Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus
Dugald Stewart Building
3 Charles Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9AD
Tel: +44 131 650 3950
Fax: +44 131 650 6883
bob DOT ladd AT ed DOT ac DOT uk
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D. R. Ladd
Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus Dugald Stewart Building 3 Charles Street Edinburgh EH8 9AD Tel: +44 131 650 3950
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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. For the period 2006-2012 I am a member of the Fachbeirat (Scientific Advisory Council) of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. Until 2012 I am also serving as the first President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, a newly established international scholarly association. |
Local rolesI have now officially retired, though I expect to remain closely involved with research and supervision for at least the next few years. In updating the following summary of my local roles after my retirement I changed a few present perfect verb forms to simple past but otherwise mostly left it unchanged. During my 26-plus years as a full member of staff here, I taught phonetics and phonology at various levels, supervised PhD students working on a variety of phonetic, phonological, and prosodic topics, and contributed to our active Phonetics and Phonology Research Group. My past PhD students include Haruo Kubozono, Jim Scobbie, Jo Verhoeven, Alex Monaghan, Ineke Mennen, and Sasha Calhoun. People I taught here as undergraduates include April McMahon, Edward Flemming, Dom Watt, Elizabeth Wonnacott, and Peter Graff. 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 played a major role in undergraduate curriculum development in Linguistics for most of my time here, and was convener of the PPLS Undergraduate Studies Committee from 2004 to 2006. From August 2008 through June 2010 I was 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 continued for a second year. |
Caricature by Andrew Ladd. |
| 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 I was also involved in the Nilotic Prosody project with Bert Remijsen. At the conclusion of the Leverhulme Fellowship I moved directly into the Head of School position, then had a year's research leave before retiring (slightly early) at the end of July 2011. The Nilotic Prosody project was succeeded in January 2009 by a new project on Dinka speech and song that forms part of the AHRC's Beyond Text programme. This continues until March 2012. |
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). |
updated October 2011