Publications

Ruaridh Purse - Linguistics PhD Candidate

Ruaridh Purse’s publications and conference talks. Including talks and posters presented by Ruaridh Purse. Journal articles and book chapters featuring Ruaridh Purse as an author are also hosted here.


Publications

Chapters & Articles

  • Beddor, Patrice Speeter, Andries Coetzee, Ian Calloway, Stephen Tobin and Ruaridh Purse. 2024. The relation between perceptual retuning and articulatory retructuring: Individual differences in accomodating a novel phonetic variant. Journal of Phonetics 107. [PDF]

  • Krivokapić, Jelena, Mark Tiede, Martha Tyrone, Ruaridh Purse and Jungyun Seo. 2024. The role of prosodic structure in the planning of coordinated speech and manual gestures. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands. [PDF]

  • Seo, Jungyun, Ruaridh Purse and Jelena Krivokapić. 2024. Interaction between speech planning and prosodic structure in English. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands. [PDF]

  • Beddor, Patrice Speeter, Andries Coetzee, Ian Calloway, Stephen Tobin and Ruaridh Purse. 2023. Individuals’ perceptual retuning predicts articulatory accommodation: Implications for sound change. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (XX). Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF]

  • Purse, Ruaridh and Jelena Krivokapić. 2023. The kinematic Properties of prosodic boundaries in conversational turn-taking. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (XX). Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF]

  • Li, Aini, Ruaridh Purse and Nicole Holliday. 2022. Variation in global and intonational pitch settings among Black and white speakers of Southern American English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152, 2617–2628. doi: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014906. [PDF]

  • Purse, Ruaridh, Josef Fruehwald and Meredith Tamminga. 2022. Frequency and morphological complexity in variation. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5839. [PDF]

  • Purse, Ruaridh, Meredith Tamminga and Yosiane White. 2021. Phonological variation and lexical form. In Anna Papafragou, John Trueswell, and Lila Gleitman (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the Mental Lexicon. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [Handbook]

  • Purse, Ruaridh, 2020. The envelope of variation for /l/ Vocalisation in Philadelphia English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 25(2). [PDF]

  • Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. The Articulatory Reality of Coronal Stop ‘Deletion’. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (XIX). Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

  • Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. Variable Word-Final Schwa in French: An OT Analysis. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 25(1). [PDF]

  • Cardoso, Amanda, Lauren Hall-Lew, Yova Kemenchedjieva and Ruaridh Purse, 2016. Between California and the Pacific Northwest: The Front Lax Vowels in San Francisco English. In Valerie Fridland, Betsy Evans, Tyler Kendall, and Alicia Wassink, (eds.) Speech in the Western States, Volume 1: The Coastal States, pp. 33–54. Publication of the American Dialect Society. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [Chapter]

  • Purse, Ruaridh and Euan McGill, 2016. An Intraspeaker Variation Study of Scottish English /r/ Pharyngealisation. Lifespans & StylesUndergraduate Working Papers On Variation, volume 2(2): 36–44. [PDF]

  • Hall-Lew, Lauren, Amanda Cardoso, Yova Kemenchedjieva, Kieran Wilson, Ruaridh Purse, and Julie Saigusa, 2015. San Francisco English and the California Vowel Shift. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (XVIII). Glasgow, UK. [PDF]

 

Conference Activity

  • Krivokapić, Jelena, Mark Tiede, Martha Tyrone, Ruaridh Purse and Jungyun Seo. 2024. The role of prosodic structure in the planning of coordinated speech and manual gestures. Paper presented at Speech Prosody 2024 (SP2024). Leiden, The Netherlands.

  • Seo, Jungyun, Ruaridh Purse and Jelena Krivokapić. 2024. Interaction between speech planning and prosodic structure in English. Paper presented at Speech Prosody 2024 (SP2024). Leiden, The Netherlands.

  • Seo, Jungyun, Ruaridh Purse and Jelena Krivokapić. 2024. The effect of speech planning and prosodic structure on kinematic properties of gesture. Poster presented at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon19). Seoul, Korea.

  • Beddor, Patrice Speeter, Andries Coetzee, Ian Calloway, Stephen Tobin and Ruaridh Purse. 2023. Individuals’ perceptual retuning predicts articulatory accommodation: Implications for sound change. Paper presented at the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS23). Prague, Czech Republic.

  • Purse, Ruaridh and Jelena Krivokapić. 2023. The kinematic properties of prosodic boundaries in conversational turn-taking. Poster presented at the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS23). Prague, Czech Republic.

  • Lee, Yoonjeong, Jelena Krivokapić and Ruaridh Purse. 2022. Temporal organization of cross-modal gestures in prosodic structure. Paper presented at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA183), Nashville TN.

  • Purse, Ruaridh and Jelena Krivokapić. 2022. The effect of turn-taking on the kinematic properties of prosodic boundaries. Poster presented at the 183rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA183), Nashville TN.

  • Purse, Ruaridh. 2022. Duration as a perceptual cue to homophone disambiguation. Poster presented at the 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon18). Virtual.

  • Purse, Ruaridh. 2022. Covariation across morphological classes in English Coronal Stop Deletion. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington DC.

  • Purse, Ruaridh, 2021. Perceptual and articulatory gradience in English Coronal Stop Deletion. Paper presented at the 13th UK Conference on Language Variation and Change (UKLVC13). University of Glasgow, Glasgow UK.

  • Li, Aini, Ruaridh Purse and Nicole Holliday 2021. Do African Americans really have lower voices? Paper presented at the 45th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC45). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA.

  • Purse, Ruaridh and Jianjing Kuang, 2020. Categoricity and gradience in /l/ vocalisation and Continua in the Articulatory Domain. Poster presented at the 17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon17). University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC.

  • Purse, Ruaridh and Jianjing Kuang, 2020. /l/ vocalisation: Categories and continua in the articulatory domain. Paper presented The 2020 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP 2020). University of York, York UK. *CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19*

  • Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. Task effects in the articulation of Coronal Stop Deletion. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48 (NWAV48). University of Oregon, Eugene OR. [Abstract]

  • Purse, Ruaridh and Meredith Tamminga, 2019. Evaluating lexical frequency measures for sociolinguistic variation. Paper presented at the 12th UK Conference on Language Variation and Change (UKLVC12). UCL/QMUL, London UK. [Abstract]

  • Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. The articulatory reality of Coronal Stop ‘Deletion’. Paper presented at the 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS19). Melbourne, Australia. [Abstract] [Slides]

  • Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. /t,d/ Deletion: Articulatory Evidence for categoricity does not preclude gradient effects. Paper presented at the 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM27). University of Manchester, Manchester UK. [Abstract]

  • Purse, Ruaridh, 2018. Philadelphia /l/ vocalisation is strictly coda lenition. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47 (NWAV47), New York University, New York City NY. [Abstract]

  • Purse, Ruaridh, 2018. Variable Word-Final Schwa in French: An OT Analysis. Paper presented at the 42nd Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC42), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpha PA. [Abstract]

  • Purse, Ruaridh and Alice Turk, 2016. ‘/t,d/ Deletion’: Articulatory gradience in variable phonology. Poster presented at the 17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 15), Cornell University, Ithaca NY. [Abstract] [Poster]

  • Hall-Lew, Lauren, Amanda Cardoso, Yova Kemenchedjieva, Kieran Wilson, Ruaridh Purse, and Julie Saigusa, 2015. San Francisco English and the California Vowel Shift. (poster). The 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS18), Glasgow UK. [Poster]