Rosey Billington

A Grammar of Lopit: An Eastern Nilotic Language of South Sudan

Jonathan Moodie, Rosemary Billington

Book  |  2020

In A Grammar of Lopit, Jonathan Moodie and Rosey Billington provide the first detailed description of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic la..

Acoustic evidence for right-edge prominence in Nafsan

Rosemary Billington, Janet Fletcher, Nick Thieberger, Ben Volchok

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Oceanic languages are often described as preferring primary stress on penultimate syllables, but detailed surveys show that many d..

Phonetic evidence for phonotactic change in Nafsan (South Efate)

Rosemary Billington, Nick Thieberger, Janet Fletcher

Journal article  |  2020  |  Italian Journal of Linguistics

Nafsan, an Oceanic language of central Vanuatu, is notable for the complex phonotactic structures it exhibits compared to language..

Prosodic marking of focus in Nafsan

Janet Fletcher, Rosemary Billington, Nick Thieberger

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Prosodic marking of focus in Nafsan

Languages use a variety of means to realise informational structure categories like topicalisation and focus. The interaction betw..

The /el/-/æl/ merger in Australian English: Acoustic and articulatory insights

Chloé Diskin, Debbie Loakes, Rosemary Billington, Hywel Stoakes, Simón Gonzalez, Sam Kirkham

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  The /el/-/æl/ merger in Australian English: Acoustic and articulatory insights

This paper investigates a merger-in-progress of /e/-/æ/ in prelateral contexts for speakers of Australian English in Victoria. Twe..

Building capacity for community-led documentation in Erakor, Vanuatu

Ana Krajinović, Rosey Billington, Lionel Emil, Gray Kaltap̃au, Nick Thieberger

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Building capacity for community-led documentation in Erakor, Vanuatu

Close collaboration between community members and visiting researchers offers mutual benefits, including opportunities for new res..

Pronunciation and Comprehension in English as a Lingua Franca communication: Effect of L1 influence in International Aviation Communication

H Kim, R BILLINGTON

Journal article  |  2018  |  Applied Linguistics

This article explores the issues of pronunciation and comprehension in the English as a lingua franca (ELF) context of pilot–air t..

Acoustic correlates of prominence in Nafsan

R Billington, Janet Fletcher, Nick Thieberger, Ben Volchok

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference

Though Oceanic languages are often described as preferring primary stress on penultimate syllables, many different patterns have b..

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 phonetics and phonology of the Lopit language

R Billington

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2017

This thesis is an investigation of the sound system of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic (Nilo-Saharan) language traditionally spoken in S..