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Professor Felicity Cox is a prominent linguist at Macquarie University's Department of Linguistics, affiliated with the Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) and the Hearing Research Centre. She holds an ARC Future Fellowship (2018–2022) for research on multicultural Australian English and leads the AusKidTalk project, a major speech corpus initiative. Her work focuses on phonetics, sound change, and sociolinguistics, particularly in Australian English variation and language acquisition.
Research Interests:
- Phonetic analysis of sound change
- Acquisition of phonological systems in children
- Speech production and perception in diverse populations
- Language variation and urban dialects
Recent Research Trends: Recent studies emphasize vowel shifts, creaky voice variation, and articulatory patterns in Australian English, with a focus on sociolinguistic and acoustic correlates. Projects like Multicultural Australian English: The New Voice of Sydney explore ethnolectal influences and community diversity.
Awards and Grants:
- ARC Future Fellowship (2018–2022)
- Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
- ARC Linkage Grant for AusKidTalk (2019)
Advising and Teams: Supervised 4 recent PhD students focusing on topics like glottalisation, creaky voice, and vowel articulation. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams on speech corpus development and classroom acoustics.
Labs and Facilities: Leads the Visualising Voice and Speech (VisVoiS) project, integrating experimental and clinical speech research. Active in the AusTalk and AusKidTalk corpus initiatives.
