Sam Kirkham
Sam Kirkham has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on Speech & spoken language, English; often with Patrycja Strycharczuk.
OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 15 · 86 works · 582 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
Affiliations
🎓Lancaster UniversityLancaster ·
United Kingdom2012–2026 · 40 papersEmployment since 2012🎓University of ManchesterManchester ·
United Kingdom2026 · 2 papers🎓University of SheffieldSheffield ·
United Kingdom2009–2013 · 2 papersEducation 2009–2013
Fields, topics and concepts
📚 Shelves 8The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksPsychology · 2 worksComputer Science · 1 workMedicine · 1 workPhysiology · 1 workSignal Processing · 1 work
🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 1 workSpeech & spoken language · 1 work
Works by year
2020s
Papers
- Towards a dynamical model of English vowels. Evidence from diphthongisation (2024 · 14 citations)
English phonology usually separates diphthongs, built from two parts, from monophthongs, built from one. Acoustic and articulatory measurements, however, show that the amount of vowel-internal movement varies continuously, so the boundary is hard to state. The authors ask whether diphthongs form a coherent… - AURORA Model of Formant-to-tongue Inversion for Didactic and Clinical Applications (2026)
Phoneticians, clinicians and learners often explain vowel formants with a simple rule: F1 tracks tongue lowering and F2 tracks tongue fronting.
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