Dominic Watt
Senior Lecturerdw539@york.ac.uk
+44 01904 432671
Personal webpage: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~dw539/
Research
I was appointed Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science in 2007, and teach mainly on our new MSc programme in that subject. I have an MA(Hons) from Edinburgh and a PhD from Newcastle, and have held teaching and research positions in phonetics, speech acoustics and audiology, phonology and sociolinguistics at universities in Germany and around the UK, including York (2000-2002) and Aberdeen, where I was Director of the Phonetics Laboratory for five years. I have published over thirty articles on phonetics, sociolinguistics and language variation and change, am co-author with Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill of English Accents and Dialects (Hodder, 2005), and co-editor (with Carmen Llamas) of Language and Identities (EUP, forthcoming 2009). I am principal investigator on a 3-year ESRC-funded project Linguistic variation and national identities on the Scottish/English border (AISEB; RES-062-23-0525; £481,843; co-investigators Carmen Llamas and Gerry Docherty) and have research interests in forensic phonetics and acoustics, sociophonetics, first language acquisition, and language variation and change. I also undertake casework involving forensic speech analysis on behalf of JP French Associates.
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