Publications prior to 2007

Books

Harrington, J. & Cassidy, S. (1999). Techniques in Speech Acoustics. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Foris, Dordrecht. ISBN: 0-7923-5731-0.

Edited volumes

Harrington, J., and Tabain, M. (2006) Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques. Psychology Press: New York.

Bird, S. and Harrington, J. (Editors) (2001). Guest Editors for Special Issue on Speech Annotation and Corpora. Speech Communication. Vol. 33, 1-174.

International peer-reviewed journals

Harrington, J. (2006). An acoustic analysis of ‘happy-tensing’ in the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts, Journal of Phonetics. 34 439–457.

Rastle, K., Croot, K., Harrington, J., & Coltheart, M. (2005). Characterizing the motor execution stage of speech production: Consonantal effects on delayed naming latency and onset duration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31(5), 1083-1095.

Rastle, K., Harrington, J., and Coltheart, M. (2002). 358,534 Nonwords: The ARC nonword database. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2002,55A(4), 1339–1362.

Bird, S. and Harrington, J. (2001). Speech annotation and corpus tools. Speech Communication, 33, 1-4.

Fletcher, J. and Harrington, J. (2001). High Rising Terminals and fall-rise tunes in Australian English. Phonetica, 58:215–229.

Cassidy, S. and Harrington, J. (2001). Multi-level annotation in the Emu speech database management system. Speech Communication, 33, 61-77.

Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., and Watson, C. (2000). Does the Queen speak the Queen's English? Nature, 408, 927-928.

Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., and Watson, C. (2000). Monophthongal vowel changes in Received Pronunciation: an acoustic analysis of the Queen’s Christmas Broadcasts. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 63-78.

Watson, C. I., Maclagan, M., and Harrington J. (2000). Acoustic evidence for vowel change in New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change, 12, 51-68.

Rastle, K., Harrington, J., Coltheart, M., Palethorpe, S. (2000). Reading aloud begins when the computation of phonology finishes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 1178-1191.

Watson, C.I. and Harrington, J. (1999). Acoustic evidence for dynamic formant trajectories in Australian English Vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, 458-468.

Watson C.I., Harrington, J. & Evans, Z. (1998). An acoustic comparison between New Zealand and Australian English vowels. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 18, 2, 185-208.

Harrington, J., Cox F., and Evans, Z. (1997). An acoustic phonetic study of broad, general, and cultivated Australian English vowels. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 17, 155-184.

Millar, J., Dermody, P., Harrington, J., and Vonwiller, J. (1997). Spoken Language Resources for Australian Speech Technology. Journal Of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Australia, 1, 13-23.

Cassidy, S. & Harrington, J. (1995). The place of articulation distinction in voiced oral stops: evidence from burst spectra and formant transitions. Phonetica, 52, 263-284.

Harrington, J., Fletcher, J. & Roberts, C. (1995). An analysis of truncation and linear rescaling in the production of accented and unaccented vowels. Journal of Phonetics, 23, 305-322.

Harrington, J. (1994) The contribution of the murmur and vowel to the place of articulation distinction in nasal consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 19-32.

Harrington, J. & Cassidy, S. (1994). Target and dynamic theories of vowel perception: evidence from a large speech corpus. Language & Speech, 37, 357-373.

Harrington, J., Cassidy, S., Fletcher, J. and McVeigh, A. (1993). The mu+ system for corpus-based speech research. Computer Speech & Language, 7, 305-331.

Harrington, J., Watson, G. & Cooper, M. (1989) Word boundary detection in broad class and phoneme strings. Computer Speech & Language, 3, 367-382.

Harrington, J. (1988). Stuttering, delayed auditory feedback and linguistic rhythm. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 31, 36-47.

Harrington, J. (1988). Reply to G. Borden's comments (Letter to the editor) Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 31, 138-140.

Harrington, J. & Johnstone, A. (1987). The effects of equivalence classes on parsing phonemes into words in continuous speech recognition. Computer Speech & Language, 2, 273-288.

Chapter contributions to books

Harrington, J. & Tabain, M. (2006). Introduction. In J. Harrington & M. Tabain (Eds.), Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques. Psychology Press: New York.

Harrington, J. & Mooshammer, C. (2006). Speech Production. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. ISBN 0-08-044299-4.

Harrington, J. (2005) Phonetics. In P. Strazny (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Routledge, (ISBN: 1-57958-391-1.)

Harrington, J. (2005). Spectral analysis. In P. Strazny (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Routledge, (ISBN: 1-57958-391-1.).

Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S. and Watson, C. (2005). Deepening or lessening the divide between diphthongs? An analysis of the Queen’s annual Christmas broadcasts. In W.J. Hardcastle & J. Beck (eds). The Gift of Speech (Festschrift for John Laver). Erlbaum. (pp. 227-261).

Harrington, J. (2003). Consonant strengthening and lengthening in various languages: comments on three papers. In J. Local, R. Ogden, R. Temple (Eds.). Laboratory Phonology VI. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (pp. 183-193).

Harrington, J., Fletcher, J. and Beckman, M.E. (2000). Manner and place conflicts in the articulation of accent in Australian English. In Broe M. (editor), Papers in Laboratory Phonology, 5. (p. 40-55). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Fletcher, J. & Harrington, J. (1999). Lip and jaw coarticulation. In W.J. Hardcastle & N. Hewlett (eds). Coarticulation. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (p. 144-175).

Harrington, J. (1988). Acoustic cues for the recognition of English consonants. In Jack M. & Laver J.

(eds.) Aspects of Speech Technology (p. 69-143). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.

Harrington, J. (1987). An acoustic and electropalatographic study of stuttered speech. In Peters H. & Hulstijn W. (eds.) Speech Motor Dynamics in Stuttering (p. 381-392). Springer- Verlag: New York.

Harrington, J. (1987). A model of stuttering and the production of speech under delayed auditory feedback conditions. In Peters H. & Hulstijn W. (eds.) Speech Motor Dynamics in Stuttering (p. 353- 359). Springer-Verlag: New York.

Conference proceedings

Bombien, L., Cassidy, S., Harrington, J., John, T., Palethorpe, S. (2006). Recent Developments in the Emu Speech Database System. Proceedings of the Australian Speech Science and Technology Conference, Auckland, December 2006.

Rathcke, T., & Harrington, J. (2006). Is there a distinction between H+!H* and H+L* in standard German? Evidence from an acoustic and auditory analysis. Proceedings of the International Speech Prosody Conference, Dresden.

Watson, C., Palethorpe, S., Harrington, J. (2004). Capturing The vowel change In New Zealand English over a thirty year period via A diachronic study. In Proceedings of 9^th Australian Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney, 2004 (4 pages).

Butcher, A. & Harrington, J. (2003). An instrumental analysis of focus and juncture in Warlpiri. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August 2003. (4 pages).

Harrington, J., Cassidy, S., John, T. and Scheffers, M. (2003). Building an interface between EMU and Praat: a modular approach to speech database analysis. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August 2003. (4 pages).

Stephenson, L. & Harrington, J. (2002). Assimilation of place of articulation: Evidence from English and Japanese. Proceedings of the 9^th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, The University of Melbourne, Australia (4 pages).

Onaka, A., Watson, C. , Palethorpe, S. and Harrington, J. (2002). Acoustic and articulatory difference of speech segments at different prosodic conditions. Proceedings of the 9^th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, The University of Melbourne, Australia (4 pages).

Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S. and Watson, C. (2000). Vowel change in Received Pronunciation: evidence from the Queen's English. Proceedings of the 7th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. (4 pages).

Palethorpe, S., Beckman, M.E., Fletcher, J. and Harrington, J. (1999). The contribution of schwa vowels to the prosodic accent contrast in Australian English. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco. (4 pages)..

Harrington, J., Beckman, M.E., Fletcher, J. and Palethorpe, S. (1998). An electropalatographic, kinematic, and acoustic analysis of supralaryngeal correlates of word and utterance-level prominence contrasts in English. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. (4 pages). (p. 1851-1854).

Watson, C.I., Harrington, J. and Palethorpe, S. (1998). A kinematic analysis of New Zealand and Australian English vowel spaces. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. (4 pages). (p. 2363-2366).

Fletcher, J., Beckman, M. and Harrington, J. (1996). Accentual-prominence-enhancing strategies in Australian English. Proceedings of the 6th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. (p. 577-580).

Fletcher, J. and Harrington, J. (1996). Timing of intonational events in Australian English. In P. McCormack & A. Russell (eds.) Proceedings of the VIth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Speech Technology , pp 611-616.

Cassidy, S. and Harrington, J. (1996). EMU: an enhanced hierarchical speech database management system. Proceedings of the 6th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (p. 361-366).

Harrington, J. & So, L. (1994). Some design criteria in the annotation of a spoken database of Cantonese. Fifth International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Perth, Australia. (4 pages).

Fletcher, J., Harrington, J. and Hajek, J. (1994). Phonemic vowel length and prosody in Australian English. Proceedings of the fifth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Speech Technology, Perth, Australia, (p. 656‑661).

Millar, J.B., Vonwiller, J.P., Harrington, J. and Dermody, P.J. (1994). The Australian National Database Of Spoken Language, Proceedings International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP‑94, Adelaide, (pp.I97‑I100).

Harrington, J., Cassidy, S., Fletcher, J. and McVeigh, A. (1993). The mu+ system for corpus-based speech research. Computer Speech & Language, 7, 305-331.

Cassidy, S. and Harrington, J. (1992). Neural network modelling of strong and weak vowels. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. (p. 495-500). Brisbane, Australia.

Croot, K., Fletcher, J. and Harrington, J. (1992). Phonetic segmentation on the Australian National Database of Spoken Language. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. (p.86-90). Brisbane, Australia.

McVeigh, A. and Harrington, J. (1992). The mu+ system for speech database analysis. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. (p.548-553). Brisbane, Australia.

Millar, J., Dermody, P., Harrington, J. & Vonwiller, J. (1992). A national cluster of spoken language databases for Australia. Proc. of the Third Australian Int. Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Melbourne, Australia. (4 pages).

Harrington, J. (1990). The acoustic basis of the distinction between strong and weak vowels. Proc. of the Third Australian Int. Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Melbourne, Australia (4 pages).

Millar, J., Dermody, P., Harrington, J. & Vonwiller, J. (1990). A national database of spoken language; concept, design, and implementation. Proc. of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-90). Kobe, Japan (4 pages).

Harrington, J., Watson, G. & Cooper, M. (1988). Word-boundary identification from phoneme sequence constraints in automatic speech recognition. In Vargha D. (ed.) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling, '88), vol. 1, 225-229. John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences. Budapest.

Harrington, J., Johnson, I. & Cooper, M. (1987). The application of phoneme sequence constraints to word boundary identification in automatic continuous speech recognition. In Laver J. & Jack M. (eds.) European Conference on Speech Technology, vol. 1, 163-166. Edinburgh, U.K.

Harrington, J. & Johnstone, A. (1987). The effects of word boundary ambiguity in continuous speech recognition. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia, U.S.S.R. (4 pages).

Harrington, J. (1987). A technique for the phonetic transcription of stuttering. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia, U.S.S.R. (4 pages).

Harrington, J., Laver, J. & Cutting, D. (1986). Word-structure reduction rules in automatic, continuous speech recognition. In Lawrence R. (ed.) Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 8, 451-460.

Cutting, D. & Harrington, J. (1986). Phongram: a phonological rule interpreter. In Lawrence R. (ed.) Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 8, 461-469.

Abstracts only

Onaka, A., Palethorpe, S., Watson, C., Harrington, J., (2003). An acoustic and articulatory analysis of domain-initial strengthening in Japanese. In the 6^th International Seminar on Speech Production (Coltheart, M, Croot, K, Fletcher, J., Harrington, J., Mendes, S, Palethorpe, S. and Tabain M, editors). Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science: Sydney. (Abstract)

Watson, C., Palethorpe, S. and Harrington, J. (2003). Acoustic evidence of the vowel change in New Zealand English between 1955 and 1990: a diachronic study. In the 6^th International Seminar on Speech Production (Coltheart, M, Croot, K, Fletcher, J., Harrington, J., Mendes, S, Palethorpe, S. and Tabain M, editors). Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science: Sydney (Abstract)

Palethorpe, S., Croot, K., Molloy, N., Gibbon, F and Harrington, J. (2003). An electropalatographic investigation of sibilant production by children with repaired cleft palate. In the 6^th International Seminar on Speech Production (Coltheart, M, Croot, K, Fletcher, J., Harrington, J., Mendes, S, Palethorpe, S. and Tabain M, editors). Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science: Sydney. (Abstract)

Butcher, A. and Harrington, J. (2003). An acoustic and articulatory analysis of focus and the word/morpheme boundary distinction in Warlpiri. In the 6^th International Seminar on Speech Production (Coltheart, M, Croot, K, Fletcher, J., Harrington, J., Mendes, S, Palethorpe, S. and Tabain M, editors). Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science: Sydney. (Abstract)

Stephenson, L. and Harrington, J., (2003). An electropalatographic study of lexical frequency and place of articulation assimilation. In the 6^th International Seminar on Speech Production (Coltheart, M, Croot, K, Fletcher, J., Harrington, J., Mendes, S, Palethorpe, S. and Tabain M, editors). Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science: Sydney. (Abstract).

Rastle, K., Harrington, J., & Coltheart, M. (2002). 358,534 nonwords: The ARC Nonword Database (A). Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Kansas City, November, 2002.

Stephenson, L. & Harrington, J. (2002). Lexical and post-lexical assimilation: an EPG study of word blends in English and Japanese (Abstract). Paper presented at Laboratory Phonology VIII, Haskins Laboratories, USA.

Watson, C.I., Maclagan, M., and Harrington, J. (1998). Acoustic evidence of vowel shift in New Zealand English. Abstracts of Laboratory Phonology VI, York, U.K. (Abstract).

Rastle, K., Harrington, J., Coltheart, M., & Palethorpe, S. (1998). Reading aloud begins when the computation of phonology is complete. 1998 Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas. (Abstract).

Harrington, J., Beckman, M.E. , Fletcher, J. and Palethorpe, S. (1997). Kinematic and spectral measures of supralaryngeal correlates of the accent contrast in Australian English high vowels. 134th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102, 3205. (Abstract).

Harrington, J., Beckman, M.E. , Fletcher, J. and Palethorpe, S. (1996). Competing hypotheses concerning the articulation of stress in English. 131st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 2494. (Abstract).

Harrington, J. and Fletcher, J. (1996). Acoustic (non)consequences of gestural variability in the production of accentual prominence (A). 3rd Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Japan. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 2826. (Abstract).

Fletcher, J. and Harrington J. (1995). Coproduction, accent and the tense/lax contrast. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98.5, pt.2. (Abstract).

Cassidy, S. and Harrington, J. (1993). Target and dynamic theories of vowel perception. Evidence from neural network classifications. Language & Speech Conference, Sydney. (A).

Harrington, J. and McVeigh (1992). Analysing acoustic and articulatory speech data using the mu+ speech database interrogation system. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 91, supplement 1. (A).

Harrington, J. (1991). Target and dynamic studies of vowel classification from a large speech database. Language & Speech Conference, Melbourne. (A).

Harrington, J., Watson, G. & Cooper, M. (1988). Word-boundary identification in automatic speech recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (abstract), 84 (Supplement 1), S. 217.