Olga Maxwell

Tense-lax contrasts in Indian English vowels: transfer effects from L1 Telugu at the phonetics-phonology interface

Elinor Payne, Olga Maxwell

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

We investigate the effects of L1 Telugu on tense-lax contrasts in Indian English vowels. While English has a tense-lax contrast in..

Cross-dialectal speech processing: perception of lexical stress by Indian English listeners

Olga Maxwell, Robert Fuchs

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

In English, lexical stress provides essential information guiding lexical activation. However, little is known about the processin..

Second language fluency: re-thinking utterance fluency from a phonetics-phonology interface

Isadora Reynolds Cavallieri, Gillian Wigglesworth, Olga Maxwell

Conference Proceedings  |  2019

Research into second language fluency has called for cross-linguistic studies to rule out measures that can be attributed to intra..

Phonetic exponence of word-level stress in Ashaninka(ARAWAK)

Elena Mihas, Olga Maxwell

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

This quantitative study examines the phonetic exponents of word-level stress in Ashaninka, an Arawak language of Peru, ISO-639-3 c..

Durational variability as a marker of prosodic structure in Indian English(es)

E Payne, O Maxwell

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

This paper presents an analysis of systematic durational variability as a marker of prosodic structure in the speech of university..

Yes/No interrogative intonation of Satipo Ashaninka (Kampa Arawak) of Peru

E Mihas, O Maxwell

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

The paper presents a pioneering analysis of the yes/no interrogative intonation of Satipo Ashaninka, a highly synthetic Kampa Araw..

Pitch accent types and tonal alignment of the accentual rise in Indian English(es)

O Maxwell, E Payne

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

The paper presents an analysis of pitch accent inventory and tonal alignment of the accentual rise in the speech of university edu..

Homogeneity vs heterogeneity in Indian English: Investigating influences of L1 on f0 range

O Maxwell, E Payne, R Billington

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2018): Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies

We present an exploratory analysis of several long-term distributional measures of f0 range in the speech of university-educated s..

The effects of mp3 compression on acoustic measurements of fundamental frequency and pitch range

R Fuchs, Olga Maxwell

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  Speech Prosody 2016

Recordings for acoustic research should ideally be made in a lossless format. However, in some cases pre-existing data may be avai..

A comparison of the acoustics of nonsense and real word stimuli: coronal stops in Bengali

O Maxwell, B BAKER, R Bundgaard-Nielsen, J Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

The placement and acoustic realisation of primary and secondary stress in Indian English

R Fuchs, O Maxwell

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Wubuy coronal stop perception by speakers of three dialects of Bangla.

R Bundgaard-Nielsen, B BAKER, O Maxwell, J Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), Vols 1-5

Tonal alignment of focal accents in two varieties of Indian English

O Maxwell, J Fletcher

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

Phonetic cues to accentual prominence in Bengali English

O MAXWELL, J Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2011  |  Proceeings of the 17th International Congress of Phoenetic Sciences

Marking of focus in Indian English of L1 Bengali speakers

O MAXWELL

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

The acoustic characteristics of diphthongs in Indian English

Olga Maxwell, Janet Fletcher

Journal article  |  2010  |  WORLD ENGLISHES

Acoustic and durational properties of Indian English vowels

O Maxwell, J Fletcher

Journal article  |  2009  |  World Englishes

This paper presents findings of an acoustic phonetic analysis of vowels produced by speakers of English as a second language from ..