Associate Professor Janet Fletcher
Contact details
Phone: +61 3 8344 5190
Email: janetf@ unimelb.edu.au
Office: Arts Centre 531
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
Clark, J., Yallop, C. & FLETCHER J. (2007). An introduction to phonetics and phonology (3rd Edition), Oxford:Blackwell
Barry, J.G. , Blamey, P.J., & FLETCHER, J. (2006) Factors affecting the acquisition of vowel phonemes by pre-linguistically deafened cochlear implant users learning Cantonese. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetic, PrEview
Evans, N., FLETCHER, J., & Ross, B. (in press) Big words, small phrases: mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon. Linguistics
FLETCHER, J. and Loakes, D. (2006). Patterns of rising and falling in Australian English. In P. Warren and C.I. Watson eds. Proceedings of the 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2006. 42-7
FLETCHER, J. and Loakes, D. (2006b). Intonational variation in adolescent conversational speech: rural versus urban patterns. In. R. Hoffman and H. Mixdorff. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden: TUD press, (4pp)
FLETCHER J., Grabe, E. & Warren, P. (2005) Intonational variation in four dialects of English: the high rising tune. In Sun-Ah Jun (ed.). Prosody and Typology – The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing (pp 390-409). Oxford University Press: Oxford
Bishop, J. & FLETCHER, J.(2005) Bininj Gun-Wok Intonation. In Sun-Ah Jun (ed.).Prosody and typology – The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing (pp 331-361) Oxford:OUP
FLETCHER, J. (2005). Compound rises and uptalk in Australian English. Interspeech 2005, 1381-1384
FLETCHER, J. Evans, N. & Ross B (2005). The intra-word pause and disfluency in Dalabon. in E. Campione (ed) Proceedings of DiSS'05, Aix-en-Provence. 77-81
FLETCHER, J. (2004). An EMA/EPG study of vowel to vowel coarticulation across velars in Southern British English. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 18, 577-592
FLETCHER, J., Evans, N., & Ross B. (2004) Pausing strategies and prosodic structure in Dalabon. In. S.Cassidy (ed.) Proceedings of the Xth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (4 pp)
FLETCHER J & Butcher A.R. (2003) Local and global influences on vowel formants in three Australian languages. In SOLÉ MJ,RECASENS D & ROMERO J (eds): Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (Barcelona 3-11 August) [CD-ROM] 905-908.
Mushin, I., Stirling, L., FLETCHER, J. and Wales, R. Discourse structure, grounding, and prosody in task-oriented dialogue. Discourse Processes, 35, 1, 1-32. London: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. (2003)
FLETCHER, J. and Evans, N. Acoustic correlates of intonational prominence in two Australian languages. Journal of the International Phonetics Association 32 (2), 123-140. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. (2002)
FLETCHER J., Stirling, L., Wales, R., and Mushin, I. Rising intonation and dialogue acts in Australian English Language and Speech, 45(3), 229-254. London:Kingston Press. (2002)
FLETCHER, J. & Butcher A. (2002) Vowel dispersion in two northern Australian Languages: Bininj Gun-wok and Dalabon. In. C. Bow & P. Blamey (eds.) Proceedings of the IXth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. (4pp)
Wales, R., Mushin I., Fletcher, J. & Stirling L. (2002) Turn and Turn About: Does Prosody aid the listener?. Proceedings of the IXth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology.
FLETCHER, J., Wales, R., Stirling, L., and Mushin I. A dialogue act analysis of rises in Australian English Map Task dialogues. In B.Bel and I. Marlien (eds.) Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002 Universite de Provence, 299-303. (2002)
FLETCHER, J., Evans, N., and Round, E. Left-edge tonal events in Kayardild (Australian): A typological perspective. In B.Bel and I. Marlien (eds.) Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002, Universite de Provence, 295-298. (2002)
Barry, J., Blamey, P. & FLETCHER, J. (2002) Phoneme development in profoundly hearing-impaired Cantonese-speaking children using a cochlear implant. In C.Bow & P.Blamey (eds) Proceedings of the XIIIth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. (6pp)
FLETCHER, J. & Harrington, J. (2001) High Rising terminals and Fall-Rise Tunes in Australian English. Phonetica, 58, 215-229, Basel:Karger
Stirling, L., FLETCHER, J., Mushin, I. and Wales, R. Representational issues in annotation: using the Australian map task corpus to relate prosody and discourse structure. Speech Communication, 33, 113-134, Amsterdam: Elsevier (2001)
Research Grants
2007-9 Butcher, FLETCHER & Tabain. "The relationship between speech production and perception in Australian language speakers: implications for speech development and learning in Aboriginal children", ARC Discovery Project (Flinders University)
2005-7 FLETCHER, & Butcher. "An instrumental investigation of consonant sequences in a northern Australian language" ARC Discovery Project
2005 MARRETT, FOLEY, SIMPSON, PAWLEY, BOWDEN, RUMSEY, ROSS, BIRD, EVANS, FLETCHER, HAJEK, FALK, GODDARD, DE FERRANTI – Australian Research Council – LEIF scheme, “PARADISEC: the Pacific and regional archive for digital sources in endangered cultures: accessibility and decentralization”
2004 SOL Grant in Aid. Disfluencies and phonological structure in Bininj Gun-wok.
2004a MARRETT, FOLEY, SIMPSON, PAWLEY, BOWDEN, RUMSEY, ROSS, BIRD, EVANS, FLETCHER, HAJEK, FALK, GODDARD, DE FERRANTI – Australian Research Council – LEIF scheme, “Digital Archiving equipment for PARADISEC research archive of Asia-pacific region audio recordings” (with Marrett et al.)
2003a FLETCHER - Australian Research Council- Discovery Project “Uptalk in Australian English”
2003b MARRETT, FOLEY, SIMPLSON, BARWICK, NATHAN, AUSTIN, EVANS, FLETCHER, HAJEK, FALK, BIRD,ADELAR,PAWLEY,BOWDEN - Australian Research Council – LEIF scheme “Quadriga system for research archive of Asia Pacific region Audio recordings” (with Marrett et al.)
2002 FLETCHER (CI) & HARRINGTON (PI) - Australian Research Council- Discovery (Innovation) Grant “Rising in Australian English Intonation”