Associate Professor Janet Fletcher
Contact details
Phone: +61 3 8344 5190
Email: janetf@ unimelb.edu.au
Office: Babel Building 605
Biography
Janet Fletcher studied French at the University of Queensland and then completed a PhD in linguistics at the University of Reading. She worked for two years at the Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh. In 1988 she took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Linguistics of the Ohio State University. Janet came to Melbourne in 1993 after two years in the Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University. Her research interests include phonetic theory, laboratory phonology, prosodic phonology, articulatory and acoustic modelling of prosodic effects in speech. She is currently working on aspects of consonant and vowel articulation in Northern Australian languages (with Andy Butcher and Marija Tabain) and on intonational variation in Australian English.
Selected Publications
Chapters in Books
Fletcher J. 2010. The Prosody of Speech: Timing and Rhythm. In Hardcastle W, Laver J & Gibbon F (eds), The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing , pp. 523-602 .
Vogel A., Fletcher J., Snyder, Fredrickson & Maruff P. 2011. Reliability, stability, and sensitivity to change and impairment in acoustic measures of timing and frequency. Human Communication Science: A Compendium. Australia: ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science , pp. 239-260
Journal Articles
Tabain, M, Fletcher, J. & Butcher, A. 2011. An EPG study of palatal consonants in two Australian Languages. Language and Speech 54(2) 265–282
Vogel A., Fletcher J. & Maruff P. 2010. Acoustic analysis of the effects of sustained wakefulness on speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128 (6) : 3747-3756.
Maxwell O & Fletcher J. 2010. The acoustic characteristics of diphthongs in Indian English. World Englishes . 29 (1) : 27-44.
Maxwell O & Fletcher J. 2009. Acoustic and durational properties of Indian English vowels. World Englishes . 28 (1) : 52-69.
Evans N, Fletcher J & Ross B. 2008. Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon. Linguistics. 46 (1): 89-129.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Fletcher J., Butcher A, Loakes D. & Stoakes H. 2010. Aspects of nasal realization and the place of articulation imperative in Bininj Gun-Wok. In Tabain M, Fletcher J, Grayden D, Hajek J & Butcher A(eds), Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 78-81. Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Australia (ASSTA).
Fletcher J & Loakes D. 2010. Interpreting rising intonation in Australian English. Speech Prosody 2010. Chicago:ISCA 4pp.
Loakes D., Hajek J. & Fletcher J. 2010. (Mis)perceiving /el/ ~ /æl/ in Melbourne English: a micro-analysis of sound perception and change. In Tabain M, Fletcher J, Grayden D, Hajek J & Butcher A(eds), Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 179-182. Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Australia (ASSTA).
Loakes D., Hajek J. & Fletcher J. 2010. Issues in the perception of the /el/ ~ /æl/ contrast in Melbourne: Perception, production and lexical frequency effects. In Tabain M, Fletcher J, Grayden D, Hajek J & Butcher A(eds), Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. 183-186. Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Australia (ASSTA).
Loakes D, Hajek J & Fletcher J. 2010. The /el/-/æl/ sound change in Australian English: A preliminary perception experiment. Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. Sydney, Australia: Australian Linguistics Society.
Fletcher J, Loakes D & Butcher A. 2008. Coarticulation in nasal and lateral clusters in Warlpiri. In Fletcher J, Loakes D, Gocke R, Burnham D & Wagner M(eds), Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008. 86-89. Bonn, Germany: ISCA.
Loakes D, Butcher A, Fletcher J & Stoakes H. 2008. Phonetically prestopped laterals in Australian languages: A preliminary investigation of Warlpiri. In Fletcher J, Loakes D, Gocke R, Burnham D & Wagner M(eds), Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008. 90-93. Bonn, Germany: ISCA.
Textbook
Clark , Yallop C & Fletcher J. 2007. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 3rd ed. Wiley-Blackwell
Current Research Grants
2011-2013 Fletcher, Singer, & Tabain. Structure and meaning in three Australian Languages. ARC Discovery Project.
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