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Email

dloakes@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
SNR Lecturer, Introductory Academic Programs & Esl
School of Languages and Linguistics
Education

Holmesglen TAFE
PhD
The University of Melbourne
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Monash University
ORCID

0000-0001-7620-3769

Dr Debbie Loakes

SNR Lecturer, Introductory Academic Programs & Esl
School of Languages and Linguistics

74 Scholarly works
4 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Introduction: Perceptions and attitudes in linguistically diverse contexts
    DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2026.2644334
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Do Australians hear ethnicity?
    DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2026.2620744
  • 2025

    Journal article

    A Description of Hobart English Monophthongs: Vowel and Voice Quality
    DOI: 10.3390/languages10120297
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Australia, Ethnolects in
    DOI: 10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00217
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Regional Distribution of the /el/-/æl/ Merger in Australian English
  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    The sociophonetics of coda /t/ in Dublin English
    DOI: 10.21437/isaph.2024-4
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    One place, two speech communities: differing responses to sound change in Mainstream and Aboriginal Australian English in a small rural town
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110765328-005
Debbie Loakes

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English
    DOI: 10.1177/00238309231198520
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Australian Aboriginal English Spoken in Victoria
    DOI: 10.3390/languages9090299
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    The sociolinguistics of urban multilingualism
    DOI: 10.1075/sibil.66.15wal

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

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