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Email

bjbaker@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor in Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics
Education
PhD
University of Sydney
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Sydney
ORCID

0000-0002-7012-4442

Prof Brett Baker

Professor in Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics

71 Scholarly works
4 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Lenition, fortition, and lexical access in Iwaidja and Mawng
    DOI: 10.16995/labphon.15347
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Kriol in the Northern Territory
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003441021-12
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Gradient or categorical? Towards a phonological typology of illusory vowels in Mandarin
    DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2025.103252
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Medial consonant lengthening in Eastern Middle Paman: Syllable position or lexical stress?
    DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2025.2467030
  • 2019

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    1 Potato, 2 Wotatoes, 3 Otatoes: Lexical Access in Australian Languages
  • 2018

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Are Super-Complex Words Represented Like Sentences in Speakers' Minds?
  • 2018

    Book Chapter

    Super-Complexity and the Status of ‘Word’ in Gunwinyguan Languages of Australia
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74394-3_10
Brett Baker

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation
    DOI: 10.1017/S0305000923000430
  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    A doll on the dole: Prelateral length mergers in Australian English
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Same vowels but different contrasts: Mandarin listeners’ perception of English /ei/-/iː/ in unfamiliar phonotactic contexts
    DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101221
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Difficulties in decoupling articulatory gestures in L2 phonemic sequences: The case of Mandarin listeners' perceptual deletion of English post-vocalic laterals
    DOI: 10.1515/phon-2022-0027
  • 2023

    Conference Proceedings

    Words or rules: Phonological mutations in Wubuy
  • 2022

    Conference Proceedings

    Accuracy-Latency Association in Discrimination of L2 Vowel Contrasts

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2013

    Research Grant

    Learning to Talk Whitefella Way
  • 2011

    Internal Research Grant

    Perception of Rich Consonant Contrasts in Wubuy

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