Roy Alderton

Roy Alderton is Lecturer in Phonetics at City, University of London's Department of Language and Communication Science. He holds a PhD from Lancaster University (2019) where he investigated sociophonetic variation in adolescent speech communities.

His research examines how phonetic features acquire social meaning across languages and speaker groups. Current projects apply machine learning to identify sociophonetic patterns from formant data. Cross-linguistic work analyzes anticipatory coarticulation in English, French, and German using articulatory and acoustic methods.

Key research themes include:

• Inter-speaker variation in coarticulation
• Social stratification in adolescent speech communities
• Perceptual correlates of phonetic variation
• Data-driven approaches to sociophonetics