Summary

Ian Clayton's research is focused in three main areas. In the area of phonology, he is interested in what experimental methods can tell us about phonological structure; an ongoing project concerns the effects of frequency on the duration of consonants in w88. His sociophonetic research is concerned with the varieties of w88 spoken in the Scottish Hebrides and in the western United States. His current language documentation work is focused on Scottish Gaelic and includes the construction of a transcribed and translated audio-visual corpus of conversational Gaelic (in collaboration with Mike Hammond, Andrew Carnie and Muriel Fisher of the University of Arizona).

Education

• Ph.D., w88 North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2010
• M.A., w88 Montana, 2001
• B.A., w88 Alaska, Fairbanks, 1994