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 (for book flyer: 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.

2024. Wiltshire, Caroline and Priyankoo Sarmah. Comparing vowel duration before voiced and voiceless stops in the Indian English of Assamese speakers.  Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 183ASA (POMA) Vol 50.1. 060009. online: https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001941

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

2021. Wiltshire, Caroline & Priyankoo Sarmah. “Voicing contrasts in the stops of Indian English produced by Assamese speakers.” In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 179ASA, vol. 42, no. 1, p. 060003. Acoustical Society of America, 2020. https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/2.0001389

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

Spring 2026 I have office hours Mondays & Wednesdays 4th period (10:40-11:30), and Thursdays by zoom 3:15-4:30. Contact me for the zoom link, or if you are in one of my classes, see your syllabus or the home page of your course on Canvas. In general, the best way to reach me  is by email (wiltshir@ufl.edu).

Office: 4123 Turlington Hall
Phone: (352) 294-7448
Fax: (352) 392-8480
Email:wiltshir@ufl.edu

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