Newcastle University

Introduction

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.

• Mennen I, Schaeffler F, Docherty GJ. Cross-language differences in fundamental frequency range: A comparison of English and German. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2012, 131(3), 2249-2260.
• 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 2013, 51(2), 355-380.
• 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 Judgments: Perception of Indexical Features in Children's Speech. In: Preston, D., Niedzielski, N, ed. A Reader in Sociophonetics. New York: De Gruyter 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: Foulkes P; Docherty G, ed. Urban Voices: accent studies in the British Isles. London: Arnold, 1999, pp.47-71.
• 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.
• Docherty GJ, Watt DJL, Llamas C, Hall DJ, Nycz J. Variation in Voice Onset Time along the Scottish-English Border. In: 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 2011, Hong Kong.