Publications
Please feel free to get in touch with me if you'd like a copy of any of the papers/conference slides listed below or elsewhere. Note that my Google Scholar page might be slightly more up-to-date than this page.
Conference Proceedings & Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
Frost, K., Clothier, J., Huisman, A., & Wigglesworth, G. (2020). Responding to a TOEFL iBT integrated speaking: mapping task demands and test takers' use of stimulus content. Language Testing.
Clothier, J. (2019). A sociophonetic analysis of /l/ darkness and Lebanese Australian ethnic identity in Australian English. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. Link to paper. Link to slides.
Clothier, J., & Loakes, D. (2018). Coronal stop VOT in Australian English: Lebanese Australians and mainstream Australian English. In J. Epps, J. Wolfe, J. Smith, & C. Jones (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Sydney, Australia: UNSW.
Loakes, D., McDougall, K., Clothier, J., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (2018). Sociophonetic variability of post-vocalic /t/ in Aboriginal and mainstream Australian English. In J. Epps, J. Wolfe, J. Smith, & C. Jones (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Sydney, Australia: UNSW.
Diskin, C., Loakes, D., & Clothier, J. (2018). Varietal differences in categorisation of /ɪ e æ/ A case study of Irish and Australian English listeners in Melbourne. In J. Epps, J. Wolfe, J. Smith, & C. Jones (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Sydney, Australia: UNSW.
Clothier, J. (2010). Worrying and wondering phonetically: Evidence for a case of sociophonetic variation in Melbourne speakers of Australian English. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Melbourne, Australia: Causal.
Book chapters
Clothier, J. (2019). Ethnolectal variability in Australian Englishes. In L. Willoughby & H. Manns (Eds.), Australian English Reimagined: Structure, Features and Developments (pp. 155-172). London: Routledge.
Conference Presentations (peer-reviewed)
2018 Clothier, J., Fletcher, J., & Loakes, D. The relationship between English voice onset time and ethnic identity among Lebanese-Australians in Melbourne. Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland, NZ.
2018 Clothier, J., Fletcher, J., & Loakes, D. Voice onset time, bilingualism, and Lebanese-Australian ethnic identity in Australian English. New Ways of Analysing Variation - Asia Pacific 5, Brisbane, Qld.
2018 Diskin, C., Loakes, D., Stoakes, H. M., Clothier, J., & Billington, R. Variation in Australian English and migrant Irish English laterals: A sociophonetic and articulatory study. New Ways of Analysing Variation Asia-Pacific 5, Brisbane, Qld.
2018 Clothier, J., Fletcher, J., & Loakes, D. Australian English voice onset time and Lebanese-Australian ethnic identity. The 2018 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
2017 Clothier, J., Fletcher, J., & Loakes, D. Voice onset time in the Australian English stops of speakers with Lebanese heritage. Language Variation and Change – Australia (3) / Australian Linguistics Society Pre-conference Workshop, Sydney.
2016 Clothier, J., & Loakes, D. /l/ vocalisation and ethnic orientation in Melburnian Australian English speakers with Lebanese heritage. Inaugural workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in English Varieties of Australia, Brisbane, Qld.
2016 Loakes, D., Fletcher, J., Hajek, J., & Clothier, J. Does the /el/-/æl/ merger occur in Queensland? Investigating a south-eastern merger in the north. Inaugural workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in English Varieties of Australia, Brisbane, Qld.
2015 Clothier, J. Syllable structure in “Lebanese Australian English”. The 7th Annual Roundtable of Language and Society Centre, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Vic.
2014 Clothier, J. Heading South: Phonetic differences in word final -er in speakers from Lebanese- and Anglo-Celtic Australian ethnic groups. Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Newcastle, NSW.
2014 Clothier, J. (2014). Adapting the Ethnic Orientation questionnaire for use in a sociophonetic investigation of ethnolectal variation in Melbourne. New Ways of Analysing Variation - Asia Pacific 3, Wellington, NZ.
2012 Clothier, J., & Loakes, D. (2012). Patterns of vowel perception and production in the /el/-/æl/ sound change in regional Victoria. The Australian Linguistic Society 2012 Conference, Perth, WA.
Public science communication / media
A few colleagues and I share a guilty passion for the TV show Gogglebox, so we decided to write about what it can tell us about sociolinguistic variation in Australian English.
2017 Gogglebox and what it tells us about English in Australia (with Greg Dickson and Evan Kidd). The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/gogglebox-and-what-it-tells-us-about-english-in-australia-75295 (republished across the Fairfax Media network including the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age). 5 April 2017.
Peer reviewed posters
2016 Clothier, J., & Loakes, D. Amplitude and /l/ vocalisation: insights from individual speakers. The 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, NSW.
2016 Loakes, D., Fletcher, J., Hajek, J., & Clothier, J. What reaction times reveal about listener groups: L1 Aboriginal English and Standard Australian English responses to a prelateral merger-in-progress. Laboratory Phonology 15, Ithaca, NY.
2012 Loakes, D., Clothier, J., Hajek, J., & Fletcher, J. (2012). Where the bloody h[ae]l are we? Mapping the acoustics of sound change(s) in South-Eastern Australia. Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing 2nd Workshop on Sound Change, Bavaria, Germany.