Publications

Under Review / in-progress

• Gibb-Reid, B., Hughes, V. & Wormald, J. (in preparation). Accented authenticityː Towards explainable linguistic phonetic methods to authenticate allegedly deepfake audio.

• Gibb-Reid, B., Cave, J., & Gasparyan, H. (in preparation). An investigation into accent features across singing and speech in a Middlesborough choir community.

• Gibb-Reid, B. & Childs. (in preparation). Exploring teacher perceptions of the use of discourse-pragmatic and lexical dialect features in schools.

Peer-reviewed Papers

• Gibb-Reid, B.,  Hughes, V. & Foulkes, P. (accepted). Exploring the potential of using acoustic patterns extracted from yeah in forensic voice comparison. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. 

• Gibb-Reid, B.,  (2026). Just a way of saying something: Phonetic variation in the word ‘just’. English Language and Linguistics. pp. 1–34, 2026. doi:10.1017/S1360674325100609 . [PDF]

• Gibb-Reid, B. & Diskin-Holdaway, C. (2025) "Yeah, but how?" Operationalizing the functions of the discourse-pragmatic marker yeah. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0085. [PDF].

• Gibb-Reid, B. (2023) Just one word: An analysis of just as a speaker discriminant using various acoustic measures. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3775-3779). Guarant International. [PDF]

• Gibb-Reid, B., Foulkes, P. & Hughes V. (2022) Exploring the phonetic variation of ‘yeah’ and ‘like’. York Papers in Linguistics 2, Issue 18, pp.1-27, December 2022. [PDF]

• Gibb-Reid, B., Foulkes, P., Hughes V. & Walker, T. (2022) Just listen: describing phonetic variation of the word just. Proceedings of the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2022), December, 2022. [PDF]

Other writing

• Wormald, J., Tompkinson, J., Harrington, L., Gibb-Reid, B., Habli, I., Harrison, P., Hughes, V., Paterson, C., Alkhatib, F., & Nielsen, M. (2026). Speech Recognition in Policing. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18926595

• Gibb-Reid, B. (2023). IAFPA 2023 conference report. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 30(2), 293–297. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.27087