Dr Peter Sundkvist
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D. English Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2004
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 2005-2007
Academic Interests
 Phonetics and phonology (English and General)
 Dialectology, sociolinguistics and language variation
 Shetland dialect, Scottish Standard English as spoken in Shetland; Scandinavian languages,
Germanic languages
 Accents (Swedish and English; regional and social; stage accents)
 Pronunciation pedagogy
Courses Taught in English
 Linguistic Concepts
 English Words and their Structure
 Pragmatics
 Linguistic and Scientific Writing
 Degree Thesis
Publications and Dissertations
Melchers, Gunnel and Peter Sundkvist. (forthcoming). “Shetland and Orkney” In D. Schreier, P.
Trudgill, E. Schneider, and J. P. Williams (eds.) The lesser-known varieties of English. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Sundkvist, Peter. (2007). “The pronunciation of Scottish Standard English in Lerwick, Shetland”.
English World-Wide. 28:1, 1-27.
Sundkvist, Peter. (2004) “The Vowel System of a Shetland Accent of Scottish Standard English: a
segmental analysis”. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stockholm: Stockholms universitet,
Engelska institutionen, pp. xx + 436.
Conference Presentations
Sundkvist, Peter. (2008). “Shetland Vowel Mutation: history, bilingualism, and implications for
phonemic contrast”. The 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Uppsala University, Uppsala,
October 1-3.
Sundkvist, Peter. (2007). “Vowel mutation and the TRAP-PALM contrast in Lerwick, Shetland”. The
Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies, Bergen, Norway, May 24.
Sundkvist, Peter. (2007). “Shetland vowel mutation and the TRAP-PALM contrast in Lerwick,
Shetland”. The Thirteenth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, (GLAC-13), Penn State
University, State College, Pennsylvania, April 15.
Sundkvist, Peter. (2006). “The TRAP-PALM contrast in Lerwick, Shetland: a study of phonological
and morphological factors affecting the potential for a variable Scottish vowel contrast. The Eighth
International Conference on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Islay, Scotland, July 5–8.
Sundkvist, Peter. (2006). “How Scandinavian is Shetland? A comparative phonological study
between the Shetland dialect, Scots, and Scandinavian”. The Twelfth Germanic Linguistics Annual
Conference (GLAC-12), The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, April 28–29.
Sundkvist, Peter. (2005). “Pre-/r/ vowel systems: a comparative study between Shetland and
American English”. The 34th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest,
Lubbock, Texas, October 7–9.
Current Research Project
Shetland phonetics and phonology; Shetland dialect and the pronunciation of Scottish Standard
English in Shetland.
Professional Membership
 Linguistic Association of America
 Society for Germanic Linguistics
 Modern Language Association
 American Psychological Association