Janet Fletcher

Stop (de)gemination in Veneto Italian: The role of durational correlates.

Angelo Dian, John Hajek, Janet Fletcher

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

This preliminary study investigates a long-assumed but previously untested degemination of stops in the regional variety of Italia..

Phrase-level and edge marking in Drehu

Catalina Torres, Janet Fletcher

Journal article  |  2022  |  GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS

This study investigates prosodic correlates of phrasing in Drehu, an Oceanic language from New Caledonia. The analysis is concerne..

Prosodic phrasing, pitch range and word order variation in Murrinhpatha

Janet Fletcher, Evan Kidd, Hywel Stoakes, Rachel Nordlinger

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

Like many Indigenous Australian languages, Murrinhpatha has flexible word order with no apparent configurational syntax. We analyz..

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 ..

The Autosegmental-Metrical Theory of Intonational Phonology

Amalia Arvaniti, Janet Fletcher

Book Chapter  |  2021

The chapter outlines the basic principles of the autosegmental-metrical (AM) theory of intonational phonology. AM posits that at t..

Nafsan

Rosey Billington, Nick Thieberger, Janet Fletcher

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ASSOCIATION

Nafsan (ISO 639-3: erk, Glottocode: sout2856), also known as South Efate, is a Southern Oceanic language of Vanuatu. It is spoken ..

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..

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..

Nasal coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok: An aerodynamic analysis

Hywel M Stoakes, Janet M Fletcher, Andrew R Butcher

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Bininj Kunwok (BKw), a language spoken in Northern Australia, restricts the degree of anticipatory nasalization, as suggested by p..

Fundamental Frequency and Regional Variation in Lifou French

Catalina Torres, Janet Fletcher, Gillian Wigglesworth

Journal article  |  2020  |  LANGUAGE AND SPEECH

This study presents two experiments aimed at investigating tune-to-text alignment and pitch scaling in Lifou French, a variety spo..