Dr Deborah Loakes
Researcher - Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
ContactRoom 411, Babel BuildingSchool of Languages and Linguistics The University of Melbourne T: 9035 4777 E: dloakes@ unimelb.edu.au |
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (Monash University), PhD (Phonetics) (The University of Melbourne).
PhD abstract: A forensic phonetic investigation into the speech patterns of identical and non-identical twins (495kb pdf)
Research interests and areas of supervision
- Phonetics, phonetic variation in Australian English, phonetic variation in Australian languages, forensic phonetics, twin' speech, Indigenous child language (see ACLA2 - People web page).
- Realisation of /el/-/æl/ in Melbourne and in Australian English (see e.g. Workshop Handout July 26 2011 (885kb pdf)), Walcome to Malbourne on the Fully Sic blog, and see 2010 publications).
- Aus Talk website.
Selected publications
- Loakes, D. (to appear 2012) "From IPA to Praat and Beyond," in K. Brown and K. Allan (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Loakes, D. and K. McDougall (2010) "Individual variation in the frication of voiceless plosives in Australian English: a study of twins' speech," in Australian Journal of Linguistics Vol.30 (2) pp. 155-181.
- Loakes, D., J. Hajek, and J. Fletcher (2010a) "The /el/-/æl/ Sound Change in Australian English: A Preliminary Perception Experiment," in Y. Treis and R. de Busser (Eds.) Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. Available: The /el/-/æl/ Sound Change in Australian English (245kb pdf)
- Loakes, D., J. Hajek and J. Fletcher (2010b) "(Mis)perceiving /el/-/æl/ in Melbourne English: a micro-analysis of sound perception and change," in M. Tabain, J. Fletcher, D. Grayden, J. Hajek and A. Butcher Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. Canberra, pp. 179-182.
- Loakes, D., J. Hajek and J. Fletcher (2010c) "Issues in the perception of the /el/-/æl/ contrast in Melbourne: Perception, production and lexical frequency effects," in M. Tabain, J. Fletcher, D. Grayden, J. Hajek and A. Butcher Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. Canberra, pp. 183-186.
- Loakes, D. A. Butcher, J. Fletcher, J. and H. Stoakes (2008) "Phonetically Prestopped Laterals in Australian Languages: A Preliminary Investigation of Warlpiri," in J. Fletcher, D. Loakes, R. Gocke, D. Burnham and M. Wagner (eds.) Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating ASSTA 2008, pp. 90-93, Isca: Bonn.
- Fletcher, J. and D. Loakes (2006) "Intonational Variation in Adolescent Conversational Speech: Rural Versus Urban Patterns" in R. Hoffman and H. Mixdorff (eds.) Proceedings of Speech Prosody: 3rd International Conference Dresden: TUD Press, pp. 253-256. Available: view the full paper on the Speech Prosody 2006 web page.
- Loakes, D. (2006) "Variation in Long-Term Fundamental Frequency: Measurements from Vocalic Segments in Twins' Speech" (115kb pdf) in P. Warren and C.I. Watson (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. Canberra, pp. 205-210.