Professor Bill Hardcastle FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Summary
Bill Hardcastle has been Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh since 2008. He obtained his PhD in Experimental Phonetics from the University of Edinburgh in 1971 and was Professor of Speech Sciences in the Linguistic Science Department at Reading University before taking up post at QMU in 1993 as Head of the Department of Speech and Language Sciences. His research is mainly in the area of clinical phonetics and his work on speech motor control has been successfully applied to the improved diagnosis and rehabilitation of a range of phonetic and phonological speech disorders. He has received major funding from the MRC, ESRC and EU and in 2006 was awarded the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize of the Foundation for Science and Technology for his contribution to the development of the technique of Electropalatography, a device for recording movements of the tongue during speech. He has served on a number of advisory Panels for research strategy including the Research Policy Advisory Committee of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council and has been a member of two RAE Linguistic Panels. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has received Honorary Degrees from both Edinburgh Napier and Queen Margaret Universities.
Current post
Professor Emeritus, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Past appointments
Queen Margaret University Emeritus Professor Speech Science
2004 -
Queen Margaret University Research Professor and Director of Scottish Centre for Speech and Communication Science Research
2003 -
University of Reading Professor of Speech Sciences
1989 - 1993
University of Kiel Lecturer in Phonetics
1972 - 1974
Publications
Handbook of Phonetic Sciences
Edited by William J. Hardcastle, John Laver and Fiona E. Gibbon - Published in 2010 by Wiley Blackwell
Coarticulation: Theory, Data and Techniques
Edited by William J. Hardcastle and Nigel Hewlett - Published in 1999
Speech Production and Speech Modelling
Edited by William J. Hardcastle and Alain Marchal - Published in 1990 by Springer
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The origins and evolution of language; the interactions between individual cognition, cultural transmission and biological evolution in human populations; art / science collaboration
Professor Daniel Harbour
Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.
