Dr Rosalind Temple

Rosalind A. M. Temple, MA, MPhil (PhD, Wales)
University Lecturer in French Linguistics and Fellow of New College

Research

Ros Temple's research interests lie in the areas of phonetics/phonology and variationist linguistics and the interface between the two, particularly the implications of variability in fine phonetic detail for both phonetic/phonological and variationist theory. She has worked on these topics with reference particularly to French, English and Welsh.

Teaching

Historical and modern French linguistics (Papers IV and V); general linguistics (Paper A). Happy to supervise Linguistics Projects and extended essays (Paper XIV) in all these areas, particularly with relation to Welsh, French and English, but also focussing on other languages.

Graduate Teaching

Ros has supervised postgraduate work in both French and general linguistics, in the areas of phonetics/phonology and variationist sociolinguistics. She has supervised research, for example, on the phonetics of dialect and language contact in Gascony, on sociophonetics and identity in the Polish diaspora in England, on the use of Irish in Ulster, on phonological change in Norwegian and on patterns of variation in the French subjunctive, and on language change in Hong Kong. She is currently co-supervising DPhil theses on variation and identity in Lithuanian in Vilnius and in Bermudian English, as well as on language contact in Brussels.

Publications

'On the rise and fall of modern français régional in the rural Côte d'Or.' In J. Carruthers, M. McLaughlin & O. Walsh (eds, 2024). Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French. Oxford: OUP. Pp. 238-253. DOI:10.1093/oso/9780192894366.003.0012

'Phonetic detail and variationist phonology: the case of (t,d).' Dialectologia 18 (2017), 129-155.

'Probabilistic underspecification in nasal place assimilation.' With John Coleman & Margaret E. Renwick. Phonology 33 (2016), 425-458. doi:10.1017/S0952675716000208

'Systems, prosodies and the phonology of French.' With Alexandra Schladebeck. French Studies LXX (2016), 383-403. DOI: doi:10.1093/fs/knw126

'Where and what is (t,d)? A case study in taking a step back in order to advance sociophonetics.' In C. Celata & S. Calamai (eds, 2014). Advances in Sociophonetics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp.97-136. benjamins.com/#catalog/books/silv.15/main