities

  • External Examiner, including the University of Sheffield, Queen Mary University, London, Lancaster University, Open University. 
  • PhD Examiner, including Newcastle University, Trinity College, Dublin (2014) and Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.
  • Member of the ESRC Virtual College.
  • Assessor for applications to the National Science Foundation and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 
  • Journal article reviewer, including Language Variation & Change, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Linguistics.
  • Monograph reviewer for Mouton, CUP and OUP. 
  • Editorial Board member: Journal of Linguistics

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