Dr Debbie Loakes
SNR Lecturer, Introductory Academic Programs & Esl
School of Languages and Linguistics
76 Scholarly works
4 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Journal article
Australian Indian English: Contact-Induced Adaptation in the Perception of Vowel Categories
DOI: 10.3390/languages110500982026
Journal article
Introduction: Perceptions and attitudes in linguistically diverse contexts
DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2026.26443342026
Journal article
Do Australians hear ethnicity?
DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2026.26207442026
Journal article
/t/ Production in Mainstream and Aboriginal Australian Englishes in Warrnambool and Mildura: A Sociophonetic Acoustic Study
DOI: 10.3390/languages110500942025
Book Chapter
Australia, Ethnolects in
DOI: 10.1002/9781119518297.eowe002172025
Conference Proceedings
Regional Distribution of the /el/-/æl/ Merger in Australian English
2025
Journal article
A Description of Hobart English Monophthongs: Vowel and Voice Quality
DOI: 10.3390/languages10120297
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2024
Conference Proceedings
The sociophonetics of coda /t/ in Dublin English
DOI: 10.21437/isaph.2024-42024
Book Chapter
One place, two speech communities: differing responses to sound change in Mainstream and Aboriginal Australian English in a small rural town
DOI: 10.1515/9783110765328-0052024
Journal article
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English
DOI: 10.1177/00238309231198520
RECENT PROJECTS
2013
Internal Research Grant
Social Variation, Prosody, and Sound Change in Australian and European Languages
2010
Research Contracts
The Big Australian Speech Corpus: An Audio-Visual Speech Corpus of Australian English
2012
Internal Research Grant
Accent and Identity in Regional Victoria: Local Dynamics, Local Histories and Social Structure.
2012
Internal Research Grant
Loakes - Career Interruption Fellowship 2012