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    /æl/-/el/ transposition in Australian English: Hypercorrection or a competing sound change?
    Loakes, DE ; Hajek, JT ; Fletcher, J (City University of Hong Kong, 2011)
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    Vowel perception in Victoria: variability, confusability and listener expectation
    Loakes, DE ; GRAETZER, N ; Hajek, JT ; Fletcher, J (Macquarie University, 2012)
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    Identifying /el/-/æl/: A comparison between two regional Australian towns
    Loakes, D ; Hajek, J ; Clothier, J ; Fletcher, J ; Hay, J ; Parnell, E (University of Canterbury, 2014)
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    Short vowels in L1 Aboriginal English spoken in Western Victoria
    LOAKES, D ; Fletcher, J ; Hajek, J ; Clothier, J ; Volchok, B ; Carignan, C ; Tyler, MD (Causal Productions, 2016-12-16)
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    Intonational correlates of subject and object realisation in Mawng (Australian)
    FLETCHER, J ; Stoakes, H ; Singer, R ; Loakes, D ; BARNES, J ; VEILLEUX, N ; SHATTUCK-HUFNAGEL, S ; BRUGOS, A (ISCA, 2016)
    A range of intonational devices can be used in the grammar of information and corrective focus marking in languages with relatively free word order. In this paper we explore whether nouns in the Australian Indigenous language Mawng are realised differently depending on syntactic function and focus. Results show that the pitch level associated with Subjects is higher in conditions of corrective focus compared to other utterance contexts and there is a strong correlation between focus and utterance position. Placing a word in a corrective focus context does not appear to have an effect on word duration in this corpus confirming that pitch register variation and intonational phrasing are the major prosodic cues associated with corrective focus in Mawng.
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    Accentual prominence and consonant lengthening and strengthening in Mawng
    Fletcher, J ; Stoakes, H ; Loakes, D ; Singer, R ; Wolters, M ; Livingstone, J ; Beattie, B ; Smith, R ; MacMahon, M ; Stuart-Smith, J ; Scobbie, J (University of Glasgow, 2015)
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    (Mis)perceiving /el/ ~ /æl/ in Melbourne English: a micro-analysis of sound perception and change
    Loakes, DEL ; Hajek, JTH ; Fletcher, JF (Australasian Speech Science and Technology Australia (ASSTA), 2010)
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    Interpreting rising intonation in Australian English
    Fletcher, J ; Loakes, D (University of Illinois Press, 2010-01-01)
    Australian English is referred to widely as a rising variety of English due to the prevalence of rising tunes in interactive discourse. Australian English subjects were required to listen to a series of rising stimuli that varied in terms of pitch level and pitch span and were asked whether they heard a question or statement. The results showed that both rise span and pitch level of the rise elbow influenced the pattern of responses. If both were relatively high, subjects were most likely to interpret the rise as a question, with fewer question responses when the rise elbow was relatively low and the pitch span narrow. The results provide limited evidence for two simple rises in Australian English, but also confirm a high level of phonetic gradience amongst rising tunes in this variety.