Dr R. Temple
Rosalind A. M. Temple, MA, MPhil (PhD, Wales)
University Lecturer in French Linguistics and Fellow of New College
Address: New College, Oxford OX1 3BN
Email: rosalind.temple@new.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 271978
Research
Ros Temple's research interests lie in the areas of phonetics/phonology and variationist linguistics and the interface between the two, particularly the implications of variability in fine phonetic detail for both phonetic/phonological and variationist theory. She has worked on these topics with reference particularly to French, English and Welsh.
Teaching
Historical and modern French linguistics (Papers IV and V); sociolinguistics (Paper XII); general linguistics (Paper XIII). Happy to supervise Linguistics Projects (Paper XII) and extended essays (Paper XIV) in all these areas, particularly with relation to Welsh, French and English, but also focussing on other languages.
Graduate Teaching
Ros Temple has supervised postgraduate work in both French and general linguistics, in the areas of phonetics/phonology and variationist sociolinguistics. She would particularly welcome expressions of interest in pursuing topics exploring the interaction between the two general areas, especially with reference to French or Welsh. However, she is also open to proposals falling more broadly within her fields of interest. She has recently supervised research on phonological change in Norwegian, on (u)-fronting in English and on patterns of variation in the subjunctive in French, and she is currently supervising a DPhil thesis on language change in Hong Kong.
Publications
'(t,d): the variable status of a variable rule.', Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics., 12 (2009), 145-170, 
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With Alex Imrie, 'A polysystemic view of schwa in the clitic pronouns of French.', in Actes des 5èmes Journées d’Études Linguistiques, 27-28 juin 2007., ed. (Nantes: Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, 2007), 143-148
With Sali Tagliamonte, 'New perspectives on an ol’ variable: (t,d) in British English.', Language Variation & Change, 17 (2005), 281-302
Editor, with John Local and Richard Ogden, Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI. (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)
With Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Janice Carruthers, Problems and Perspectives. Studies in the Modern French Language., Longman Linguistics Library (Harlow: Longman, 2001)
'The interaction between speaker sex and changes in regional patterns of voicing in metropolitan French: a case of over-levelling?', in French Accents, ed. Marie-Anne Hintze & Tim Pooley (London: CILT, 2001), 148-164
'Old wine into new wineskins. A variationist investigation into patterns of devoicing in plosives in the Atlas linguistique de la France.', Transactions of the Philological Society, 98 (2000), 353-294
'Now and then: the evolution of male-female differences in the voicing of consonants in two varieties of French', Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics, 8 (2000), 193-204, Article Weblink