Professor of Linguistics
Dugald Stewart Building
3 Charles Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9AD
Tel: +44 131 651 3081
Fax: +44 131 650 6883
bob AT ling DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk
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D. R. Ladd
Professor of Linguistics Dugald Stewart Building 3 Charles Street Edinburgh EH8 9AD Tel: +44 131 651 3081
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Professional activitiesKeywords: Intonation, Prosody, Laboratory Phonology An important part of my professional life is devoted to editorial work. I was Co-Editor of Language and Speech from 1994-2000 and I have been an Associate Editor of Phonology since 1995. I am also on the editorial boards of Linguistics and Journal of Linguistics and frequently review papers for other journals, especially Journal of Phonetics and JASA. |
Local rolesI normally teach phonetics and phonology at various levels, and have supervised PhD students working on a variety of phonetic, phonological, and prosodic topics. We have an active Phonetics and Phonology Research Group. My past PhD students include Haruo Kubozono, Jim Scobbie, Jo Verhoeven, Alex Monaghan, and Ineke Mennen. People I have taught here as undergraduates include April McMahon, Dom Watt, Elizabeth Wonnacott, and Edward Flemming. I was Head of the former Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from 2000-2003. From mid-2001 till the beginning of 2007 I was heavily involved in creating and running the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences (PPLS). I have played a major role in undergraduate curriculum development in Linguistics for most of my 20+ years in Edinburgh, and was convener of the PPLS Undergraduate Studies Committee from 2004 to 2006. Since 1 August 2008 I have been Acting Head of PPLS, filling the gap created by the promotion of our former Head of School April McMahon. This was intended to last for the academic year 2008-09 but continues through the current academic year, until 30 June 2010. |
Caricature by Andrew Ladd.
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| From January 2007 to July 2008 I was on an 18-month research leave funded by an Individual Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. During this time my normal local roles were largely on hold, except for PhD supervision and the Nilotic Prosody project with Bert Remijsen. My stint as Acting Head of School continues to pre-empt many of my usual departmental roles. The Nilotic Prosody project has now been succeeded by a new project on Dinka that forms part of the AHRC's Beyond Text programme. |
Summary CVI have been in Edinburgh since the beginning of 1985. Between the time I finished my PhD at Cornell in 1978 and the time I came to Edinburgh I had a series of one- and two-year jobs in various places in the US and Europe. Since coming to Edinburgh I have also taught at various summer schools and institutes (notably ESSLLI 5 in Lisbon in 1993 and the LSA Institute at Cornell in 1997), and have had visiting affiliations with the Institute for Perception Research (IPO) in Eindhoven (1994), the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (1995), and the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins (2000). For the period 2006-2012 I am a member of the Fachbeirat (Scientific Advisory Council) of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. I am currently interim President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, an international scholarly association which is in the process of being established. |
updated February 2010