James Kirby
Honorary Fellow
              - Linguistics and English Language
 - School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
 
Contact details
- Email: j.kirby@ed.ac.uk
 - Web: http://ling.ed.ac.uk/~jkirby
 
Background
James Kirby received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2010, where he worked with Alan Yu and John Goldsmith, and joined the University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in Phonetics in 2011. He has also taught at two consecutive LSA Summer Institutes (2013 and 2015), and was a visiting lecturer at Vietnam National University (Hanoi) in 2014. In 2017, he will teach at the inaugural Chulalongkorn Summer School of Southeast Asian Linguistics in Bangkok.
Responsibilities & affiliations
Research Advisor, Linguistics & English Language
Undergraduate teaching
Office hours: By appointment
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
- Ryan Gehrmann
 - Louis Hendrix
 - William Peralta
 - Esther Lam
 - Philippa Shoemark (School of Informatics)
 
Past PhD students supervised
- Misnadin Misnadin (Lead)
 
Research summary
Phonetics & phonology, sound change, tone and register, language and music, languages of Southeast Asia
