publications
For all publications from our lab please see here.
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Strycharczuk, Patrycja, Sam Kirkham, Emily Gorman & Takayuki Nagamine. submitted. Towards a dynamical model of English vowels: Evidence from diphthongisation. Journal of Phonetics.
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Nance, Claire, Maya Dewhurst, Lois Fairclough, Pamela Forster, Sam Kirkham, Justin Lo, Jessica McMonagle, Takayuki Nagamine, Seren Parkman, Haleema Rabani, Andrea Brink Siem, Danielle Turton & Sarah Wang. submitted. Articulatory phonetics in the Market: Combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection. Linguistics Vanguard.
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Kirkham, Sam. forthcoming. Discovering dynamical models of speech using physics-informed machine learning. Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production.
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Kirkham, Sam & Patrycja Strycharczuk. forthcoming. A dynamic neural field model of vowel diphthongisation. Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production.
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Vaughan-Williams, Katherine, Steven Moran & Sam Kirkham. forthcoming. Dimensions of structure and variability in the human vocal tract. Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production.
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Kirkham, Sam & Maya Zara. 2024. Intergenerational transmission of laterals in Punjabi-English heritage bilinguals. In: Rajiv Rao (ed.) The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages. Cambridge University Press. [pdf] [osf]
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Nance, Claire & Sam Kirkham. 2023. Producing a smaller sound system: Acoustics and articulation of the subset scenario in Gaelic-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition. [doi] [osf]
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Kirkham, Sam, Patrycja Strycharczuk, Emily Gorman, Takayuki Nagamine & Alan Wrench. 2023. Co-registration of simultaneous high-speed ultrasound and electromagnetic articulography for speech production research. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 942-946. [pdf] [github]
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Nance, Claire, Maya Dewhurst, Lois Fairclough, Pamela Forster, Sam Kirkham, Takayuki Nagamine, Danielle Turton & Di Wang. 2023. Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 3597-3601. [pdf] [osf]
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Culpeper, Jonathan, Beth Malory, Claire Nance, Daniel Van Olmen, Dimitrinka Atanasova, Sam Kirkham & Aina Casaponsa (eds). 2022. Introducing Linguistics. London: Routledge. [link]
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Kirkham, Sam & Claire Nance. 2022. Diachronic phonological asymmetries and the variable stability of synchronic contrast. Journal of Phonetics 94(101176): 1-14. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
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Nance, Claire & Sam Kirkham. 2022. Phonetic typology and articulatory constraints: The realization of secondary articulations in Scottish Gaelic rhotics. Language 98(3): 419-460. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
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Nance, Claire, Sam Kirkham, Kate Lightfoot & Luke Carroll. 2022. Intonational variation in the North-West of England: The origins of a rising contour in Liverpool. Language and Speech 65(4): 1007-1033. [doi] [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam. 2022. Urban communities of practice. In Beatrix Busse and Ingo H. Warnke (eds) Handbuch Sprache im urbanen Raum. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 117-136. [doi]
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Kirkham, Sam & Kathleen M. McCarthy. 2021. Acquiring allophonic structure and phonetic detail in a bilingual community: The production of laterals by Sylheti-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism 25(3): 531-547. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
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Gorman, Emily & Sam Kirkham. 2020. Dynamic acoustic-articulatory relations in back vowel fronting: Examining the effects of coda consonants in two dialects of British English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148(2): 724-733. [doi] [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam, Danielle Turton & Adrian Leemann. 2020. A typology of laterals in twelve English dialects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148(1): EL72-EL76. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
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Nance, Claire & Sam Kirkham. 2020. The acoustics of three-way lateral and nasal palatalisation contrasts in Scottish Gaelic. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147(4): 2858-2872. [doi] [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam, Claire Nance, Bethany Littlewood, Kate Lightfoot & Eve Groarke. 2019. Dialect variation in formant dynamics: The acoustics of lateral and vowel sequences in Manchester and Liverpool English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145(2): 784-794. [doi] [pdf] [osf]
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Diskin, Chloé, Deborah Loakes, Rosey Billington, Hywel Stoakes, Simón Gonzalez & Sam Kirkham. 2019. The /el/-/æl/ merger in Australian English: Acoustic and articulatory insights. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [pdf]
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Nance, Claire, Sam Kirkham & Eve Groarke. 2018. Studying intonation in varieties of English: Gender and individual variation in Liverpool. In: Natalie Braber & Sandra Jansen (eds) Sociolinguistics in England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [pdf]
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Nance, Claire & Sam Kirkham. 2018. Phonology. In: Jonathan Culpeper, Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak, Tony McEnery & Francis Katamba (eds) English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Second edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam & Claire Nance. 2017. An acoustic-articulatory study of bilingual vowel production: Advanced tongue root vowels in Twi and tense/lax vowels in Ghanaian English. Journal of Phonetics 62: 65-81. [doi] [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam. 2017. Ethnicity and phonetic variation in Sheffield English liquids. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 47(1): 17-35. [doi] [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam & Emma Moore. 2016. Constructing social meaning in political discourse: Phonetic variation and verb processes in Ed Miliband’s speeches. Language in Society 45(1): 87-111. [doi] [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam. 2016. Constructing multiculturalism at school: Negotiating tensions in talk about ethnic diversity. Discourse & Society 27(4): 383-400. [doi] [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam & Alison Mackey. 2016. Research, relationships and reflexivity: Reflections on two case studies of language and identity. In: Peter De Costa (ed.) Ethics in Applied Linguistics Research: Language Researcher Narratives. London: Routledge, pp. 103-120. [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam. 2015. Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice. Language in Society 44(5): 629-652. [doi] [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam & Jessica Wormald. 2015. Acoustic and articulatory variation in British Asian English liquids. Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 1-5. [pdf]
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Nance, Claire, Sam Kirkham & Eve Groarke. 2015. Intonational variation in Liverpool English. Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 1-5. [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam & Emma Moore. 2013. Adolescence. In: J.K. Chambers & Natalie Schilling (eds) The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Second edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 277-296. [doi] [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam. 2011. The acoustics of coronal stops in British Asian English. Proceedings of the XVII International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 1102-1105. [pdf]
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Kirkham, Sam. 2011. Personal style and epistemic stance in classroom discussion. Language and Literature 20(3): 201-217. [doi] [pdf]