Debbie Loakes

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  |  Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

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..

Pitch accent variation and realization in interactive discourse in Australian English

Janet Fletcher, Debbie Loakes

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

This paper examines pre-nuclear and nuclear pitch accent variation and realization in map task interactions for Standard Australia..

Varietal differences in categorisation of /ɪ e æ/: A case study of Irish and Australian English listeners in Melbourne

Chloé Diskin, Debbie Loakes, Joshua Clothier

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

This paper presents results of a vowel categorisation task of front lax vowels in /hVt/, /hVl/ and /mVl/ contexts, by 12 native Au..

Coronal Stop VOT in Australian English: Lebanese Australians and Mainstream Australian English

Joshua Clothier, Debbie Loakes

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

This paper analyses variability in voice onset time (VOT) in Australian English (AusE) coronal stops, as produced by those of main..

Can you t[ae]ll I'm from M[ae]lbourne? An overview of the DRESS and TRAP vowels before /l/ as a regional accent marker in Australian English

Deborah Loakes, John Hajek, Janet Fletcher

Journal article  |  2017  |  ENGLISH WORLD-WIDE

Short vowels in L1 Aboriginal English spoken in Western Victoria

D LOAKES, J Fletcher, J Hajek, J Clothier, B Volchok

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

Intonational correlates of subject and object realisation in Mawng (Australian)

J FLETCHER, H Stoakes, R Singer, D Loakes

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

A range of intonational devices can be used in the grammar of information and corrective focus marking in languages with relativel..

Vowels in Wunambal, a Language of the North West Kimberley Region

Deborah Loakes, Therese Carr, Lauren Gawne, Gillian Wigglesworth

Journal article  |  2015  |  Australian Journal of Linguistics

Child-caregiver interaction in two remote Indigenous Australian communities

J VAUGHAN, G Wigglesworth, D Loakes, S Disbray, K Moses

Journal article  |  2015  |  Frontiers in Psychology

This paper reports on a study in two remote multilingual Indigenous Australian communities: Yakanarra in the Kimberley region of W..

Accentual prominence and consonant lengthening and strengthening in Mawng

J Fletcher, H Stoakes, D Loakes, R Singer

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

An Investigation of the /el/-/ae l/ Merger in Australian English: A Pilot Study on Production and Perception in South-West Victoria

Deborah Loakes, Joshua Clothier, John Hajek, Janet Fletcher

Journal article  |  2014  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS

An electro-palatographic study of consonant sequences in Iwaidja

J FLETCHER, D Loakes, A Butcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

Identifying /el/-/æl/: A comparison between two regional Australian towns

D Loakes, J Hajek, J Clothier, J Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

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

From IPA to Praat and beyond

DE Loakes

Book Chapter  |  2013

Writing Aboriginal English & creoles: Five case studies in Australian education contexts

S Disbray, D Loakes

Journal article  |  2013  |  Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

Texts in Aboriginal English (AE) and creole varieties have been created by Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers for a range of pu..

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..

Sound Change in Australian English: Preliminary Results

E LEWIS, DE Loakes

Conference Proceedings  |  2012  |  Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

Vowel perception in Victoria: variability, confusability and listener expectation

DE Loakes, N GRAETZER, JT Hajek, J Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2012  |  Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology.

Developing Tests for the Assessment of Traditional Language Skill: A Case Study in an Indigenous Australian Community

Deborah Loakes, Karin Moses, Jane Simpson, Gillian Wigglesworth

Journal article  |  2012  |  Language Assessment Quarterly

Naplan language assessments for Indigenous children in remote communities: Issues and problems

G Wigglesworth, J Simpson, D Loakes

Journal article  |  2011  |  Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

The National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assessments are designed to assess literacy and numeracy of all A..

/æl/-/el/ transposition in Australian English: Hypercorrection or a competing sound change?

DE Loakes, JT Hajek, J Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2011  |  Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Issues in the perception of the /el/ ~ /ael/ contrast in Melbourne: Perception, production and lexical frequency effects

DEL Loakes, JTH Hajek, J Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

Interpreting rising intonation in Australian English

J FLETCHER, D LOAKES

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Speech Prosody 2010

(Mis)perceiving /el/ ~ /æl/ in Melbourne English: a micro-analysis of sound perception and change

DEL Loakes, JTH Hajek, JF Fletcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

The /el/-/æl/ sound change in Australian English: A preliminary perception experiment.

D LOAKES, J HAJEK, J FLETCHER

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society

The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC)

M Wagner, D Tran, R Togneri, P Rose, D Powers, M Onslow, DEL Loakes, T Lewis, T Kuratate, Y Kinoshita, N Kemp, S Ishihara, J Ingram, JTH Hajek, DBG Grayden, R Gocke, JF Fletcher, D Estival, J Epps, R Dale, et al.

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010

Individual Variation in the Frication of Voiceless Plosives in Australian English: A Study of Twins' Speech

Deborah Loakes, Kirsty McDougall

Journal article  |  2010  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS

Aspects of nasal realization and the place of articulation imperative in Bininj Gun-Wok

JF Fletcher, A Butcher, DEL Loakes, HMS Stoakes

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

A Blueprint for a Comprehensive Australian English Auditory-Visual Speech Corpus

Denis Burnham, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Joanne Arciuli, Mohammed Bennamoun, Catherine T Best, Steven Bird, Andrew R Butcher, Steve Cassidy, Girija Chetty, Felicity M Cox, Anne Cutler, Robert Dale, Julien R Epps, Janet M Fletcher, Roland Goecke, David B Grayden, John T Hajek, John C Ingram, Shunichi Ishihara, Nenagh Kemp, et al.

Conference Proceedings  |  2009  |  Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Wokshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages

Contemporary speech science is driven by the availability of large, diverse speech corpora. Such infrastructure underpins research..

Developing a Quality Spoken Component of the Australian National Corpus

J MULDER, C Penry Williams, D LOAKES

Conference Proceedings  |  2009  |  Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages

A forensic phonetic investigation into the speech patterns of identical and non-identical twins

D Loakes

Journal article  |  2008  |  International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law: Forensic Linguistics

Coarticulation in nasal and lateral clusters in Warlpiri

Janet Fletcher, Deborah Loakes, Andrew Butcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2008  |  Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008

Phonetically prestopped laterals in Australian Languages: A preliminary investigation of Warlpiri

Deborah Loakes, Andrew Butcher, Janet Fletcher, Hywel Stoakes

Conference Proceedings  |  2008  |  Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008

SPECTRAL AND DURATIONAL PROPERTIES OF VOWELS IN KUNWINJKU

J FLETCHER, HM STOAKES, D LOAKES, undefined Butcher

Conference Proceedings  |  2007  |  Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Frication of Australian English /p t k/: Group tendencies and individual differences

D LOAKES, K MCDOUGALL

Conference Proceedings  |  2007  |  Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Variation in Long-Term Fundamental Frequecncy: Measurements from Vocalic Segments in Twins' Speech

D LOAKES

Conference Proceedings  |  2006  |  Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

Intonational variation in adolescent conversational speech: rural versus urban patterns

J FLETCHER, D LOAKES

Conference Proceedings  |  2006  |  Speech Prosody

Patterns of rising and falling in Australian English

J FLETCHER, D LOAKES

Conference Proceedings  |  2006  |  Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology