Rosey Billington

Prosodic marking of focus in Nafsan

Janet Fletcher, Rosemary Billington, Nick Thieberger

Conference Proceedings  |  2019

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

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

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..

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

O Maxwell, E Payne, R Billington

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Interspeech 2018

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..

Temporal correlates of Lopit singleton and geminate glides

R BILLINGTON

Conference Proceedings  |  2016

Lexical tone in Lopit

R BILLINGTON

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

‘Advanced Tongue Root’ in Lopit: Acoustic and ultrasound evidence

R BILLINGTON

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

Children's language input: A study of a remote multilingual Indigenous Australian community

Deborah Loakes, Karin Moses, Gillian Wigglesworth, Jane Simpson, Rosey Billington

Journal article  |  2013  |  Multilingua

Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, Concerns and Resolutions for the Classroom

Gillian Wigglesworth, Rosey Billington

Journal article  |  2013  |  Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

Creole speakers and standard language education

G Wigglesworth, R Billington, D Loakes

Journal article  |  2013  |  Language and Linguistics Compass

Speakers of creole languages experience educational disadvantage in schools that teach in the standard language of their region, b..

Location, Location, Location! Regional Characteristics and National Patterns of Change in the Vowels of Melbourne Adolescents

Rosey Billington

Journal article  |  2011  |  Australian Journal of Linguistics

Sustainable data from digital research

Rosemary Billington

Book  |  2011

Rosey Billington Nafsan materials (BR1), Digital collection managed by PARADISEC

R Billington

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