Debbie Loakes

New insights into /el/-/AE l/ merging in Australian English

Penelope Schmidt, Chloe Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS

A merger exists in Australian English in which /el/ is realized as [æl] for a number of speakers, particularly in Victoria. There ..

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..

They Talk Muṯumuṯu: Variable Elision of Tense Suffixes in Contemporary Pitjantjatjara

Sasha Wilmoth, Rebecca Defina, Debbie Loakes

Journal article  |  2021  |  Languages

Vowel elision is common in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara connected speech. It also appears to be a locus of language change, ..

Language Contact and Australian Languages

Jill Vaughan, Debbie Loakes

Book Chapter  |  2020

The Handbook of Language Contact, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for researchers, scholars, and students involved in ..

Sociophonetics of Australian English

Deborah Loakes

Book Chapter  |  2019

This collection provides a detailed account of Australian English by bringing together leading scholars of this English variety.

Individual differences and sound change actuation: evidence from imitation and perception of English /str/

Mary Stevens, Deborah Loakes

Conference Proceedings  |  2019

This study investigates the role of individual differences in the earliest stages of sound change, taking as ..

A sociophonetic analysis of vowels produced by female Irish migrants: Investigating second dialect contact in Melbourne

Chloe Diskin, Deborah Loakes, Joshua Clothier, Ben Volchok

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

We present preliminary results of an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowels produced by five female Irish migrants in Melbourne..

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..

Tracking vowel categorization behaviour longitudinally: a study across three x three year increments (2012, 2015, 2018)

Deborah Loakes, Paola Escudero, Joshua Clothier, John Hajek

Conference Proceedings  |  2019

Longitudinal data provide a unique opportunity to address questions around language change, and speaker/listener behaviour. Proces..

Sociophonetic variablity of postvocalic /t/ in Aboriginal and mainstream Australian English

D Loakes, Kirsty McDougall, Joshua Clothier, John Hajek, Janet Fletcher

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

This paper analyses post-vocalic /t/ variability in controlled speech across two groups, both L1 Aboriginal English and mainstream..