Stefano Coretta
I am a Lecturer (= Assistant Professor) in the Linguistics and English Language department (LEL) of the University of Edinburgh (UK). I received my PhD degree in linguistics (with a thesis on ultrasound tongue imaging and electroglottography) from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2020. I was a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) from 2019 until 2021, when I joined the University of Edinburgh.
As part of my duties at the UoE LEL department, I develop and teach a statistics and research methods course (QML); provide training for staff and students through topic-specific workshops (STeW); offer statistical support for dissertations, theses and academic research; and conduct research on methodological theory.
My current research focusses on research methods including statistics and Open Research practices (I am a signatory of Commitment to Research Transparency and Open Science and of Open Sciences for a Post-Materialist Science). My past research covered different areas of linguistics, with a focus on phonetology—the study of speech sounds and their relation to Human Language. For more details on my research see Research and my researcher’s Orientation page. You can find a list of research outputs (papers, software, etc) in Output.
My philosophical stance is a syncretic integration of non-dual monism, anti-realism, holism, cosmopsychism, spiritualism, subjective Bayesian epistemology, and ecological awareness. See Orientation for more details. I engage in spiritual practices and pagan magick with a strong elemental basis, and in my free time I enjoy conlanging (the art of constructing artificial languages), watching sci-fi and fantasy movies, playing the recorder and taking care of plants.
Interests
- Phonetology (i.e. Speech, Phonetics, Phonology)
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Language description
- Typology and Diachronic linguistics
- Graphemics
PhD supervision
I am available for PhD supervision on topics from my interests list. Please note that I do NOT supervise projects in applied, developmental linguistics, second language acquisition, English as a second language/TESOL.
