Professor John Hajek
Professor - Italian Studies
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Qualifications
BA Hons (Melbourne); D.Phil (Oxford)
Research interests and areas of supervision
Italian and Romance linguistics, phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, endangered languages and dialects, language contact, the languages of Europe and the Asia-Pacific, language teaching and learning. Aus Talk website.
Biography
John Hajek is Convenor of Italian and director of the Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-cultural Communication (RUMACCC) in the School. He is also project leader for the ALTC-funded Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU). Trained originally in Italian, French and Romance linguistics, he completed his studies in Italy and Great Britain before returning to Melbourne. He has extensive experience in teaching language (Italian and Tetum) and linguistics (Italian, Romance and general) and has published across a wide range of research areas. He is currently editing with Catrin Norrby a volume on language policy issues around the world. Other projects under way include address practices in Italy and Europe as well as the description of minority and endangered languages in Italy, Europe and the Asia-Pacific.
Selected publications
- Kruspe, N. and Hajek. J. Mah Meri. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 39: 241-248. (2009)
- Hajek, J. Multilingual knowledge, practices and attitudes in the European Union. In J. Warren and H. M. Benbow (eds) Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 167-183 (2008).
- Hajek, J. Tracce rare della vocale turbata ü in area alto-vicentina, Revue de linguistique romane 71: 65-72 (2008).
- Hajek, J. and M. Stevens. Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian. In J. Fletcher, D. Loakes, R. Gocke, D. Burnham and M. Wagner (eds) Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008, Brisbane: ISCA, 516-519 (2008).
- Slaughter, Y. and J. Hajek. Community languages and LOTE provision in Victorian primary schools: mix or match? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30(1): 7.1-7.22 (2007).
- Hajek, J. Vowel Nasalization. In Dryer, M., M. Haspelmath, D. Gil, David & B. Comrie, (eds.) World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 46-49 (2005).
- Stevens, M. and J. Hajek. Raddoppiamento sintattico and word-medial gemination in Italian: Are they the same or are they different? The evidence from spontaneous speech. In R. Gess and E. J. Rubin (eds) Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics. Amsterdam; John Benjamins, 257-271 (2005).
- Absalom, M., Hajek, J. and M. Stevens. Il fenomeno del raddoppiamento nella realtà italiana. In M. Pettorino (ed) Il Parlato Italiano, Naples: M'Auria Editore (2004).
- Hajek, John, C Williams-van Klinken and R Nordlinger. Tetun Dili, A Grammar of an East Timorese Language. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics (2002).
- Universals of Sound Change in Nasalization. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers. (1997, reprinted 1999).