Areas of Interest/Research

Phonological theory, second language acquisition, phonetics, syllables and tone; Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Indian English phonology and phonetics.

Major/Recent Publications:

2025. Fuchs, Robert, Caroline Wiltshire. & Priyankoo Sarmah “The role of English in the linguistic ecology of Northeast India”, for Global English in its local multilingual ecologies. in the series Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity. Chapter 13, pp. 91-316. https://doi.org/10.1075/hsld.9

2025. Wiltshire, Caroline. “Stress placement in World Englishes”. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Edited by Kingsley Bolton. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00333

2024. Wiltshire, Caroline. “Indian English: Accents and Attitudes”, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, Vol 53.2: 110-129.

2023. Sarmah, Priyankoo & Caroline Wiltshire, “Acoustic Properties of the monophthongs of Assamese Indian English Speakers, World Englishes (Early View) pp. 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12637

2022. Batais, Saleh & Caroline Wiltshire. “Indonesian phonology and the evidence from loanword adaptation”, The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics, Edited by Chris Shei and Saihong Li London & NY: Routledge, pp. 245-260. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003090205

2020. Wiltshire, Caroline.Uniformity and Variability in the Indian English Accent (Elements in World Englishes). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913768

Contact Information

Fall 2026 I will be on sabbatical but you can always reach me by email (wiltshir@ufl.edu).

Spring 2027 I will be on campus for office hours, and available for meeting by zoom as well; contact me by email to make an appointment.

Office: 4123 Turlington Hall
Fax: (352) 392-8480
Email:wiltshir@ufl.edu

Mailing address:
Linguistics Department
University of Florida
P.O. Box 115454
Gainesville, FL 32611-5454 USA