- Alderton, R. (2023). Lauren Hall-Lew, Emma Moore, & Robert J. Podesva (eds.), Social meaning and linguistic variation: Theorizing the third wave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 406. Hb. £95. Language in Society pp. 1–4. doi:10.1017/s0047404523000696.
- Alderton, R. (2022). T‐tapping in Standard Southern British English: An ‘elite’ sociolinguistic variant? Journal of Sociolinguistics, 26(2), pp. 287–298. doi:10.1111/josl.12541.
- Alderton, R. (2020). Perceptions of T-glottalling among adolescents in South East England: A sign of 'chavviness', or a key to 'coolness'? English Today, 36(3), pp. 40–47. doi:10.1017/s0266078420000279.
- Alderton, R. (2020). Speaker Gender and Salience in Sociolinguistic Speech Perception: goose-fronting in Standard Southern British English. Journal of English Linguistics, 48(1), pp. 72–96. doi:10.1177/0075424219896400.
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Roy Alderton is a Lecturer in Phonetics in the Department of Language and Communication Science at City, University of London. His primary expertise is in sociophonetics, but his research interests span a range of topics in phonetics, sociolinguistics, varieties of English and quantitative methods more broadly.
Roy completed his PhD in Linguistics at Lancaster University in 2019, where he investigated the production and perception of sociophonetic variation among secondary school pupils in Hampshire, South East England. He examined how the social meanings of two phonetic variables were constructed and perceived in relation to macro-level social stratification in the community (e.g. gender and social class), as well as micro-level categories such as between friendship groups at school and between state and private-school students.
In 2021-22, Roy worked as a post-doctoral researcher on the AHRC-DFG-funded project 'Speakers, listeners, languages: Variability and contrast in spoken language dynamics' at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, in collaboration with researchers at University College London and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The project used articulatory and acoustic analyses of lip rounding and nasal amplitude to examine inter-speaker and cross-linguistic variation in coarticulation in American English, French and German.
Roy is currently applying machine learning techniques to speech data to identify patterns of sociophonetic variation from vowel formants using a bottom-up, data-driven approach.
Roy is happy to receive proposals for research projects relating to his research interests above, particularly those involving social class and stratification, the speech of adolescents, and data science methods such as mixed-effects modelling and machine learning.
Qualifications
- PhD, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
- MSc, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
- MA, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
- BA (Hons), Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Administrative roles
- Programme Director for MSc Speech and Language Therapy, Sep 2023 – present
- BSc Admissions Tutor, Jan 2023 – present
Employment
- Lecturer in Phonetics, City, University of London, Jan 2023 – present
- Post-doctoral Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sep 2021 – Dec 2022
- University Teacher in Linguistics, University of Sheffield, Sep 2019 – Aug 2020
- Associate Lecturer, Lancaster University, Oct 2015 – Apr 2018