Rosey Billington

Nafsan

R Billington, N Thieberger, J 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 ..

The pacific expansion: Optimizing phonetic transcription of archival corpora

R Billington, H Stoakes, N Thieberger

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

For most of the world’s languages, detailed phonetic analyses across different aspects of the sound system do not exist, due in pa..

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

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