Brian Mott

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About Brian Mott

Areas of interest: phonetics and phonology, dialectology, history of language, semantics, translation, grammar and writing Main areas of research: Aragonese dialectology, the speech of Miranda do Douro (north-east Portugal), English grammar, phonetics and lexicography, contrastive linguistics Brian Mott was a lecturer in Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Barcelona from 1972 to 2016, where he gave courses in Phonetics and Phonology, Semantics and Translation. He was Coordinator of the Linguistics Section of the English Department from 1984 to 1990 and from 2007 to 2010, and a teacher in the independent University Language School (“Escola d’Idiomes Moderns”) for thirty years (English coordinator 1976-1980). From 2004 to 2010 he tutored on the Summer Course in English Phonetics at University College London directed by Professor John Wells. He has an MA in Spanish Studies (Aberdeen, 1969) and a PhD in Spanish Dialectology (Barcelona, 1978). Apart from Spanish and Catalan, which he speaks fluently, he also has a knowledge of French, German and Portuguese, and is currently concentrating on Romanian and Serbian. His PhD is a study of the speech of a Spanish Pyrenean village bordering on France in the Province of Huesca, Aragon, and at present he is writing the second edition of his anthology of Aragonese speech varieties (Nuevas voces de Aragón)and researching into the intonation of Aragonese. In 2015 he published the second edition of his Chistabino (Aragonese) dictionary: Nuevo diccionario chistabino-castellano (Berlin: Logos Verlag). He has also studied the Mirandese dialect spoken in North East Portugal. He has published some twenty books and many articles on all the above areas of specialization. His main extra-academic activity is music. He is a jazz enthusiast and has played bass and sung in various bands. For music samples: https://soundcloud.com/brian-mott-357648132