Janet Fletcher
List of John Benjamins publications in which Janet Fletcher is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 18. Prosodic effects on glottal stop realization and voice quality variation in a corpus study of Tahitian The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 464–486 | Chapter
Languages with “simple” phonological inventories are often neglected in traditional descriptive phonetic research in favour of those with more varied segmental and prosodic features. Tahitian (Eastern Polynesian) is a prime example with no experimental phonetic investigation of the language in… read more
2017 Can you t[æ]ll I’m from M[æ]lbourne? An overview of the dress and trap vowels before /l/ as a regional accent marker in Australian English English World-Wide 38:1, pp. 29–49 | Article
This study gives an overview of the merger of the dress and trap vowels before laterals, which occurs for some speakers of Australian English in the state of Victoria (in the south-east of the country), as well as in some other varieties of English. Research on this phenomenon in Australian… read more