Brett Baker

Same vowels but different contrasts: Mandarin listeners’ perception of English /ei/-/iː/ in unfamiliar phonotactic contexts

Y Wang, RL Bundgaard-Nielsen, BJ Baker, O Maxwell

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Phonetics

The study presented here examines how adult L2 listeners’ L1 phonotactics interferes with L2 vowel perception in different consona..

Accuracy-Latency Association in Discrimination of L2 Vowel Contrasts

Yizhou Wang, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett Baker, Olga Maxwell

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

Native phonotactic interference in L2 vowel processing: Mouse-tracking reveals cognitive conflicts during identification

Y Wang, RL Bundgaard-Nielsen, BJ Baker, O Maxwell

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Regularities of phoneme distribution in a listener's native language (L1), i.e., L1 phonotactics, can at times induce interference..

Australia and New Guinea

Brett Baker, Mark Donohue, Janet Fletcher

Book Chapter  |  2021

This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, with chapters written by leading ..

Japanese Perceptual Epenthesis is Modulated by Transitional Probability

Alexander Kilpatrick, Shigeto Kawahara, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett Baker, Janet Fletcher

Journal article  |  2021  |  Language and Speech

Perceptual epenthesis is the perception of illusory vowels in consonantal sequences that violate native phonotactics. The consensu..

The genetic position of Anindilyakwa

Marie-Elaine van Egmond, Brett Baker

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS

In this paper, we demonstrate that Anindilyakwa, spoken on Groote Eylandt, East Arnhem Land, is genetically closely related to Wub..

Australia and New Guinea

B Baker, M Donohue, J Fletcher

Book Chapter  |  2021

The languages of Australia constitute a single genetic group. They are non-tonal, in that tone is not lexically contrastive in any..

Epenthetic prefixation in Alawa and Marra

M Harvey, B Baker

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Journal of Linguistics

Languages adopt a number of strategies to avoid dispreferred phonotactic structures. The general pattern is that such strategies i..

Pause acceptability indicates word-internal structure in Wubuy

Rikke L Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett J Baker

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cognition

Words in polysynthetic languages, such as the Australian language Wubuy, can be semantically complex and translate into whole phra..

Anti-scope prefix order and zero-marked obliques Unusual outcomes of a grammaticalization pathway

Brett Baker, Mark Harvey

Journal article  |  2020  |  Diachronica

A number of indigenous languages of northern Australia have complex systems of noun class prefixation incorporating the formal rea..