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Dr Marija Tabain

Dr Marija Tabain

Position Senior Lecturer
Room: DMB E321
Tel: +61 3 9479 1521
Fax: +61 3 9479 1520
Email: m.tabain@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BMus. (Hons) (Melb), BA (Hons) (Melb), PhD (Macquarie)

Major Research Areas

  • acoustic phonetics
  • articulatory phonetics
  • cross-linguistic phonetics and phonology
  • coarticulation
  • Australian languages
  • articulatory prosody

Publications


Current Projects

  • The effect of sentence structure on consonant and vowel articulations
  • The relationship between speech production and perception in Australian language speakers (with Andrew Butcher, Flinders University; and Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne)
  • The effects of prosodic structure on segmental articulation
    (Collaborator: Pascal Perrier of the Institut de la Communication Parlée in Grenoble, France).
  • The effects of consonant phoneme inventory on speech production.
    (Collaborators: Gavan Breen of the Institute for Aboriginal Development, Alice Springs; and Andy Butcher of Flinders University, Adelaide).

Current Teaching Areas

LIN11NLA: The Nature of Language A
LIN21/31PHP: Phonetics and Phonology
LIN22/32ADP: Advanced Phonetics
LIN22/32APH: Advanced Phonology

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Post-Graduate Research Coordinator

Professional Associations

  • Australian Linguistic Society
  • Australian Speech Science and Technology Association
  • International Phonetic Association

Professional Activities

Reviewer for:

  • Australian Journal of Linguistics
  • Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Phonetics
  • Journal of the International Phonetic Association
  • Language and Speech
  • Language Variation and Change

Member of conference committee for:

  • Speech Production series of conferences (2003 - approx. 2009)

Member of Organizing Committee for:

  • 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing - Sydney, Australia, 1998
  • 6th International Seminar on Speech Production - Sydney, Australia, 2003

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Last Updated: 18 August, 2009