About The Speaker

Janet Fletcher is Professor of Phonetics in the School of Languages and Linguistics. She has held previous appointments at the University of Edinburgh, the Ohio State University, and Macquarie University. Her research interests include phonetic theory, laboratory phonology, prosodic phonology, articulatory and acoustic modelling of prosodic effects in various languages. She is currently working on phonetic variation, and prosody, and intonation in Indigenous Australian languages. She is a member of the Research Unit for Indigenous Language in the School of Languages and Linguistics and is a Chief Investigator in the University of Melbourne node of the Centre of Excellence “Dynamics of Language”.

Main areas of research
Phonetics theory, prosodic phonology, laboratory phonology, and articulatory and acoustic modelling of prosodic effects in various languages, particularly indigenous Australian languages and French.

Selected Publications

• (2014) Fletcher, Janet. ‘Intonation and Prosody in Dalabon.’ In Jun S (ed), Prosodic Typology II, pp. 252–272. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• (2011) Tabain. M., J. Fletcher and A. Butcher. ‘An EPG study of Palatal Consonants in two Australian languages’, Language and Speech, vol. 54, issue 2, pp. 265–282.
• (2010) Fletcher, Janet. ‘The Prosody of Speech: Timing and Rhythm,’ in W. Hardcastle, J. Laver and F. Gibbon (eds), The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 523–602. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
• (2007) Yallop, Clark and Janet Fletcher. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Blackwell Publishers.