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. For more details on my research interests, past/current research projects, and an overview of meta-models informing my research, check out the Research and Meta-models pages. You can find a list of research outputs (papers, software, etc) in Output.

My philosophical stance is based on a syncretic synthesis of holistic monism, anti-realism, idealism, panpsychism, subjective Bayesian epistemology and ecological awareness. I engage in spiritual practices and pagan magick, 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. Phonetics and 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 or developmental linguistics.