Olga Maxwell

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..

Learning on the Field: L2 Turkish Vowel Production by L1 American English-Speaking NGOs in Turkey

Keryn de Jonge, Olga Maxwell, Helen Zhao

Journal article  |  2022  |  LANGUAGES

This study adopts the Speech Learning Model to investigate the first language (L1) influence as well as the effects of the length ..

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..

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...

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..

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

Gillian Wigglesworth, Isadora Reynolds Cavallieri, Olga 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..