Edward J. Marshall, PhD

Research

Edward completed his PhD “Do choirs have accents? A sociophonetic investigation of choral sound” at the University of Glasgow in 2024. His thesis is the first research to use quantitative sociolinguistic methods to analyse recordings of choral singing. His project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (ref: 2284740).

Publications

Marshall, E. J. “Sweet singing in the choi/r/”: How spoken dialect affects choral phonology in Glasgow and Cambridge, Journal of English Linguistics, accepted for publication (February 2026)

Marshall, E. J., Stuart-Smith, J., Butt, J. & Dean, T., (2024) “Variation and change over time in British choral singing (1925–2019)”, Laboratory Phonology 15(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.10125

Marshall, E. J. (2023) O lo/r/d, open thou ou/r/ lips: Rhoticity in choral singing from Glasgow and Cambridge, In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2184-2188). Guarant International. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2023/full_papers/810.pdf

Grants & Awards

My doctoral research was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, AHRC Project Code: 2284740 (10/2019–08/2023). I have a track-record of small grant success including:

  • International Phonetic Association Student Award (08/2023, £600, to attend ICPhS August 2023).
  • University of Glasgow Chancellor’s Fund (2022, £2,000, University of Glasgow Opera Society).
  • School of Critical Studies Strategic Research Support Fund (2021 R2, £500).
  • University of Glasgow Chancellor’s Fund (2020, £1,000, SOS2020)
  • Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Cohort Development Fund (2020, £800, SOS2020)
  • Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences Student-led Training Fund (2020, £500, SOS2020)
  • University of Glasgow College of Arts Collaborative Research Award (2020, £510, SOS2020)
  • University of Glasgow Chancellor’s Fund (2018, £1,600)
  • Christian Kay Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Undergraduate Research in Linguistics 06/2018.