Professor Jennifer Smith FRSE
Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Glasgow
Jennifer Smith (FRSE FBA) is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Glasgow. Her research focusses on varieties of Scots, and how they vary and change across the generations. She has worked with communities from Ayrshire in the south to Shetland in the north, recording a range of speakers in these areas from three year old children to 90 year old great-grandmothers. She has directed a number of large-scale projects over the years, most recently The Scots Syntax Atlas, a new digital resource for the analysis of dialect diversity across Scotland.
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Resources
New data from Speak for Yersel reveals how Scots pronunciations and sentence structures vary across Scotland.
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Resources
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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Events
An exploration of one of Scotland’s official languages. Hear about the past, present and future of Scots.
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Events
An evening of live readings of poetry and prose with writers Len Pennie, Chris McQueer and Michael Pedersen, as they reflect on how Scots has shaped their writing and stories.
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Hear the stories behind ten remarkable objects and how their features have shed light on the development of Scots and English.
