Josh Clothier

Relationships between Comprehension, Strategic Behaviours and Content-Related Aspects of Test Performances in Integrated Speaking Tasks

Kellie Frost, Gillian Wigglesworth, Josh Clothier

Journal article  |  2020  |  LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT QUARTERLY

The use of integrated tasks to test English-speaking skills raises questions about the impact of comprehension on test score outco..

A sociophonetic analysis of vowels produced by female Irish migrants: Investigating second dialect contact in Melbourne

Chloe Diskin, Deborah Loakes, Joshua Clothier, Ben Volchok

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019

We present preliminary results of an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowels produced by five female Irish migrants in Melbourne..

Responding to a TOEFL iBT integrated speaking task: Mapping task demands and test takers' use of stimulus content

Kellie Frost, Josh Clothier, Annemiek Huisman, Gillian Wigglesworth

Journal article  |  2019  |  Language Testing

Integrated speaking tasks requiring test takers to read and/or listen to stimulus texts and to incorporate their content into oral..

Tracking vowel categorization behaviour longitudinally: a study across three x three year increments (2012, 2015, 2018)

Deborah Loakes, Paola Escudero, Joshua Clothier, John Hajek

Conference Proceedings  |  2019

Longitudinal data provide a unique opportunity to address questions around language change, and speaker/listener behaviour. Proces..

Sociophonetic variablity of postvocalic /t/ in Aboriginal and mainstream Australian English

D Loakes, Kirsty McDougall, Joshua Clothier, John Hajek, Janet Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

This paper analyses post-vocalic /t/ variability in controlled speech across two groups, both L1 Aboriginal English and mainstream..

Varietal differences in categorisation of /ɪ e æ/: A case study of Irish and Australian English listeners in Melbourne

Chloé Diskin, Debbie Loakes, Joshua Clothier

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

This paper presents results of a vowel categorisation task of front lax vowels in /hVt/, /hVl/ and /mVl/ contexts, by 12 native Au..

Coronal Stop VOT in Australian English: Lebanese Australians and Mainstream Australian English

Joshua Clothier, Debbie Loakes

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

This paper analyses variability in voice onset time (VOT) in Australian English (AusE) coronal stops, as produced by those of main..

Short vowels in L1 Aboriginal English spoken in Western Victoria

D LOAKES, J Fletcher, J Hajek, J Clothier, B Volchok

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

An Investigation of the /el/-/ae l/ Merger in Australian English: A Pilot Study on Production and Perception in South-West Victoria

Deborah Loakes, Joshua Clothier, John Hajek, Janet Fletcher

Journal article  |  2014  |  Australian Journal of Linguistics

This exploratory study looks at evidence of merger between /el/ and /æl/ in Australian English, and the possible relationship betw..

Identifying /el/-/æl/: A comparison between two regional Australian towns

D Loakes, J Hajek, J Clothier, J Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology