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A/PROF JANET FLETCHER



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: ACCOCOATE PROFESSOR IN PHONETICS
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Homepage: http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/fletcher/
Work: 03 8344 5190
Fax: 03 9347 2613
Level: 05
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Phonetics and Laboratory phonology Intonation, coarticulation, vowel modelling, indigenous Australian languages Australia, Germany

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Germany Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Research, Teaching, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) The University of Queensland 10-Apr-1981
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Reading 31-Dec-1988

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Acoustical Society of America Annual 01-Jan-1989
Member Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Annual 01-Jan-1992

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Uptalk in Australian english intonation Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
AN INSTRUMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF CONSONANT SEQUENCES IN A NORTHERN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPEECH PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION IN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE SPEAKERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SPEECH DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING IN ABORIGINAL CHILDREN Chief Investigator FLINDERS UNIVERSITY Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 04/10/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Acoustic and durational properties of Indian English vowels
    Year: 2009
    Journal: World Englishes
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 52-69
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Linguistics
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 89-129
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Coarticulation in nasal and lateral clusters in Warlpiri


    Year: 2008
    Event name: Interspeech 2008
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008
    Page numbers: 86-89
    Publisher: ISCA(Bonn)
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  • Phonetically prestopped laterals in Australian languages: A preliminary investigation of Warlpiri


    Year: 2008
    Event name: Interspeech 2008
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008
    Page numbers: 90-93
    Publisher: ISCA(Bonn)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Carlton South)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • AN ACOUSTIC STUDY OF VOWEL CONTRASTS IN NORTH INDIAN ENGLISH
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 953-956
    Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF SAARLAND(SAARBRUCKEN)
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  • An Acoustic Study of Bininj Gun-Wok Medial Stop Consonants
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 869-872
    Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF SAARLAND(SAARBRUCKEN)
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  • SPECTRAL AND DURATIONAL PROPERTIES OF VOWELS IN KUNWINJKU
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 937-940
    Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF SAARLAND(SAARBRUCKEN)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Factors affecting the acquisition of vowel phonemes by pre-linguistically deafened cochlear implant users learning Cantonese
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
    Volume: 2006
    Issue: prEview
    Page numbers: 1-20
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Articulatory variability of intervocalic stop articulation in Bininj Gun- Wok
    Year: 2006
    Event name: the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 182-186
    Publisher: University of Auckland(Auckland)
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  • Intonational variation in adolescent conversational speech: rural versus urban patterns
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Speech Prosody 3rd International Conference, Dresden
    Conference Publication: Speech Prosody
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: TUD Press(Dresden)
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  • Patterns of rising and falling in Australian English
    Year: 2006
    Event name: the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Page numbers: 42-47
    Publisher: University of Auckland(Auckland)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Exploring the Phonetics of Spoken Narratives in Australian Indigenous Languages
    Year: 2005
    Book: A Figure of Speech: A Festschrift for John Laver
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
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  • Intonation in Six Dialects of Bininj Gun-wok
    Year: 2005
    Book: Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Intonational Variation in Four Dialects of English: the High Rising Tune
    Year: 2005
    Book: Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Compound rises and "uptalk" in spoken English dialogues
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Eurospeech Interspeech 2005: 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
    Page numbers: 1381 - 1384
    Publisher: ISCA(Bonn)
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  • The intra-word pause and disfluency in Dalabon
    Year: 2005
    Event name: DiSS Conference: Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech: An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop
    Conference Publication: DiSS Conference: Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech: An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop
    Page numbers: 77 - 81
    Publisher: Universite de Provence(Aix-en-Provence)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • An EMA/EPG study of vowel-to-vowel articulation across velars in Southern British English
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 6-8
    Page numbers: 577 - 592
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Pausing strategies and prosodic boundaries in Dalabon
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Page numbers: 426 - 439
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Discourse structure, grounding, and prosody in task-oriented dialogue


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Discourse Processes
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-31
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Local and global influences on vowel formants in three Australian languages


    Year: 2003
    Event name: 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 905-908
    Publisher: Causal Productions(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Intonational rises and dialogue acts in the Australian English map task


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Language and Speech
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 229-254
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  • An acoustic phonetic analysis of intonational prominence in two Australian languages
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of the International Phonetic Association
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-18
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A dialogue act analysis of rises in Australian English map task dialogues
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 1st international conference on speech prosody
    Conference Publication: Speech prosody 2002: Proceedings of the 1st internaitonal conference on speech prosody
    Page numbers: 299-302
    Publisher: Universite de Provence(Aix-en-Provence)
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  • Left-edge tonal events in Kayardild (Australian) - a typological perspective
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 1st international conference on speech prosody
    Conference Publication: Speech prosody 2002: Proceedings from the 1st international conference on speech prosody
    Page numbers: 295-298
    Publisher: Universite de Provence(Aix-en-Provence)
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  • Phoneme development in profoundly hearing-impaired Cantonese-speaking children using a Cochlear implant
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Ninth Australian international conference on speech science and technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the ninth Australian international conference on speech science and technology
    Page numbers: 343-348
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Melbourne)
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  • Turn and turn about: does prosody help the hearer?
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Ninth Australian international conference on speech science and technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the ninth Australian international conference on speech and technology
    Page numbers: 491-496
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Melbourne)
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  • Vowel dispersion in two Northern Australian languages: Dalabon and Bininj Gun-wok
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Ninth Australian international conference on speech science and technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the ninth Australian conference on speech science and technology
    Page numbers: 343-348
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • High-rising terminals and fall-rise tunes in Australian English.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Phonetica
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 215-229
    Publisher: S Karger AG
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  • Representational issues in annotation: Using the Australian map task corpus to relate prosody and discourse structure.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Speech Communication
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 113-134
    Publisher: North-Holland
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