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Dr Sam Kirkham

  1. Book
  2. Published

    Introducing Linguistics

    Culpeper, J. (Editor), Malory, B. (Editor), Nance, C. (Editor), Van Olmen, D. (Editor), Atanasova, D. (Editor), Kirkham, S. (Editor) & Casaponsa, A. (Editor), 30/12/2022, 1st ed. London: Routledge. 532 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  3. Journal article
  4. Published

    Discovering dynamical laws for speech gestures

    Kirkham, S., 2/05/2025, In: Cognitive Science. 49, 5, p. 1-40 40 p., e70064.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. E-pub ahead of print

    Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English

    Strycharczuk, P., Kirkham, S., Gorman, E. & Nagamine, T., 25/03/2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Language and Speech.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Scaling laws for nonlinear dynamical models of articulatory control

    Kirkham, S., 28/02/2025, In: JASA Express Letters. 5, 2, p. 1-7 7 p., 025201.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Articulatory phonetics in the market: Combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection

    Nance, C., Dewhurst, M., Fairclough, L., Forster, P., Kirkham, S., Lo, J. J. H., McMonagle, J., Nagamine, T., Parkman, S., Rabani, H., Siem, A., Turton, D. & Wang, D., 31/12/2024, In: Linguistics Vanguard. 10, 1, p. 51-62 12 p., 20.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Towards a dynamical model of English vowels: Evidence from diphthongisation

    Strycharczuk, P., Kirkham, S., Gorman, E. & Nagamine, T., 30/11/2024, In: Journal of Phonetics. 107, 26 p., 101349.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Producing a smaller sound system: Acoustics and articulation of the subset scenario in Gaelic-English bilinguals

    Nance, C. & Kirkham, S., 30/08/2024, In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 27, 4, p. 572-584 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Intonational variation in the North-West of England: The origins of a rising contour in Liverpool

    Nance, C., Kirkham, S., Carroll, L. & Lightfoot, K., 31/12/2022, In: Language and Speech. 65, 4, p. 1007-1033 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Diachronic phonological asymmetries and the variable stability of synchronic contrast

    Kirkham, S. & Nance, C., 30/09/2022, In: Journal of Phonetics. 94, p. 1-14 14 p., 101176.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Phonetic typology and articulatory constraints: The realisation of secondary articulations in Scottish Gaelic rhotics

    Nance, C. & Kirkham, S., 21/09/2022, In: Language. 98, 3, p. 419-460 42 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Acquiring allophonic structure and phonetic detail in a bilingual community: The production of laterals by Sylheti-English bilingual children

    Kirkham, S. & McCarthy, K. M., 1/06/2021, In: International Journal of Bilingualism. 25, 3, p. 531-547 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Dynamic acoustic-articulatory relations in back vowel fronting: Examining the effects of coda consonants in two dialects of British English

    Gorman, E. & Kirkham, S., 1/08/2020, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 148, 2, p. 724-733 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    A typology of laterals in twelve English dialects

    Kirkham, S., Turton, D. & Leemann, A., 20/07/2020, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 148, 1, p. EL72-EL76 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    The acoustics of three-way lateral and nasal palatalisation contrasts in Scottish Gaelic

    Nance, C. & Kirkham, S., 1/05/2020, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 147, 4, p. 2858-2872 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Dialect variation in formant dynamics: The acoustics of lateral and vowel sequences in Manchester and Liverpool English

    Kirkham, S., Nance, C., Littlewood, B., Lightfoot, K. & Groarke, E., 28/02/2019, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 145, 784, p. 784–794 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    An acoustic-articulatory study of bilingual vowel production: advanced tongue root vowels in Twi and tense/lax vowels in Ghanaian English

    Kirkham, S. & Nance, C., 05/2017, In: Journal of Phonetics. 62, p. 65-81 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Ethnicity and phonetic variation in Sheffield English liquids

    Kirkham, S., 04/2017, In: Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 47, 1, p. 17-35 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Constructing multiculturalism at school: negotiating tensions in talk about ethnic diversity

    Kirkham, S., 07/2016, In: Discourse and Society. 27, 4, p. 383-400 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Constructing social meaning in political discourse: phonetic variation and verb processes in Ed Miliband's speeches

    Kirkham, S. & Moore, E., 02/2016, In: Language in Society. 45, 1, p. 87-111 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: class, ethnicity, and social practice

    Kirkham, S., 15/10/2015, In: Language in Society. 44, 5, p. 629-652 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Personal style and epistemic stance in classroom discussion

    Kirkham, S., 08/2011, In: Language and Literature. 20, 3, p. 201-217 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Doctoral Thesis
  25. Published

    Ethnicity, social practice and phonetic variation in a Sheffield secondary school

    Kirkham, S., 2013, Sheffield: University of Sheffield. 323 p.

    Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

  26. Conference contribution/Paper
  27. Forthcoming

    Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination

    Lo, J. J. H., Strycharczuk, P. & Kirkham, S., 19/05/2025, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of Interspeech 2025. Rotterdam: International Speech Communication Association, 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  28. Forthcoming

    Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance

    Dewhurst, M., Collins, J., Lo, J. J. H., Alderton, R. & Kirkham, S., 19/05/2025, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of Interspeech 2025. Rotterdam: International Speech Communication Association, 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  29. Forthcoming

    Phonetic accommodation and inhibition in a dynamic neural field model

    Kirkham, S., Strycharczuk, P., Davies, R. & Welburn, D., 9/05/2025, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Ruggeri, A., Barner, D., Walker, C. & Bramley, N. (eds.). San Francisco, CA, Vol. 47. 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

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