Coralie Cram and I have a poster at the LSA in New York (Jan 4-8 2024) looking into variation in palatal stops in 11 Australian languages. This is proof of concept work looking at the structure of variation in duration, release burst presence, and intensity contours for palatals. It’s also a chance for us to figure out a pipeline for the corpus materials we are collecting and preparing.

Here’s the full poster: LSA2024_Palatals

References

Babinski, Sarah. 2020. Lexical stress: Phonetic variation under phonological stability in 23 Australian languages. In LabPhon17. online.

Babinski, Sarah. 2022. Archival Phonetics & Prosodic Typology in Sixteen Australian Languages. Yale University.

Dixon, R. M. W. 1980. The languages of Australia (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fletcher, Janet & Andrew Butcher. 2014. Sound patterns of Australian languages. In Harold Koch & Rachel Nordlinger (eds.), The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

Round, Erich R. 2023. Segment inventories. In Claire Bowern (ed.), The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages (Oxford Guides to the World’s Languages), Chapter 10. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

Tabain, Marija. 2023. Articulatory and acoustic phonetics. In Claire Bowern (ed.), The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages (Oxford Guides to the World’s Languages), Chapter 9. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

Tabain, Marija & Richard Beare. 2011. A Spectral Analysis of Stop Bursts in Pitjantjatjara. In ICPhS, 1934–1937.