Stefano Coretta

[ˈsteˑfano koˈrɛtta]

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
University of Edinburgh


I am a Lecturer (= Assistant Professor) in the Linguistics and English Language department of the University of Edinburgh (UK). As part of my duties, I develop and coordinate the statistical curriculum of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees within the department, teach statistics and research methods courses, and provide training for staff and students. 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.

I am available as instructor for a range of Workshops on statistics and research methods and as collaborator on projects or papers requiring the planning and execution of statistical analyses. Get in contact with me for info.

My past and current research covers different areas of linguistics, with a focus on phonetology—the study of speech sounds and their relation to Human Language—and research methods including statistics and Open Science practices (I am a signatory of Commitment to Research Transparency and Open Science and of Open Sciences for a Post-Materialist Science). For more details on my research see Research, Projects, 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.