Newcastle University

Introduction

As Dean of Research, my role is to develop and manage the Faculty’s research strategy. This involves working closely with academic staff and Research Directors within the Faculty, and ensuring an effective interface with research activity across the University more generally. I work closely with the Faculty's Research Funding Development Manager, Sue Mitchell, and with the Faculty's Business Development team, Kate Morris and Steve Erdal.

My academic expertise lies in the area of phonetics and speech science. My academic base is the Speech & Language Sciences Section in the School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences.

• Docherty GJ, Mendoza-Denton N. Speaker-related variation - sociophonetic factors. In: Cohn, A., Fougeron, C., Huffman, M, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.44-60.
• Foulkes P, Docherty GJ, Jones MJ. Analysing stops. In: Di Paolo,M;Yaeger-Dror,M, ed. Sociophonetics: a student’s guide. London: Routledge, 2010, pp.58-71.
• Docherty GJ, Langstrof C, Foulkes P. Listener evaluation of sociophonetic variability: probing constraints and capabilities. Linguistics 2012. In Press.
• Docherty GJ, Watt D, Llamas C, Hall D, Nycz J. Variation in voice onset time along the Scottish-English border. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences. 2011, Hong Kong.
• Docherty GJ. Prosodic factors and sociophonetic variation: Speech rate and glottal variants in Tyneside English. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 2007, Saarbruecken.
• Mennen I, Schaeffler F, Docherty GJ. A methodological study into the linguistic dimensions of pitch range differences between German and English. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Speech Prosody. 2008, University of Campinas, Brazil: Speech Prosody Studies Group.
• Mennen I, Schaeffler F, Docherty G. Pitching it differently: A comparison of the pitch ranges of German and English Speakers. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 2007, Saarbruecken, Germany.
• Docherty GJ. Phonological innovation in contemporary spoken British English. In: Kirkpatrick, A, ed. The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 59-75.
• Foulkes P, Docherty GJ, Khattab G, Yaeger-Dror M. Sound judgements: perception of indexical features in children’s speech.. In:Preston, D., Niedzielski, N., ed. A Reader in Sociophonetics.Berlin:Mouton,2010, pp. 327-356.
• Docherty GJ, Khattab G. Sociophonetics and Clinical Linguistics. In:Ball, M., Perkins, M., Müller, N., Howard, S., ed. The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics.Oxford:Blackwell Publishing,2008, pp. 603-625.
• Docherty GJ. Speech in its natural habitat: accounting for social factors in phonetic variability. In: Ignacio Hualde, J; Cole, J, ed. Laboratory Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007, pp. 1-35.
• Docherty GJ, Foulkes P, Tillotson J, Watt DJL. On the scope of phonological learning : issues arising from socially-structured variation. In:Goldstein, L., Whalen, D.H., Best, C.T., ed. Laboratory Phonology.Berlin:Mouton de Gruyter,2006, pp. 393-421.
• Foulkes P, Docherty G. The social life of phonetics and phonology. Journal of Phonetics 2006, 34(4), 409-438.
• Docherty GJ, Foulkes P. Glottal variants of /t/ in the Tyneside variety of English. In:Hardcastle, W.J., Mackenzie Beck, J., ed. A Figure of Speech : A Festschrift for John Laver.Mahwah NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc,US,2005, pp. 173-199.
• Foulkes P, Docherty G, Watt D. Phonological variation in child-directed speech. Language 2005. ,81 1 177-206.
• Docherty GJ. Commentary on papers by Remez, Goldinger/Azuma and Local. Journal of Phonetics 2003. ,31 3-4 341-344.
• Watt D, Docherty GJ, Foulkes P. First accent acquisition: a study of phonetic variation in child directed speech. In: 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 2003, Barcelona, Spain.
• Docherty GJ. On the interpretation of speakers' performance: Commentary on papers by Zawaydeh, Silverman, Hayward et al., and Tajima & Port. In: Local, J., Ogden, R., Temple, R, ed. Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.335-349.
• Docherty GJ. Speaker, community, identity: empirical and theoretical perspectives on sociophonetic variation. In: 15th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences. 2003, Barcelona, Spain.
• Docherty GJ, Watt DJL. Chain-shifts. In: Mesthrie, R, ed. Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam; New York: Pergamon, 2002, pp.303-306.
• Docherty GJ, Foulkes P. Variability in (r) production: instrumental perspectives. In: Van de Velde, H., van Hout, R, ed. r-atics: Sociolinguistic, Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics of /r/. Brussels: ILVP, 2002, pp.173-184.
• Foulkes P, Docherty GJ. Variation and change in British English (r). In: Van de Velde, H., van Hout, R, ed. r-atics: Sociolinguistic, Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics of /r/. Brussels: ILVP, 2002, pp.27-43.
• Lowit-Leuschel A, Docherty GJ. Prosodic variation across sampling tasks in normal and dysarthric speakers. Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology 2001, 26(4), 151-164.
• Docherty GJ, Foulkes P. Another chapter in the story of labiodental variants in British English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 2000, 4(1), 30-59.
• Docherty GJ, Foulkes P. Speaker, speech, and knowledge of sounds. In: Burton-Roberts, N., Carr, P., Docherty G, ed. Phonological knowledge: conceptual and empirical issues. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.105-129.
• Docherty GJ, Foulkes P. Instrumental phonetics and phonological variation: case studies from Newcastle upon Tyne and Derby. . In P Foulkes & G Docherty (Eds) Urban Voices: accent studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold, 47-71 1999.
• Docherty GJ, Foulkes P , Milroy L , Milroy J. Descriptive adequacy in phonology: a variationist perspective. . Journal of Linguistics , 33 275-310 1997.
• Foulkes P, Docherty GJ. Phonological variation in the English of England. In: Britain, D, ed. Language in the British Isles. London: Arnold, 2007, pp.52-74.