Felicity Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 637085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felicity Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felicity |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8479-7624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Phonological and Lexical Conditioning of TRAP Vowel Duration in Australian English
The trap vowel /æ/ is known to display a complex variable duration in many English dialects, but this phenomenon is understudied in Australian English. Previous analyses suggest that trap duration is sensitive to the effects of following phonetic environments in complex ways, but that a lexically specific effect may also operate in determining duration. This study aims to investigate phonetic and lexical effects through an acoustic analysis of tr…
Multicultural Australian English – The New Voice of Sydney
Australian English Monophthong Change across 50 Years
Most analyses of monophthong change have historically relied on static acoustic measures. It is unclear the extent to which dynamic measures can shed greater light on monophthong change than can already be captured using such static approaches. In this study, we conducted a real-time trend analysis of vowels in corpora collected from female Mainstream Australian English (MAusE) speakers under 30 years of age across three time periods: the 1960s, …
Influence of pitch and speaker gender on perception of creaky voice
Creaky voice is a non-modal voice quality generally described as sounding pulse-like and low in pitch. While empirical studies have produced mixed results when it comes to creak prevalence by speaker gender, creaky voice is stereotypically associated with women’s speech. Past research has investigated whether listeners are facilitated in their identification of creaky voice through the degree of pitch differences between modal and creaky voice or…
An interdisciplinary approach to enhance children’s listening, learning, and wellbeing in the classroom
Introduction Listening is the gateway to children learning in the mainstream classroom. However, modern classrooms are noisy and dynamic environments making listening challenging. It is therefore critical for researchers from speech and hearing, education, and health sciences to co-design and collaborate to realistically assess how children listen to learn in the classroom and to understand how listening can be improved to enhance children’s lear…
Articulation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English
Acoustic studies have shown that in Australian English (AusE), vowel length contrasts are realised through temporal, spectral and dynamic characteristics. However, relatively little is known about the articulatory differences between long and short vowels in this variety. This study investigates the articulatory properties of three long–short vowel pairs in AusE: /iː–ɪ/ beat – bit , /ɐː–ɐ/ cart – cut and /oː–ɔ/ port – pot , using electromagnetic …
Australian English speakers’ attitudes to fricated coda /t
The fricated allophone of coda /t/ is a variant in which full occlusion of the alveolar stop is not achieved, resulting in the consonant instead being produced via frication. Fricated /t/ is attested in several varieties of English from the British Isles and Southern Hemisphere. While awareness of the variant can be found in Australian popular culture, it has been the focus of few sociophonetic studies. Here we report on an experiment which inves…
Gestural characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English
Fifty years of change to prevocalic definite article allomorphy in Australian English
The English definite article has two major allomorphs: prevocalic /ðiː/ and preconsonantal /ðə/. Recent studies have shown changes to definite article allomorphy in some English varieties. Younger speakers, particularly from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, often use /ðə/ prevocalically rather than /ðiː/. The prevocalic definite article (PVDA) /ðiː/ facilitates management of vowel hiatus because it supports the emergence of [j] …
Glottalisation of word-final stops in Australian English unstressed syllables
Glottalisation functions as a cue to coda stop voicelessness in many varieties of English, occurring most commonly for alveolar stops, although varieties differ according to the context and frequency with which glottalisation is used. In Australian English, younger speakers glottalise voiceless coda stops at much higher rates than older speakers suggesting a recent change to the variety, yet this change has only been examined in stressed syllable…
Phonetics and phonology of Australian English
Australian English differs from other Englishes of the world in its syntax, lexicon and idiom, but it is the constellation of phonetic and phonological features that immediately signal ‘Australian’ to a listener. The phonetic and phonological features determine the characteristics of an individual’s accent and include the fine phonetic detail of voice quality and pitch variation, the precise articulatory and acoustic characteristics of the conson…
Glottalisation as a cue to coda consonant voicing in Australian English
Prosodic effects on the planning of inserted /ɹ/ in Australian English
Australian English Pronunciation and Transcription
Australian English Pronunciation and Transcription is the first textbook to clearly describe Australian English speech patterns. Now in its second edition, this ground-breaking work addresses speech production characteristics and provides detailed instruction in both phonetic and phonemic transcription of the dialect. Each chapter features practical exercises to allow readers to develop skills and test their knowledge as they progress through the…
Non-native Japanese learners’ perception of consonant length in Japanese and Italian
Learners of a foreign language (FL) typically have to learn to process sounds that do not exist in their first language (L1). As this is known to be difficult for adults, in particular, it is important for FL pedagogy to be informed by phonetic research. This study examined the role of FL learners’ previous linguistic experience in the processing of a contrast absent in the L1. The FLs under investigation are Japanese and Italian, which both use …
The prosodic licensing of coda consonants in early speech
English has a word-minimality requirement that all open-class lexical items must contain at least two moras of structure, forming a bimoraic foot (Hayes, 1995).Thus, a word with either a long vowel, or a short vowel and a coda consonant, satisfies this requirement. This raises the question of when and how young children might learn this language-specific constraint, and if they would use coda consonants earlier and more reliably after short vowel…
The syllabic status of final consonants in early speech
Young children's first attempts at CVC words are often realized with the final consonant being heavily aspirated or followed by an epenthetic vowel (e.g. cat /kæt/ realized as [kæt h ] or [kæt ə ]). This has led some to propose that young children represent word-final (coda) consonants as an onset-nucleus sequence (CV.C v ) (e.g. Goad & Brannen, 2003), raising questions about the syllabic status of the final consonant. To address this issue, we c…
Phonetic Archaeology and 50 Years of Change to Australian English /iː
The work reported here explores the issue of Australian English accent broadness, past and present, through a diachronic acoustic analysis of the vowel,drawing on archival data collected by Mitchell and Delbridge in the late 1950s and early 1960s and more recent data from the Australian Voices project. Data from 168 female speakers from the Mitchell and Delbridge survey and 70 female speakers from the Australian Voices project were examined. All …
Hiatus resolution and linking 'r' in Australian English
Hiatus occurs when the juxtaposition of syllables results in two separate vowels occurring alongside one another. Such vowel adjacency, both within words and across word boundaries, is phonologically undesirable in many languages but can be resolved using a range of strategies including consonant insertion. This paper examines linguistic and extralinguistic factors that best predict the likelihood of inserted linking 'r' across word boundaries in…
Australian English
Australian English is a regional dialect of English which shares its phonemic inventory with Southern British English through the historical connection with the dialects of the British Isles (in particular London) in the late 18th
The Acoustic Characteristics of /hVd/ Vowels in the Speech of some Australian Teenagers
The study presents an acoustic examination of the 18 stressed monophthongs and diphthongs of Standard Australian English, detailing the frequency and durational characteristics of these vowels produced in the hVd context by 60 male and 60 female adolescent talkers from Sydney. It entails a rigorous acoustic analysis using objective signal processing techniques to detail vowel structure in a strictly controlled fashion. The paper additionally prov…
The Bernard data revisited∗
For the past thirty years John Bernard's acoustic analysis of Australian English vowels (Bernard 1967, 1970) has remained the standard vowel reference for Australian speech researchers. The published papers present a set of data which is generally considered to be representative of vowel productions across the range of accent types available to speakers of the dialect. The present paper provides a reanalysis and reintetpretation of some aspects o…
An acoustic phonetic study of broad, general, and cultivated Australian English vowels
The focus of this paper is an acoustic analysis of citation‐form monophthongs and diphthongs produced by a large number of male and female talkers whose accents vary from broad to general to cultivated and who were recorded as part of the Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL). Following an initial auditory categorisation of the talkers’ accents, the formants frequencies were calculated and the data were labelled for vowel targe…
An acoustic phonetic study of broad, general, and cultivated Australian English vowels
The focus of this paper is an acoustic analysis of citation‐form monophthongs and diphthongs produced by a large number of male and female talkers whose accents vary from broad to general to cultivated and who were recorded as part of the Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL). Following an initial auditory categorisation of the talkers’ accents, the formants frequencies were calculated and the data were labelled for vowel targe…
Australian English
Australian English is a regional dialect of English which shares its phonemic inventory with Southern British English through the historical connection with the dialects of the British Isles (in particular London) in the late 18th
The Acoustic Characteristics of /hVd/ Vowels in the Speech of some Australian Teenagers
The study presents an acoustic examination of the 18 stressed monophthongs and diphthongs of Standard Australian English, detailing the frequency and durational characteristics of these vowels produced in the hVd context by 60 male and 60 female adolescent talkers from Sydney. It entails a rigorous acoustic analysis using objective signal processing techniques to detail vowel structure in a strictly controlled fashion. The paper additionally prov…
Glottalisation as a cue to coda consonant voicing in Australian English
Phonetic Archaeology and 50 Years of Change to Australian English /iː
The work reported here explores the issue of Australian English accent broadness, past and present, through a diachronic acoustic analysis of the vowel,drawing on archival data collected by Mitchell and Delbridge in the late 1950s and early 1960s and more recent data from the Australian Voices project. Data from 168 female speakers from the Mitchell and Delbridge survey and 70 female speakers from the Australian Voices project were examined. All …
The Bernard data revisited∗
For the past thirty years John Bernard's acoustic analysis of Australian English vowels (Bernard 1967, 1970) has remained the standard vowel reference for Australian speech researchers. The published papers present a set of data which is generally considered to be representative of vowel productions across the range of accent types available to speakers of the dialect. The present paper provides a reanalysis and reintetpretation of some aspects o…
Multicultural Australian English – The New Voice of Sydney
Non-native Japanese learners’ perception of consonant length in Japanese and Italian
Learners of a foreign language (FL) typically have to learn to process sounds that do not exist in their first language (L1). As this is known to be difficult for adults, in particular, it is important for FL pedagogy to be informed by phonetic research. This study examined the role of FL learners’ previous linguistic experience in the processing of a contrast absent in the L1. The FLs under investigation are Japanese and Italian, which both use …
Hiatus resolution and linking 'r' in Australian English
Hiatus occurs when the juxtaposition of syllables results in two separate vowels occurring alongside one another. Such vowel adjacency, both within words and across word boundaries, is phonologically undesirable in many languages but can be resolved using a range of strategies including consonant insertion. This paper examines linguistic and extralinguistic factors that best predict the likelihood of inserted linking 'r' across word boundaries in…
Australian English Monophthong Change across 50 Years
Most analyses of monophthong change have historically relied on static acoustic measures. It is unclear the extent to which dynamic measures can shed greater light on monophthong change than can already be captured using such static approaches. In this study, we conducted a real-time trend analysis of vowels in corpora collected from female Mainstream Australian English (MAusE) speakers under 30 years of age across three time periods: the 1960s, …
Gestural characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English
Fifty years of change to prevocalic definite article allomorphy in Australian English
The English definite article has two major allomorphs: prevocalic /ðiː/ and preconsonantal /ðə/. Recent studies have shown changes to definite article allomorphy in some English varieties. Younger speakers, particularly from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, often use /ðə/ prevocalically rather than /ðiː/. The prevocalic definite article (PVDA) /ðiː/ facilitates management of vowel hiatus because it supports the emergence of [j] …
Influence of pitch and speaker gender on perception of creaky voice
Creaky voice is a non-modal voice quality generally described as sounding pulse-like and low in pitch. While empirical studies have produced mixed results when it comes to creak prevalence by speaker gender, creaky voice is stereotypically associated with women’s speech. Past research has investigated whether listeners are facilitated in their identification of creaky voice through the degree of pitch differences between modal and creaky voice or…
Prosodic effects on the planning of inserted /ɹ/ in Australian English
An acoustic phonetic study of broad, general, and cultivated Australian English vowels
The focus of this paper is an acoustic analysis of citation‐form monophthongs and diphthongs produced by a large number of male and female talkers whose accents vary from broad to general to cultivated and who were recorded as part of the Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL). Following an initial auditory categorisation of the talkers’ accents, the formants frequencies were calculated and the data were labelled for vowel targe…
The Bernard data revisited∗
For the past thirty years John Bernard's acoustic analysis of Australian English vowels (Bernard 1967, 1970) has remained the standard vowel reference for Australian speech researchers. The published papers present a set of data which is generally considered to be representative of vowel productions across the range of accent types available to speakers of the dialect. The present paper provides a reanalysis and reintetpretation of some aspects o…
The Acoustic Characteristics of /hVd/ Vowels in the Speech of some Australian Teenagers
The study presents an acoustic examination of the 18 stressed monophthongs and diphthongs of Standard Australian English, detailing the frequency and durational characteristics of these vowels produced in the hVd context by 60 male and 60 female adolescent talkers from Sydney. It entails a rigorous acoustic analysis using objective signal processing techniques to detail vowel structure in a strictly controlled fashion. The paper additionally prov…
Australian English
Australian English is a regional dialect of English which shares its phonemic inventory with Southern British English through the historical connection with the dialects of the British Isles (in particular London) in the late 18th
Phonetic Archaeology and 50 Years of Change to Australian English /iː
The work reported here explores the issue of Australian English accent broadness, past and present, through a diachronic acoustic analysis of the vowel,drawing on archival data collected by Mitchell and Delbridge in the late 1950s and early 1960s and more recent data from the Australian Voices project. Data from 168 female speakers from the Mitchell and Delbridge survey and 70 female speakers from the Australian Voices project were examined. All …
Hiatus resolution and linking 'r' in Australian English
Hiatus occurs when the juxtaposition of syllables results in two separate vowels occurring alongside one another. Such vowel adjacency, both within words and across word boundaries, is phonologically undesirable in many languages but can be resolved using a range of strategies including consonant insertion. This paper examines linguistic and extralinguistic factors that best predict the likelihood of inserted linking 'r' across word boundaries in…
The syllabic status of final consonants in early speech
Young children's first attempts at CVC words are often realized with the final consonant being heavily aspirated or followed by an epenthetic vowel (e.g. cat /kæt/ realized as [kæt h ] or [kæt ə ]). This has led some to propose that young children represent word-final (coda) consonants as an onset-nucleus sequence (CV.C v ) (e.g. Goad & Brannen, 2003), raising questions about the syllabic status of the final consonant. To address this issue, we c…
The prosodic licensing of coda consonants in early speech
English has a word-minimality requirement that all open-class lexical items must contain at least two moras of structure, forming a bimoraic foot (Hayes, 1995).Thus, a word with either a long vowel, or a short vowel and a coda consonant, satisfies this requirement. This raises the question of when and how young children might learn this language-specific constraint, and if they would use coda consonants earlier and more reliably after short vowel…
Australian English Pronunciation and Transcription
Australian English Pronunciation and Transcription is the first textbook to clearly describe Australian English speech patterns. Now in its second edition, this ground-breaking work addresses speech production characteristics and provides detailed instruction in both phonetic and phonemic transcription of the dialect. Each chapter features practical exercises to allow readers to develop skills and test their knowledge as they progress through the…
Non-native Japanese learners’ perception of consonant length in Japanese and Italian
Learners of a foreign language (FL) typically have to learn to process sounds that do not exist in their first language (L1). As this is known to be difficult for adults, in particular, it is important for FL pedagogy to be informed by phonetic research. This study examined the role of FL learners’ previous linguistic experience in the processing of a contrast absent in the L1. The FLs under investigation are Japanese and Italian, which both use …
Glottalisation as a cue to coda consonant voicing in Australian English
Prosodic effects on the planning of inserted /ɹ/ in Australian English
Phonetics and phonology of Australian English
Australian English differs from other Englishes of the world in its syntax, lexicon and idiom, but it is the constellation of phonetic and phonological features that immediately signal ‘Australian’ to a listener. The phonetic and phonological features determine the characteristics of an individual’s accent and include the fine phonetic detail of voice quality and pitch variation, the precise articulatory and acoustic characteristics of the conson…
Glottalisation of word-final stops in Australian English unstressed syllables
Glottalisation functions as a cue to coda stop voicelessness in many varieties of English, occurring most commonly for alveolar stops, although varieties differ according to the context and frequency with which glottalisation is used. In Australian English, younger speakers glottalise voiceless coda stops at much higher rates than older speakers suggesting a recent change to the variety, yet this change has only been examined in stressed syllable…
An interdisciplinary approach to enhance children’s listening, learning, and wellbeing in the classroom
Introduction Listening is the gateway to children learning in the mainstream classroom. However, modern classrooms are noisy and dynamic environments making listening challenging. It is therefore critical for researchers from speech and hearing, education, and health sciences to co-design and collaborate to realistically assess how children listen to learn in the classroom and to understand how listening can be improved to enhance children’s lear…
Articulation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English
Acoustic studies have shown that in Australian English (AusE), vowel length contrasts are realised through temporal, spectral and dynamic characteristics. However, relatively little is known about the articulatory differences between long and short vowels in this variety. This study investigates the articulatory properties of three long–short vowel pairs in AusE: /iː–ɪ/ beat – bit , /ɐː–ɐ/ cart – cut and /oː–ɔ/ port – pot , using electromagnetic …
Australian English speakers’ attitudes to fricated coda /t
The fricated allophone of coda /t/ is a variant in which full occlusion of the alveolar stop is not achieved, resulting in the consonant instead being produced via frication. Fricated /t/ is attested in several varieties of English from the British Isles and Southern Hemisphere. While awareness of the variant can be found in Australian popular culture, it has been the focus of few sociophonetic studies. Here we report on an experiment which inves…
Gestural characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English
Fifty years of change to prevocalic definite article allomorphy in Australian English
The English definite article has two major allomorphs: prevocalic /ðiː/ and preconsonantal /ðə/. Recent studies have shown changes to definite article allomorphy in some English varieties. Younger speakers, particularly from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, often use /ðə/ prevocalically rather than /ðiː/. The prevocalic definite article (PVDA) /ðiː/ facilitates management of vowel hiatus because it supports the emergence of [j] …
Multicultural Australian English – The New Voice of Sydney
Australian English Monophthong Change across 50 Years
Most analyses of monophthong change have historically relied on static acoustic measures. It is unclear the extent to which dynamic measures can shed greater light on monophthong change than can already be captured using such static approaches. In this study, we conducted a real-time trend analysis of vowels in corpora collected from female Mainstream Australian English (MAusE) speakers under 30 years of age across three time periods: the 1960s, …
Influence of pitch and speaker gender on perception of creaky voice
Creaky voice is a non-modal voice quality generally described as sounding pulse-like and low in pitch. While empirical studies have produced mixed results when it comes to creak prevalence by speaker gender, creaky voice is stereotypically associated with women’s speech. Past research has investigated whether listeners are facilitated in their identification of creaky voice through the degree of pitch differences between modal and creaky voice or…
Phonological and Lexical Conditioning of TRAP Vowel Duration in Australian English
The trap vowel /æ/ is known to display a complex variable duration in many English dialects, but this phenomenon is understudied in Australian English. Previous analyses suggest that trap duration is sensitive to the effects of following phonetic environments in complex ways, but that a lexically specific effect may also operate in determining duration. This study aims to investigate phonetic and lexical effects through an acoustic analysis of tr…
Linguistics (20 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (20 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (19 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Vowel (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · History (10 works) · Acoustics (8 works) · Australian English (8 works) · Coda (7 works)