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DR DEBBIE LOAKES



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Organization: Languages and Linguistics, Languages and Linguistics
Position: RESEARCH ASSISTANT GRADE 2, RESEARCH ASSISTANT GRADE 2
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Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
forensic speaker identification phonetics Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (Social Science) Monash University 09-Nov-2000
Linguistics University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2006

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member International Assocition of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics Full member 06-Mar-2007
Member International Phonetic Association Full Member 01-Jul-2003
Member International Association of Forensic Linguists Full member 01-Jul-2002
Member Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Full member 04-Nov-2002

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

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 2008

Journal Articles

  • A Forensic Phonetic Investigation into the Speech Patterns of Identical and Non-Identical Twins
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law: Forensic Linguistics
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 97-100
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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

Conference Publications/Papers

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


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 1445-1448
    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

Conference Publications/Papers

  • 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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  • Variation in Long-Term Fundamental Frequecncy: Measurements from Vocalic Segments in Twins' Speech
    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: 205-210
    Publisher: University of Auckland(Auckland)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Frication of /k/ and /p/ in Australian English: Inter- and Intra- Speaker Variation
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Tenth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Page numbers: 171 - 176
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
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  • Front Vowels as Speaker-Specific: Some Evidence from Australian English
    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: 289 - 294
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A forensic phonetic analysis of the speech patterns of non-identical twins
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Melbourne Papers in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 57-75
    Publisher: Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Individuality of the voice: an analysis of telephone recorded twin pairs
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology
    Page numbers: 214 - 219
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
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