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Selected Publications

Cox, F. M. and Palethorpe, S. (under review) Standard Australian English: The Sociostylistic Broadness Continuum

Lonergan, J. & Cox, F. (forthcoming) Is there any evidence of rhoticity in historical Australian English, Proceedings of the Australian Linguistic Society Conference 2008, Sydney, July 2-4 (accepted 28.7.09)

Cox, F. M. and Palethorpe, S. (2010) Broadness variation in Australian English speaking females, Proceedings of the 12th Proceedings of the 12th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, 14th-16th December, 2010

Wagner, M. et al (2010) The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC), Proceedings of the 12th Proceedings of the 12th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, 14th-16th December, 2010

Burnham, D. et al (2009) A Blueprint for a Comprehensive Australian English Auditory-Visual Speech Corpus, in Haugh, M., Burridge, K. Mulder J. & Peters, P. Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, 96-107
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/ausnc/2008/index.html

Cox, F. and Palethorpe, S. (2008) Reversal of short front vowel raising in Australian English, Proceedings of. Interspeech 2008, 22nd-26th September 2008, Brisbane, 342-345.

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

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

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

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

Kato, A. and Cox, F. (2006) Development of Japanese length contrast: A longitudinal study of L2 vowels produced by Australian learners of Japanese. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Auckland, December 2006, 170-175. http://www.assta.org/sst/2006/frontmatter.html

Cox, F. and 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, 1-14

Cox, F. and Palethorpe, S. (2001) "The changing face of Australian English vowels". In Blair, D.B. and Collins, P (eds).Varieties of English Around the World: English in Australia: John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, 17-44.

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

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

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.

Bottell (Cox), F. and Clark, J.E. (1986) "/r/ misarticulation in children's speech" in Proceedings of the First Australian Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Canberra.

Other Publications

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

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.

Conference Presentations

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (2010) Broadness variation in Australian English speaking females, Paper presented at the 12th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, 14th-16th December

Buckley, L. & Cox, F. (2009) Hiatus resolution in Australian English: Linking /r/. Paper to be presented at the 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. Paper presented at the joint Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA)/ International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), Sydney, July 13-16.

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

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

Cox, F. and Palethorpe, S. (2008) Reversal of short front vowel raising in Australian English, Paper presented at Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, September 22-26.

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.

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

Cox, F. M. (2006) Shape shift: Australian English sound change, Keynote address at the Australian Linguistic Society Conference and the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Brisbane 8 July, 2006. http://www.als.asn.au/

Cox, F.& Palethorpe, S. (2006) Open vowels in Australian English: An evolutionary perspective. Paper presented at the 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. Paper presented at the Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Brisbane, July 7-9.

Cox, F & Palethorpe, S. (2005) A preliminary acoustic phonetic examination of Lebanese Australian English. Paper presented at the Australian Language and Speech Conference, Sydney, December 13-15

Cox, F. M. (2005) Australian English pronunciation into the 21st Century. Keynote address at the AMEP Conference, October, Sydney

Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Tsukada, K (2004) One hundred years of accent change in Australian English. Paper presented at the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney December 6-10

Cox, F & Palethorpe, S. (2004) A Question of Broadness. Paper presented at the Australian Linguistic Society Conference, July 13-15

Palethorpe, S. & Cox, F. (2003) Vowel modification in pre-lateral environments. Poster presented at the International Seminars on Speech Production, December, Sydney. ISBN 1 86408 871 0

Cox, F., Palethorpe, S., Carey, M. & Squires, S. (2003) The border effect: Vowel differences across the NSW / Victorian border. Paper presented at the Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference

Cox, F. & Palethorpe, S. (1997) “Vowel change” Paper presented at the Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Armidale

Cox, F. (1997) “Age differences as evidence of vowel change in Australian English”, Paper presented at the Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Australian English Workshop, Armidale.