Ruaridh Purse [email protected]

Education and Qualifications 2016– Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Dr. Meredith Tamminga

2019 CTL Graduate Teaching Certificate, University of Pennsylvania Center for Teaching and Learning

2012–2016 M.A. (First Class Honours) in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh Dissertation: An Electromagnetic Articulography Perspective on ‘/t,d/ Deletion’ Advisor: Dr. Alice Turk

Publications Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. The envelope of variation for /l/ vocalisation in Philadelphia English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 25(2)

Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. The Articulatory Reality of Coronal Stop ‘Deletion’. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (XIX). Melbourne, Australia

Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. Variable Word-Final Schwa in French: An OT Analysis. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 25(1)

Cardoso, Amanda and Lauren Hall-Lew, Yova Kemenchedjieva, Ruaridh Purse, 2016. Between California and the Pacific Northwest: The Front Lax Vowels in San Francisco English. In Valerie Fridland, Betsy Evans, Tyler Kendall, and Alicia Wassank, eds. Speech in the Western States, Volume 1: The Coastal States, pp. 33–54. Publication of the American Dialect Society. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. DOI: 10.1215/00031283- 3772890

Purse, Ruaridh and Euan McGill, 2016. An Intraspeaker Variation Study of Scottish English /r/ Pharyngealisation. Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers On Variation. 2(2): 36–44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/ls.v2i2.2016

Hall-Lew, Lauren and Amanda Cardoso, Yova Kemenchedjieva, Kieran Wilson, Ruaridh Purse, and Julie Saigusa, 2015. San Francisco English and the California Vowel Shift. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (XVIII). Glasgow, UK

Conference Activity Purse, Ruaridh and Meredith Tamminga, 2019. Evaluating Measures of Lexical Frequency for Sociolinguistic Variation. The 12th UK Conference on Language Variation and Change (UKLVC12). London, UK.

Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. The Articulatory Reality of Coronal Stop 'Deletion'. (talk). The 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS19). Melbourne, Australia.

Purse, Ruaridh, 2019. /t,d/ Deletion: Articulatory Evidence for Categoricity does not Preclude Gradient Effects. (talk). The 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM27). Manchester, UK.

Purse, Ruaridh, 2018. Philadelphia /l/ Vocalisation is Strictly Coda Lenition. (talk). New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47 (NWAV47). New York University, New York City NY.

Purse, Ruaridh, 2018. Variable Word-Final Schwa in French: An OT Analysis. (talk). 42nd Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC42), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpha PA.

Purse, Ruaridh and Alice Turk, 2016. ‘/t,d/ Deletion’: Articulatory Gradience in Variable Phonology. (poster). The 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon15), Cornell University, Ithaca NY.

Hall-Lew, Lauren and Amanda Cardoso, Yova Kemenchedjieva, Kieran Wilson, Ruaridh Purse, and Julie Saigusa, 2015. San Francisco English and the California Vowel Shift. (poster). The 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS18), Glasgow, UK.

Grants and Awards 2016–2021 Benjamin Franklin Fellowship University of Pennsylvania

2019 SAS Dean's Travel Subvention University of Pennsylvania

2016 Excellent Student Abstract Travel Grant The 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon15)

2013 Class Medal for French University of Edinburgh

Teaching Experience Spring 2019 Guest Lecturer on 'Speech Sounds' Intro to Sociolinguistics, Instructor: Meredith Tamminga University of Pennsylvania

Spring 2019 Guest Lecturer on 'Language and Sexual Orientation' Intro to Sociolinguistics, Instructor: Dr. Meredith Tamminga University of Pennsylvania

Spring 2019 Teaching Assistant Intro to Sociolinguistics, Instructor: Dr. Meredith Tamminga University of Pennsylvania

Fall 2018 Exam Proctor with IPA production for transcription Intro to Speech Analysis, Instructor: Dr. Jianjing Kuang University of Pennsylvania

Spring 2018 Guest Lecturer on 'Language and Sexual Orientation' Intro to Sociolinguistics, Instructor: Dr. Meredith Tamminga University of Pennsylvania

Spring 2018 Teaching Assistant Intro to Sociolinguistics, Instructor: Dr. Meredith Tamminga University of Pennsylvania

Fall 2017 Teaching Assistant Sound Structure in Language, Instructor: Dr. Rolf Noyer University of Pennsylvania

Research Positions 2017 Research Assistant Penn Phonetics Laboratory, PIs: Dr. Jianjing Kuang & Dr. Mark Liberman University of Pennsylvania

2014–2015 Research Assistant San Francisco English and the California Vowel Shift, PI: Dr. Lauren Hall-Lew University of Edinburgh

Professional Service 2019– Editor-in-Chief Penn Working Papers in Linguistics University of Pennsylvania

2018–2019 Volume Editor Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 25(2): Selected papers from NWAV47 University of Pennsylvania

2017–2018 Content Chair Penn Linguistics Conference 42 (PLC42) University of Pennsylvania

2017–2018 Colloquium Coordinator Penn Speaker Series in Linguistics University of Pennsylvania

2016– Editorial Board Member Penn Working Papers in Linguistics University of Pennsylvania

2016–2017 Public Relations Penn Linguistics Conference 41 (PLC41) University of Pennsylvania

2015– Editorial Board Member Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Papers in Sociolinguistics

Languages Native English

Advanced French

Intermediate Japanese, Scottish Gaelic

Beginner Mandarin Chinese, German

Programming and IT Proficient R, Praat, Elan, FAVE, AAA, LaTeX

Basic Python, Psychopy, Matlab, Unix