Professor Emeritus James Scobbie FRSE
Professor Emeritus, Queen Margaret University
Professor James M Scobbie (Jim) is an experimental speech scientist (phonetician). At QMU (Edinburgh) for over 30 years, he pursued an applied focus in health and wellbeing as director of the Clinical Audiology Speech and Language Research Centre. He has exploited instrumental technology (especially ultrasound, with Prof Alan Wrench of Articulate Instruments Ltd) to advance theory in phonetics and phonology by analysing detailed variation. He has explored the articulation of Scottish accents with Stuart-Smith (Glasgow), Turk (Edinburgh) and Lawson (Strathclyde), leading to “SeeingSpeech.ac.uk”, as well as studying vowels and consonants in a range of languages. He is married to Kirsty, with two sons, and “noisybrain.blog” presents personal and social genealogy.
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The Autumn/Winter edition of ReSourcE focuses on the broad range of ways that human choose to communicate with each other.
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With the help of ultrasound imaging, join our interactive workshop and see how our tongues shape our speech, accents, and pronunciation.
