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Dr. Chris Montgomery is a Senior Lecturer in Dialectology at the School of English, University of Sheffield, where he has held roles since 2012. Prior to this, he was a Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and completed an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on non-linguists' perceptions of language variation, particularly in northern England and southern Scotland, integrating GIS technologies and sociolinguistic methods. He explores how real-time reactions to regional speech are influenced by salience and stereotypes, emphasizing methodologies like starburst charts and geospatial analysis.
His research interests span perceptual dialectology, folk linguistics, computational sociolinguistics, and the role of borders in linguistic perception. He contributes to interdisciplinary collaborations, applying geographical science techniques to linguistic studies. Dr. Montgomery teaches modules on language variation, regional identity, and language attitudes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of Sociolinguistics and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, and he co-edited volumes like Language and a Sense of Place (2017) and Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology (2016).
Dr. Montgomery’s methodologies include innovative approaches to mapping perceptual dialect landscapes, with a focus on urban and border regions. His recent projects examine insular dialects (e.g., Isles of Scilly) and utilize Twitter data for lexical variation studies. He actively supervises students in perceptual dialectology, computational methods, and sociolinguistic theory.
