Olga Maxwell

Attitudes towards Indian English among young urban professionals in Hyderabad, India

Olga Maxwell, Chloe Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes

Journal article  |  2021  |  WORLD ENGLISHES

Despite extensive work on the description of Indian English(es), only limited attention has been paid to attitudes towards the var..

The “other” Spanish: Methodological issues in the study of speech timing in Chilean Spanish

I Reynolds, O Maxwell, G Wigglesworth

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody

This paper is a preliminary account of speech rhythm and some phonological properties of Chilean Spanish in spontaneous dialogues...

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

Gillian Wigglesworth, I Reynolds Cavallieri, O Maxwell

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

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

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..