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. 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

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