Sources

Sources

Our books

Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N., Amberber, M., Cox, F., & Thornton, R. (2021) 10th Edition, An Introduction to Language, Cengage, Melbourne. ISBN: 9780170450065.

Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N., Amberber, M., Cox, F., & Thornton, R. (2018) 9th Edition, An Introduction to Language, Cengage, Melbourne. ISBN: 9780170386807.

Cox, F. & Fletcher, J. (2017) 2nd Edition, Australian English: Pronunciation and Transcription, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. ISBN: 9781316639269.

Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N., Amberber, M., Cox, F., & Thornton, R.(2015) 8th Edition, An Introduction to Language, Cengage, Melbourne. ISBN: 9780170261197.

Cox, F. (2012) Australian English: Pronunciation and Transcription, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. ISBN: 9780521145893.

Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N., Collins, P., Amberber, M. & Cox, F. (2012) 7th Edition, An Introduction to Language, Cengage, Melbourne. ISBN: 9780170212984.

Our book chapters

Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Penney, J. (accepted 29th November 2022) 50 years of monophthong and diphthong shifts in Australian English, in Kleber, F. & Rathke, T. (eds.) Speech Dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change, Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin.

Cox, F. & Docherty, G. (accepted 10th November 2022) Vowels, in. Strelluf, Christopher. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics, Routledge, Oxfordshire.

Cox, F. M. (accepted 23rd November 2021) Australian English Phonetics and Phonology, in Burridge, K. (ed.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes: Australasia and the Pacific, Wiley Blackwell, West Sussex.

Cox, F. M. (2020) Australian English: Phonetics and Phonology, in Willoughby, L. & Manns, H. (eds.) Australian English Reimagined: Structure, Features and Developments, Taylor & Francis/Routledge, Oxfordshire.

Cassidy, S., Estival, D. & Cox, F. (2017). Case Study: the AusTalk Corpus, in Ide, N. & Pustejovsky, J. (eds.) Handbook of Linguistic Annotation, Springer, Berlin, 209-227. ISBN: 9789402408799.

Cox, F. M. & Palethorpe, S. (2017). Open vowels in historical Australian English, in Hickey, R. (ed.) Listening to the Past, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 502-528. ISBN: 9781107051577.

Cox, F. M. & McLeod, S. (2015). Speech: Phonetics, in McLeod, S. & McCormack, J. (eds.) Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 83-133. ISBN: 9780195527926 – This text was shortlisted for best Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning Resource at the at the Educational Publishing Awards 2016.  It was highly commended in its category.

Cox, F. M. & Palethorpe, S. (2012). Standard Australian English: The Sociostylistic Broadness Continuum, in Hickey, R. (ed.) Standards of English: Codified Varieties around the World, Studies in Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 294-317. ISBN: 9780521763899.

Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Watson, C. I. (2005). Deepening or lessening the divide between diphthongs? An analysis of the Queen's annual Christmas broadcasts. In W. J. Hardcastle, & J. M. Beck (Eds.), A figure of speech: A festchrift for John Laver (pp. 227-262). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Cox, F. M. & Palethorpe, S. (2001). The Changing Face of Australian English Vowels. In Blair, D.B. & Collins, P (eds.) Varieties of English around the World: English in Australia: John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, 17-44. ISBN 9789027248848.

Our journal articles

Shea, T., Gibson, A., Szakay, A. & Cox F. (accepted) Australian English Speakers' Attitudes to Fricated Coda /t/. Australian Journal of LinguisticsShea, T., Gibson, A., Szakay, A. & Cox F. (accepted) Australian English Speakers' Attitudes to Fricated Coda /t/. Australian Journal of Linguistics

Chen, H., Xu Rattanasone, N., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (under revision). Understanding the Acquisition of Phonemic Vowel Length Contrasts in Australian English-Learning 18- and 24-Month-Olds, Journal of Child Language.

White, H., Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A. & Cox F. (submitted) Influence of speaker sex and pitch on perception of creaky voice, Journal of Phonetics

Ratko, L., Proctor M & Cox F. (accepted 23.3.23) Gestural characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English, Journal of Phonetics

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2022) Reconsidering Lateral Vocalisation: Evidence from perception and production of Australian English /l/, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, 2106-2116. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014249

White, H., Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A. & Cox F. (2022) Evaluating automatic creaky voice detection methods, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, 1476-1486. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0013888

Cox, F., Penney, J. & Palethorpe, S. (2022) Fifty years of change to definite article allomorphy in Australian English, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, pp 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002510032200007X

Ratko, L., Proctor M & Cox, F. (2022) Articulation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, pp. 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100322000068

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. Palethorpe, S. & Proctor, M. (2021) Spectral contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149, 1183-1197. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0003499

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2021) Perceptual contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes, Laboratory Phonology, 12, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.185

Proctor, M., Coltheart, M., Ratko, L., Szalay, T., Forster, K. & Cox, F. (2021) Characterising spoken responses in masked onset priming of reading aloud using articulography, Memory and Cognition, 49, 613-630 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01114-5

Penney, J., Cox, F. & Szakay, A. (2020) Glottalisation, coda voicing and phrase position in Australian English, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148, 3232-3245. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0002488

Penney, J., Cox, F., & Szakay, A. (2021). Effects of glottalisation, preceding vowel duration, and coda closure duration on the perception of coda stop voicing, Phonetica, 78, 29-63. https://doi.org/10.1159/000508752

Walker, M., Szakay, A. & Cox, F. (2019). Can kiwis and koalas induce perceptual bias in Australian English-speaking listeners? Laboratory Phonology, 10, 1-29.

Penney, J., Cox, F., & Szakay, A. (2021). Glottalisation of word-final stops in Australian English unstressed syllables. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 51, 229-260. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100319000045

Yuen, I., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2018). Prosodic effects on the planning of inserted 'r' in Australian English, Journal of Phonetics, 69, 29-42. doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.04.003

Penney, J., Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Miles, K. (2018). Glottalisation as a cue to coda stop voicing. Journal of Phonetics, 66, 161-184. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2017.10.001

Tsukada, K., Cox, F., Hajek, J. & Hirata, Y. (2018). Non-native Japanese learners’ perception of consonant length in Italian and Japanese, Second Language Research, 34, 179-200. doi: 10.1177/0267658317719494

Chen, H., Xu Rattanasone, N., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. (2017). Effect of early dialectal exposure on adult perception of phonemic vowel length. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142, 1707–1716. doi: 10.1121/1.4995994

Yuen, I., Cox, F., & Demuth, K.  (2017). Planning of hiatus-breaking inserted /ɹ/ in the speech of Australian English-speaking children. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 60, 826-835.

Miles, K., Yuen, I., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2016). The prosodic licensing of coda consonants in early speech: interactions with vowel length, Journal of Child Language, 43, 265-283.

Yuen, I., Miles, K., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2015). The syllabic status of final consonants in early speech: a case study, Journal of Child Language, 42, 682-694.

Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Bentink, S. (2014). Phonetic archaeology and fifty years of change to Australian English /iː/, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34, 50-75.

Cox, F., Palethorpe, S., Buckley, L. & Bentink, S. (2014). Hiatus resolution and linking /ɹ/ in Australian English, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 44, 155-178.

Yuen, I., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2014). Three-year-olds’ production of Australian English phonemic vowel length as a function of prosodic context, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135, 1469-1479.

Mealings, K. Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2013). Acoustic Investigations into the Later Acquisition of Syllabic -es Plurals, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56, 1260 - 1271.

Cox, F. M. (2008). Vowel transcription systems: An Australian perspective. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10, 327-333

McGregor, J., & Palethorpe, S. (2008). High rising tunes in Australian English: The communicative function of L* and H* pitch accent onsets. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 28, 171-193.

Cox, F. M. & Palethorpe, S. (2007). An illustration of the IPA: Australian English, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 37, 341-350.

Cox, F. M. (2006a). The acoustic characteristics of /hVd/ vowels in the speech of some Australian teenagers. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 26, 147-179

Cox, F. M. (2006b). Australian English pronunciation into the 21st century. Prospect: Australian Journal of TESOL, 21, 3-21.

Palethorpe, S., Watson, C.I., & Barker, R. (2003). Acoustic analysis of monophthong and diphthong production in acquired severe to profound hearing loss. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 1055-1068.

Rastle, K., Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Coltheart, M. (2000). Reading aloud begins when the computation of phonology is complete. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 1178-1191.

Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Watson, C. (2000). Does the Queen speak the Queen's English? Nature, 407, 927-928.

Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Watson, C. (2000). Monophthongal vowel changes in Received Pronunciation: an Acoustic Analysis of the Queen's Christmas Broadcasts. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 30, 63-78.

Cox, F. M. (1999). Vowel change in Australian English, Phonetica, 56, 1-27. ISSN 0031–8388

Cox, F. M. (1998). "The Bernard data revisited", Australian Journal of Linguistics, 18, 29-55

Harrington, J., Cox, F., and Evans, Z. (1997) An acoustic phonetic study of broad, general, and cultivated Australian English vowels. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 17, 155-184.

Palethorpe, S., Wales, R., Clark, J.E., & Senserrick, T. (1996). Vowel classification in children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 3843-3851.

Our conference papers

Ratko, L., Penney, J. & Cox, F. (2023) Opening or closing? An electroglottographic analysis of voiceless coda consonants in Australian English, Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin.

White, H., Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A. & Cox, F. (2023) Creak prevalence and prosodic context in Australian English, Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin.

Gibson, A., Penney, J. & Cox, F. (accepted) Acquiring allophony:  GOOSE and SCHOOL vowels in the speech of Australian children, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, Prague.

Penney, J., Gibson, A., Cox, F. (accepted) Variation in FACE and FLEECE trajectories in Australian English adolescents according to community language diversity, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, Prague

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (accepted) Prelateral vowel change in Australian English POOL-PULL, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, Prague.

White, H., Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A. & Cox F. (accepted) Convergence of creaky voice use in Australian English, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, Prague.

White, H., Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A. & Cox F. (2022) The influence of pitch and speaker sex on the identification of creaky voice by female listeners, Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Canberra, December 2022.

Gibson, A., Penney, J. & Cox, F. (2022) Rhoticity and hiatus breaking in Australian English: Associations with community diversity, Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Canberra, December 2022.

Penney, J., Davies, B. & Cox, F. (2022) Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research. Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Canberra, December 2022.

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2022) Vowel merger in Australian English lateral-final rimes: /æɔ-æ/. Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Canberra, December 2022.

Szalay, T., Shahin, M., Ratko, L., Tharmakulsingam, S., Cox, F., Ballard, K., Ahmed, B. (2022). A semi-automatic workflow for orthographic transcription of a novel speech corpus: A case study of AusKidTalk, Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Canberra, December 2022.

Ahmed, B., Ballard, K., Tharmakulsingam, S., Mehmood, H., Estival, D., Baker, E., Cox, F., Arciuli, J., Benders, T., Demuth, K., Kelly, B., Diskin-Holdaway, C., Burnham, D., Shahin, M., Sethu, V., Epps, J., Lee, C., B. & Ambikairajah, E. (2021). AusKidTalk: An Auditory-Visual Corpus of 3- to 12—year-old Australian Children's Speech, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Brno, Czech Republic.

Penney, J., Gibson, A., Cox, F., Proctor, M. & Szakay, A. (2021).  A comparison of acoustic correlates of voice quality across different recording devices: A cautionary tale. In H. Heřmanský, H. Černocký, L. Burget, L. Lamel, O. Scharenborg, & P. Motlicek (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021, August 30–September 3, Brno, Czechia (pp. 1389–1393). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech. 2021-729

White, H., Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A. & Cox, F. (2021). Optimizing an automatic creaky voice detection method for Australian English-speaking females. In H. Heřmanský, H. Černocký, L. Burget, L. Lamel, O. Scharenborg, & P. Motlicek (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2021, August 30–September 3, Brno, Czechia (pp. 1384–1388).       https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech. 2021-711

Penney, J. Cox, F. & Szakay, A (2020). Links between production and perception of glottalisation in individual Australian English speaker/listeners, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Shanghai, China.

Ratko, L., Proctor, M. & Cox, F. (2019). Articulation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Graz, Austria.

Cox, F., & Palethorpe, S. (2019). Vowel variation across four major Australian cities, in Calhoun, S., Escudero, P., Tabain, M. & Warren, P. (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.577-581.

Penney, J. Cox, F. & Szakay, A (2019). Glottalisation or the associated shorter modally voiced vowel: What do listeners use when perceiving coda voicelessness? in Calhoun, S., Escudero, P., Tabain, M. & Warren, P. (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

Ratko, L., Proctor, M., Cox, F. (2019). Onset - Vowel Articulatory Coordination - voiceless stops and vowel length, in Calhoun, S., Escudero, P., Tabain, M. & Warren, P. (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2019). Lingual configuration of Australian English /l/, in Calhoun, S., Escudero, P., Tabain, M. & Warren, P. (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2018) Rosa's roses – unstressed vowel merger in Australian English, in Epps, J., Wolfe, J., Smith, J. & Jones, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 89-92), Sydney, Australia Dec 4-7 2018.

Penney, J. Cox, F. & Szakay, A (2018) Effects of glottalisation on reaction time in identifying coda voicing, in Epps, J., Wolfe, J., Smith, J. & Jones, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 89-92), Sydney, Australia Dec 4-7 2018.

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2018) Production and perception of length contrast in lateral-final rimes, in Epps, J., Wolfe, J., Smith, J. & Jones, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 129-132), Sydney, Australia Dec 4-7 2018.

Penney, J. Cox, F. & Szakay, A. (2018) Weighting of Coda Voicing Cues: Glottalisation and Vowel Duration, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2018, (pp. 1422-1426), Hyderabad, India. https://www.isca-speech.org/ archive/ Interspeech_2018/pdfs/1677. pdf

Ratko, L., Proctor, M., Cox, F. & Veld, S. (2016). Preliminary Investigations into the Australian English Articulatory Vowel Space, in Carignan, C. & Tyler, M. D. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp.117-120), Sydney, Australia.

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2016). Disambiguation of Australian English vowels, in Carignan, C. & Tyler, M. D. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp.73-76), Sydney, Australia.

Walker, M., Szakay, A. & Cox, F. (2016). Regional priming in Australian English kit, dress and trap vowels, in Carignan, C. & Tyler, M. D. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 77-80), Sydney, Australia.

Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Miles, K.  (2015). The role of contrast maintenance in the temporal structure of the rhyme, in Wolters, M. et al (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.

Tsukada, K., Cox, F., Hajek, J. & Hirata, Y. (2015). Perception of Italian and Japanese singleton/geminate consonants by listeners from different language background, in Wolters, M. et al (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.

Yuen, I., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2015). Anticipatory planning of r-insertion in Australian English, in Wolters, M. et al (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.

Estival, D., Cassidy, S., Cox, F. & Burnham, D. (2014). AusTalk: An audio-visual corpus of Australian English, in Calzolari, N. et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9thInternational Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (2014),(pp. 3105-3109), Reykjavik, Iceland.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2014). Phonologisation of vowel duration and nasalised /æ/ in Australian English, in Hay, J. & Parnell, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 2-5 December, (pp. 33-36), Christchurch, New Zealand.

Tsukada, K., Cox, F., Hajek, J, Hirata, Y. (2014). Perception of Italian and Japanese consonant length by native speakers of Australian English and Italian: A pilot study, in Hay, J. & Parnell, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 2-5 December, (pp. 215-218), Christchurch, New Zealand.

Tsukada, K., Cox, F. & Hajek, J. (2014). Cross-language perception of Japanese singleton and geminate consonants: Preliminary data from non-native learners of Japanese and native speakers of Italian and Australian English. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2014, (pp. 1288-1292), Singapore.

Lin, S., Palethorpe, S. & Cox, F. (2012). An ultrasound exploration of Australian English /CVl/ words, in Cox, F., Demuth, K., Lin, S., Miles, K., Palethorpe, S., Shaw, J. and Yuen, I. (eds.) The proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2012 (SST 2012), (pp. 105-108), Sydney, Australia.

Yuen, I., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2012). Interaction of vowel length, utterance-position and accent in 3-year olds’ Australian English, in Cox, F., Demuth, K., Lin, S., Miles, K., Palethorpe, S., Shaw, J. and Yuen, I. (eds.) The proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2012 (SST 2012), (pp. 17-20), Sydney, Australia.

Burnham, D., Estival, D., Fazio, S., Cox, F., Dale, R., Viethen, J., Cassidy, S., Epps, J., Togneri, R., Kinoshita, Y., Göcke, R., Arciuli, J., Onslow, M., Lewis, T., Butcher, A. & Hajek, J. (2011). Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable Black Box, The proceedings of Interspeech 2011, (pp. 848-851), Florence, Italy.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2011). Timing differences in the VC rhyme of Standard Australian English and Lebanese Australian English, Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, 17-21August 2011.

Kato, A. & Cox, F. (2011). Duration feature learning for an intervocalic voiceless velar stop consonant, Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, 17-21August 2011.

Cox, F. and Palethorpe, S (2010). Broadness Variation in Australian English Speaking Females, in Tabain, M., Fletcher, J., Grayden, D., Hajek J. and Butcher, A. (eds.) The proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010 (SST 2010), (pp.175-178), Melbourne, Australia.

Lonergan, J. & Cox, F. (2010). Is there any evidence of rhoticity in historical Australian English? Proceedings of the Australian Linguistic Society Conference 2008, (pp. 1-16), Sydney, Australia.

Wagner, M., Tran, D., Togneri, R., Rose, P., Powers, D., Onslow, M., Loakes, D., Lewis, T., Kuratate, T., Kinoshita, Y., Kemp, N., Ishihara, S., Ingram, J., Hajek, J., Grayden, D.B., Göcke, R., Fletcher, J., Estival, D., Epps, J., Dale, R., Cutler, A., Cox, F., Chetty, G., Cassidy, S., Butcher, A., Burnham, D., Bird, S., Best, C., Bennamoun, M., Arciuli, J., & Ambikairajah, E. (2010). The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC). The proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010 (SST 2010), 166-170, Melbourne, Australia.

Burnham, D., Ambikairajah, E., Arciuli, J., Bennamoun, M., Best, C., Bird, S., Butcher, A. R., Cassidy, S., Chetty, G., Cox, F. M., Cutler, A., Dale, R., Epps, J. R., Fletcher, J.M., Goecke, R., Grayden D. B., Hajek, J. T., Ingram, J. C., Ishihara, S., Kemp, N., Kinoshita, Y., Kuratate, T., Lewis, T. W., Loakes, D. E., Onslow, M., Powers, D. , Rose, P., Togneri, R., Tran, D. & Wagner, M. (2009). A blueprint for a comprehensive Australian English auditory-visual speech corpus. In Haugh, M., Burridge, K., Mulder, J. and Peters P. (eds.) Selected proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus. Somerville, (pp. 96-107), Cascadilla Proceedings Project, MA.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2008). Reversal of short front vowel raising in Australian English, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2008) incorporating the 12th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2008), (pp. 342-345), Brisbane, Australia.

Lonergan, J. & Cox, F. (2008) Is there any evidence of rhoticity in historical Australian English, Proceedings of the Australian Linguistic Society Conference 2008, Sydney, July 2-4.

Kato, A. & Cox, F. (2006). Development of Japanese length contrast: A longitudinal study of L2 vowels produced by Australian learners of Japanese, in Warren, P. & Watson, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11thAustralasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST 2006), (pp. 170-175), Auckland, New Zealand.

Bombien, L., Cassidy, S., Harrington, J., John, T., & Palethorpe, S. (2006). Recent developments in the EMU speech database system. In P. Warren and C. Watson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Australasian international conference on speech science and technology (pp. 313-316). Auckland, New Zealand: Australian Speech Science & Technology Association.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2004). The border effect: Vowel differences across the NSW / Victorian border. In Moskovsky, C. (ed.) Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, (pp. 1-14), Newcastle, Australia. http://www.als.asn.au

Cassidy, S., Cox, F., Mannell, R., & Palethorpe, S. (Eds.). (2004). Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Sydney, Australia: Macquarie University.

Palethorpe, S., & Tabain, M. (Eds.). (2003). Proceedings of the Sixth International Seminar on Speech Production. Sydney, Australia: Macquarie University.

Cox, F. M. & Palethorpe S. (1998). "Regional variation in the vowels of female adolescents from Sydney". Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP, Sydney.

Bottell (Cox), F. & Clark, J.E. (1986). /r/ Misarticulation in Children's Speech, in Proceedings of the First Australian Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST1986), (pp. 28-33), Canberra.

Our conference proceedings

Cox, F., Demuth, K. Lin, S., Miles, K. Palethorpe, S. Shaw, J. & Yuen I. (2012). (eds) The proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2012 (SST 2012), Sydney, Australia. ISSN: 1039-0227.

Cassidy, S., Cox, F., Mannell, R. & Palethorpe, S. (2004) Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2004), December, Sydney. Sydney, Australia. Macquarie University CD_ROM ISBN 0 958 1946 10

Our conference paper abstracts

Ratko, L., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2022) Articulatory-Acoustic Timing relationships in Australian English vowels, Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Canberra December 2022

Clements, C, Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A & Cox, F. (2022) Phonological and lexical conditioning of trap vowel length in communities of varying linguistic diversity, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Melbourne, 30th Nov-2nd Dec 2022.

Clements, C., Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A & Cox, F. (2022), Documenting durational complexity of the TRAP vowel in Mainstream Australian English, Forum on Englishes in Australia, La Trobe University, October 2022.

Gibson, A., Penney, J. & Cox, F. (2022) Acquisition of r-sandhi and [ɹ] by Australian children, SocioPhonAus2, Brisbane 11th-12th July 2022

Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Penney, J. (2022) Modelling dynamic features of diphthongs across 50 years of change,SocioPhonAus2, Brisbane 11th-12th July 2022

Gibson, A., Cox, F. & Buckley, L. (2021) Gooses to the front: Development of an Australian English feature in multilingual children, Australian Linguistics Society Conference, Melbourne, December 2021.

Penney, J. & Cox, F. (2021) Short front vowels and hand-raising in female adolescents from three areas of Sydney, Australian Linguistics Society Conference, Melbourne, December 2021.

Ratko, L., Proctor, M. & Cox, F. (2021) Vowel length dynamics in Australian English, Australian Linguistics Society Conference, Melbourne, December 2021.

Shea, T., Gibson, A., Szakay, A. & Cox, F. (2021) Straight Talking? Straight Men’s Responses to a Male Voice, Australian Linguistics Society Conference, Melbourne, December 2021.

Gibson, A., Cox, F. & Buckley, L. (2021) Hand raising in Australian English-speaking preschoolers, New Ways of Analysing Variation 2021, Austin, Texas (online)

Penney, J., Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2021) Hiatus resolution and prevocalic definite article allomorphy in Australian English, poster presented at NWAV 2021, Austin, Texas (online).

Penney, J. & Cox, F. (2021) Vowel and voice quality differences between mainstream and non-mainstream Australian English speakers, Forum on Englishes in Australia, La Trobe University, August 2021.

Szakay, A., Cox, F., Gibson, A. & Purser, B. (2021) Gladys Berejiklian’s variable pronunciation of “Dr Chant” in COVID-19 press conferences, Forum on Englishes in Australia, La Trobe University, August 2021.

White, H., Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A., & Cox, F. (2020, December, online). Assessment of automatic creaky voice detection tools for sociolinguistic applications. Australian Linguistic Society Conference (ALS 2020).

Cox, F., Penney, J., & Palethorpe, S. (2020, December, online). 50 years of change to the realisation of prevocalic definite article ‘the’ in Australian English. Australian Linguistic Society Conference (ALS 2020).

Gibson, A., Cox, F., Buckley, L., & Penney, J. (2020, December, online). Child Speech, Community Diversity: Baseline Data for Pre-nasal TRAP-raising. Australian Linguistic Society Conference (ALS 2020).

Gibson, A., Cox, F., Buckley, L. & Penney, J. (2020) Alien Adventure! Online icture naming game for pre-schoolers, Forum on Englishes in Australia, La Trobe University, October 2020.

Penney, J. Cox, F. & Szakay, A. (2020) Glottalisation as a voicing cue in phrase-medial and phrase-final positions, LabPhon Vancouver, 6-8 July 2020 (online conference).

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2020) Spectral contrast reduction in Australian English prelateral vowels, LabPhon Vancouver, 6-8 July 2020 (online conference).

Walker, M., Szakay, A. & Cox, F. (2018) Regional priming in Australian English kit, dress and trap vowels, New Ways of Analysing Variation New York, USA, Oct 18-21 2018.

Penney, J., Cox, F. & Szakay, A (2018) Perception of cues to coda stop voicing in Australian English, Forum on Englishes in Australia, La Trobe University Nov 2 2018.

Ratko, L., Proctor, M. & Cox, F. (2018) Temporal and spatial properties of Australian English vowel length, 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia Dec 4-7 2018

Cox, F. Szakay, A., Stelle, E. & Palethorpe, S. (2018) Evidence for regional, gender and age-related variation in the retraction of /s/ in 'Australia', SocioPhonAus2, Brisbane 16-17 July 2018.

Penney, J. Cox, F. & Szakay, A. (2018) Perception of coda stop voicing in younger and older listeners, SocioPhonAus2, Brisbane 16th-17th July 2018.

Penney, J., Cox, F. & Szakay, A (2018) Effects of age, gender, and place of articulation on glottalisation in Australian English, Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland 27-30 June 2018.

Penney, J., Cox, F. & Szakay, A. (2018). Weighting of vowel duration and glottalisation in the perception of coda stop voicing, LabPhon, Lisbon, 19-22 June 2018.

Ratko, L., Proctor, M. & Cox, F. (2018). Articulatory characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English, LabPhon, Lisbon, 19-22 June 2018.

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2018). Coarticulation and Representation: /l/-final Rimes in Australian English, Lisbon, LabPhon, 19-22 June 2018.

Cox, F., Szakay, A., Stelle, E., & Palethorpe, S. (2018) /s/ retraction in 'Aushtralia', NWAV-AP5, Brisbane 1-3 February 2018.

Penney, J., Cox, F. & Szakay, A. (2018) Variation in glottalisation in older and younger Australian English speakers, NWAV-AP5, Brisbane 1-3 February 2018.

Boylan, S., Szakay, A. & Cox, F. (2017) S-retraction in the /stɹ/ onset in Australian English: Sound change in progress? Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Sydney 5-7 December 2017.

Penney, J., Cox, F. & Szakay, A (2017) Glottalisation of coda stops in unstressed syllables, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Sydney 5-7 December 2017.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2017) Rosa's roses revisited for Australian English, Secret 70 symposium – Festschrift for Professor Andy Butcher on the occasion of his 70th birthday. University of Melbourne, 12 October 2017.

Liu, S., Benders, T. & Cox, F. (2016) The effect of vowel duration on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Australian English vowel contrasts in voiced and voiceless coda contexts. 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, December 2016.

Penney, J., Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Miles, K. (2016). Glottalisation and coda stop voicing in Australian English. 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, December 2016.

Chen, H., Xu Rattanasone, N., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2016) Australian English-learning 24-month-olds (but not 18-month-olds) are sensitive to phonemic vowel length. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November 2016.

Szalay, T., Proctor, M. & Cox, F. (2016) The perception of L-influenced vowels in Australian English, SocioPhonAus, Brisbane July 2016.

Yuen, I., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2016) Planning of inserted ‘r’ in the speech of Australian English-speaking children. LabPhon, Ithaca, New York, July 2016.

Chen, H., Xu Rattanasone, N., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2015) Effect of Early Dialectal Exposure on Adult Perception of Phonemic Vowel length. Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Sydney, December 2015.

Chen, H., Xu Rattanasone, N., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2105) Australian English-learning 24-Month-Olds are Sensitive to Phonemic Vowel Length, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Sydney, December 2015.

Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Harrington, J. (2015) Diphthong shift in Australian English, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Sydney, December 2015.

Penney, J., Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Miles, K. (2015) Glottalisation in Australian English: A change in progress. Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Sydney, December 2015.

Tsukada, K., Cox, F., Hajek, J. & Hirata, Y. (2015) Non-native Japanese learners’ perception of consonant length in Italian and Japanese. Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Sydney, December 2015.

Yuen I., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2015) Planning of inserted ‘r’ in the speech of Australian English-speaking children, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Sydney, December 2015.

Tsukada, K., Cox, F. and Hajek, J. (2015). The perception of unfamiliar Italian and Japanese consonant length contrasts by monolingual and bilingual speakers, Bilingualism Symposium - Theory, Practice and Innovation: Social, Cognitive and Linguistic Perspectives in the Study of Bilingualism, University of NSW, June 5.

Xu Rattanasone, N., Demuth, K., & Cox, F. (2015, May). Production of English plurals by 3-year-old monolingual and Mandarin L2-learners of English. 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB10), Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.

Cox, F., Palethorpe, S., Miles, K. & Davies, B. (2014) Is there evidence for region specific vowel variation in /hVd/ word list data from AusTalk? Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Newcastle, December 2014.

German, A., Yuen I., Cox, F., Buckley, L. & Demuth, K. (2014) Perceptual analysis of epenthetic ‘r’ in linking and intrusive contexts in Australian English, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Newcastle, December 2014.

Chen H., Xu Rattanasone, N., Cox, F. and Demuth, K. (2014) Perception and production of phonemic vowel length in Australian English-learning 18 month-olds, LabPhon 14, Tokyo, July 25-27 2014

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2014) Probabilistic Enhancement and Australian English /æ/. Third Workshop on Sound Change, University of California, Berkeley, May 28-31 2014.

Tsukada, K., Cox, F. and Hajek, J. (2014). Perception of sokuon (long/geminate consonants) in Japanese. The International Conference Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), The University of Technology, Sydney and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2013) Contrast Enhancement and Australian English /æ/ change. Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Melbourne, October 2013.

Bentink, S., Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2013) How ‘r’-like is linking r in Australian English, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Melbourne, October 2013.

Yuen, I., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. (2012). Phrase-final lengthening, focus and Australian-English vowel length contrast. Perspectives on Rhythm and Timing (PoRT), University of Glasgow.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, F. (2012) The relationship between oral and nasalised vowels in Australian English /æ/ change. Poster presented at the 2nd Workshop on Sound Change, Kloster Seeon, Germany, 2-4 May, 2012.

Miles, K., Demuth, K., & Cox, F. (2012) The development of coda consonants in early speech. Poster session presented to the 39th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia, 12-15 April.

Mealings, K., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2011) Acoustic Investigations of the –es plural in 2 year-olds' speech. Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Canberra, Dec 2-5.

Miles, K., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2011) The early acquisition of vowel duration contrasts, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Canberra, Dec 2-5.

Xu, N., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2011) Sequential Bilingual (Mandarin-English) Children’s Production of Australian English Codas, Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Canberra, Dec 2-5.

Yuen, I., Cox, F. & Demuth, K. (2011) Phrase-final lengthening, accent, and vowel length contrasts, Workshop on Prosodic Structure. LSA, Boulder, July 13.

Yuen, I. Cox, F. Demuth, K. (2011) Prosodic interactions between vowel length, accent & utterance position, Harvard-Australia Workshop on Language, Learning and Logic, 22nd-26th August 2011, Macquarie University, Sydney.

Burnham, D. et al (2011) Building an audio-visual corpus of Australian English: large corpus collection with an economical portable and replicable Black Box, INTERSPEECH, Florence, 28-31 August 2011.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2011) Timing differences in the VC rhyme of Standard Australian English and Lebanese Australian English, 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, 17-21August.

Kato, A. & Cox, F. (2011) Duration feature learning for an intervocalic voiceless velar stop consonant, 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, 17-21August 201.

Wagner, M et al (2010) The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC), 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, December 14th -16th.

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S (2010) Broadness Variation in Australian English Speaking Females, 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, December 14th -16th

Buckley, L. & Cox, F. (2009) Hiatus resolution in Australian English: Linking /r/. Australian Language and Speech Conference, Sydney, December 3-4.

Kato, A. & Cox, F. (2009) An acoustic study of Japanese vowel contrast produced by Australian English speaking learners. Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA)/ International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), Sydney, July 13-16

Gopalakrishnan, S. Cox, F. & Tsukada, K. (2009) Perception of Malayalam voicing contrasts by non-native listeners from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds: Comparison of Australian English, Hindi and Korean listeners, Speaking Cross Culturally, Sydney, July 6-8.

Cox, F & Palethorpe, S. (2008) Nasalisation of /æ/ and sound change in Australian English, LabPhon 11, Wellington, 30th June-2nd July.

Baker, L. & Cox, F. (2007) Vowel Variability in Children with Down Syndrome: A Preliminary Acoustic Investigation. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Sydney, May 2007

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2006) Open vowels in Australian English: An evolutionary perspective. 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Auckland, December 6-8.

Cox, F. M. & Palethorpe, S. (2006) Some phonetic characteristics of Lebanese Australian English. Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Brisbane, July 7-9. http://www.als.asn.au/

Cox, F. M. & Palethorpe, S. (2004) A Question of Broadness. Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Sydney 13-15 July, 2004.

Cox, F. M., Palethorpe, S. & Tsukada, K. (2004) A Century of Accent Change in Australian English. Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, December.

Cox, F. M. & Palethorpe, S. (2004) Vowel Modification in pre-lateral environments. International Seminars on Speech Production, Sydney.

Other publications

Cox, F.M. (1998) "Australian vowels: Australian identity", Ozwords, 4, 6.

Cox, F. M. (1996) An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Variation in Australian English. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney.

Bottell (Cox), F.M. (1982) A Spectrographic Investigation of /r/ and /w/ in Children's Speech. Unpublished B.A. Honours Thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney.

The Australian National Dictionary Centre provides a very comprehensive list of Australian English resources: Australian National Dictionary Centre Selected Bibliography of Australian English

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