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Professor Jennifer Hay

Contact

Department: Linguistics

Email: jen.hay@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3695518

Office: Elsie Locke Building (English) 210

Language: English

About
Research / Creative works
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Fields of Research

  • Phonetics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Laboratory Phonology
  • Sociophonetics
  • New Zealand English
  • Morphology

Researcher Summary

Professor Jen Hay has primary research interests in New Zealand English, sociophonetics, laboratory phonology and morphology. She is Director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, and is involved in collaborative interdisciplinary projects with a number faculty in the institute.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Languages & Linguistics: Linguistics
  • Resilience: Social: People and Community

Resources

  • Staff webpage

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles
  • Wilson Black J., Brand J., Hay J. and Clark L. (2023) Using principal component analysis to explore co‐variation of vowels. Language and Linguistics Compass 17(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12479.
  • Carmichael K., Clark L. and Hay J. (2022) Lessons learned: the long view. Linguistics Vanguard 8(S3): 353-362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0050.
  • Hay J., King J., Keegan P., Panther F., Mattingley W., Todd S., Oh YM., Beckner C. and Needle J. (2022) Ko te mōhiotanga huna o te hunga kore kōrero i te reo Māori. Te Reo 65(1): 42-59.
  • Hurring G., Hay J., Drager K., Podlubny R., Manhire L. and Ellis A. (2022) Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English. Brain Sciences 12(6) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12060684.
  • Brand J., Hay J., Clark L., Watson K. and Sóskuthy M. (2021) Systematic co-variation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English. Journal of Phonetics 88 101096: 101096-101096. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101096.
  • Villarreal D., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2021) Gender separation and the speech community: Rhoticity in early 20th century Southland New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change 33(2): 245-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954394521000090.
  • Oh Y., Todd S., Beckner C., Hay J., King J. and Needle J. (2020) Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon. Scientific Reports 10(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4.
  • Racz P., Beckner C., Hay J. and Pierrehumbert J. (2020) Morphological convergence as on-line lexical analogy.. Language (Washington) in press.
  • Racz P., Hay J. and Pierrehumbert J. (2020) Not all indexical cues are equal: Differential sensitivity to dimensions of indexical meaning in an artificial language.. Language Learning http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lang.12402.
  • Villarreal D., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2020) From categories to gradience: Auto-coding sociophonetic variation with random forests. Laboratory Phonology 11(1) 6 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/labphon.216.
  • Hay J., Walker A., Sanchez K. and Thompson K. (2019) Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words. PLoS ONE 14(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210793.
  • Todd S., Pierrehumbert JB. and Hay J. (2019) Word frequency effects in sound change as a consequence of perceptual asymmetries: An exemplar-based model. Cognition 185: 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.004.
  • Hay JB., Drager K. and Gibson A. (2018) Hearing r-sandhi: The role of past experience. Language 94(2): 360-404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2018.0020.
  • Shaw J., Best C., Docherty G., Evans B., Foulkes P., Hay JB. and Mulak K. (2018) Resilience of English vowel perception across regional accent variation. Laboratory Phonology 9(1) 11 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/labphon.87.
  • Walker A., Hay J., Drager K. and Sanchez K. (2018) Divergence in speech perception. Linguistics 56(1): 257-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0036.
  • Beckner C., Pierrehumbert J. and Hay JB. (2017) The emergence of linguistic structure in an online iterated learning task. Journal of Language Evolution 2(2): 160-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzx001.
  • Hay JB. (2017) Sociophonetics: The role of words, the role of context, and the role of words in context. Topics in Cognitive Science.
  • Hay JB., Podlubny R., Drager K. and Mcauliffe M. (2017) Car-talk: Location-specific speech production and perception. Journal of Phonetics 65: 94-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.06.005.
  • Rï cz P., Hay JB. and Pierrehumbert JB. (2017) Social salience discriminates learnability of contextual cues in an artificial language. Frontiers in Psychology 8 51 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00051.
  • Soskuthy M. and Hay JB. (2017) Changing word usage predicts changing word durations in New Zealand English. Cognition 166: 298-313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.032.
  • Beckner C., Rácz P., Hay J., Brandstetter J. and Bartneck C. (2016) Participants Conform to Humans but Not to Humanoid Robots in an English Past Tense Formation Task. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 35(2): 158-179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927X15584682.
  • Clark L., MacGougan H., Hay J. and Walsh L. (2016) "Kia ora. This is my earthquake story". Multiple applications of a sociolinguistic corpus. Ampersand 3: 13-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2016.01.001.
  • Gruber J., King J., Hay J. and Johnston L. (2016) The hands, head and brow: A sociolinguistics study of Māori gesture. Gesture 15(1): 1-36.
  • Hay J. and Foulkes P. (2016) The evolution of medial /t/ over real and remembered time. Language 92(2): 298-330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2016.0036.
  • Racz P., Hay J., Needle J., King J. and Pierrehumbert J. (2016) Gradient Māori phonotactics. Te Reo 59: 3-21.
  • Hay JB., Pierrehumbert JB., Walker AJ. and LaShell P. (2015) Tracking word frequency effects through 130 years of sound change. Cognition 139: 83-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.02.012.
  • MacFarlane AE. and Hay J. (2015) Connecting linguistic variation and non-linguistic behaviour. Linguistics Vanguard 1(1): 259-270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2015-1002.
  • Sanchez K., Hay J. and Nilson E. (2015) Contextual activation of Australia can affect New Zealanders' vowel productions. Journal of Phonetics 48: 76-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2014.10.004.
  • Hay J., Drager K. and Thomas B. (2013) Using nonsense words to investigate vowel merger. English Language and Linguistics 17(2): 241-269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674313000026.
  • Walsh L., Hay J., Bent D., Grant L., King J., Millar P., Papp V. and Watson K. (2013) The UC QuakeBox Project: Creation of a community-focused research archive. New Zealand English Journal 27: 20-32.
  • Drager K. and Hay J. (2012) Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in sociophonetics. Language Variation and Change 24(1): 59-78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954394512000014.
  • Hay J. and Maclagan M. (2012) /r/-sandhi in early 20th Century New Zealand English. Linguistics 50(4): 745-763. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2012-0023.
  • Hay J., Walker A., McKenzie J. and Nielsen D. (2012) The changing realization of 'the' before vowels in New Zealand English. New Zealand English Journal 26: 23-32.
  • Nokes J. and Hay J. (2012) Acoustic Correlates of Rhythm in New Zealand English: A Diachronic Study. Language Variation and Change 24(1): 1-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954394512000051.
  • Walker A. and Hay J. (2011) Congruence between 'word age' and 'voice age' facilitates lexical access. Laboratory Phonology 2(1): 219-237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/labphon.2011.007.
  • Drager K., Hay J. and Walker A. (2010) Pronounced rivalries: Attitudes and speech production. Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 53: 27-53.
  • Hay J. and Drager K. (2010) Stuffed toys and speech perception. Linguistics 48(4): 865-892. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/LING.2010.027.
  • Hay J., Warren P. and Drager K. (2010) Short-term Exposure to One Dialect Affects Processing of Another. Language and Speech 53(4): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830910372489.
  • Hay J., Drager K. and Warren P. (2009) Careful Who You Talk To: An Effect of Experimenter Identity on the Production of the NEAR/SQUARE Merger in New Zealand English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 29(2): 269-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268600902823128.
  • Bresnan J. and Hay J. (2008) Gradient grammar: An effect of animacy on the syntax of give in New Zealand and American English. Lingua 118(2): 245-259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2007.02.007.
  • Fromont R. and Hay J. (2008) ONZE Miner: the development of a browser-based research tool. Corpora 3(2): 173-193. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/E1749503208000142.
  • Hay J. (2007) A toolbox for teaching phonetics. Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 50: 7-16.
  • Hay J. and Bauer L. (2007) Phoneme inventory and population size. Language 83(2): 388-400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2007.0071.
  • Hay J. and Drager K. (2007) Sociophonetics. Annual Review of Anthropology 36: 89-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120633.
  • Maclagan M. and Hay J. (2007) Getting fed up with our feet: Contrast maintenance and the New Zealand English 'short' front vowel shift. Language Variation and Change 19(1): 1-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954394507070020.
  • Bunnell HT., Vogel IB., Arvaniti A., Backus A., Barbosa P., Hsuan CC., Cholin J., Christophe A., Clopper C. and Costa A. (2006) Editors' report for volume 49. Language and Speech 49(4): 549-550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00238309060490040501.
  • Hay J. and Bresnan J. (2006) Spoken syntax: The phonetics of giving a hand in New Zealand English. The Linguistic Review 23(3): 321-349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/TLR.2006.013.
  • Hay J., Nolan A. and Drager K. (2006) From fush to feesh: Exemplar priming in speech perception. The Linguistic Review 23(3): 351-379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/TLR.2006.014.
  • Hay J., Warren P. and Drager K. (2006) Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress. Journal of Phonetics 34(4): 458-484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2005.10.001.
  • Jannedy S. and Hay J. (2006) Modelling Sociophonetic Variation. Journal of Phonetics 34(4): 405-408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2006.08.001.
  • Hay J. and Baayen RH. (2005) Shifting paradigms: gradient structure in morphology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9(7): 342-348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2005.04.002.
  • Hay J. and Sudbury A. (2005) How rhoticity became /r/-sandhi. Language 81(4): 799-823. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2005.0175.
  • Nielsen D. and Hay J. (2005) Perceptions of Regional Dialects in New Zealand. Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 48: 95-110.
  • Thomas B. and Hay J. (2005) A pleasant malady: The ellen/allan merger in New Zealand English. Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 48: 69-93.
  • Wright SK., Hay J. and Bent T. (2005) Ladies first? Phonology, frequency, and the naming conspiracy. Linguistics 43(3): 531-561. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling.2005.43.3.531.
  • Hay J. and Plag I. (2004) What Constrains Possible Suffix Combinations? On the Interaction of Grammatical and Processing Restrictions in Derivational Morphology. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22(3): 565-596.
  • Hay J. and Schreier D. (2004) Reversing the trajectory of language change: Subject-verb agreement with be in New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change 16(3): 209-235.
  • Attardo S., Eisterhold J., Hay J. and Poggi I. (2003) Multimodal markers of irony and sarcasm. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 16(2): 243-260.
  • Hay J. (2003) Male Cheerleaders and Wanton Women: Humour among New Zealand Friends. Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 45: 3-36.
  • Hay J. and Baayen H. (2003) Phonotactics, Parsing and Productivity. Italian Journal of Linguistics 15(1): 99-130.
  • Schreier D., Gordon E., Hay J. and Maclagan M. (2003) The regional and linguistic dimension of /hw/ maintenance and loss in early 20th century New Zealand English. English World-Wide 24(2): 245-269.
  • Hay J. (2002) Causes and Consequences of Word Structure. Glot International 6(2/3): 58-64.
  • Hay J. (2002) From Speech Perception to Morphology: Affix Ordering Revisited. Language 78(3): 527-555.
  • Hay J. and Warren P. (2002) Experiments on /r/-intrusion. Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics 14: 47-58.
  • Hay J. (2001) Lexical frequency in morphology: Is everything relative? Linguistics 39(376): 1041-1070. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling.2001.041.
  • Hay J. (2001) Lexical Frequency in Morphology: Is Everything Relative? Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 39(6): 1041-1070.
  • Hay J. (2001) The Pragmatics of Humor Support. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 14(1): 55-82.
  • Cheung R., Hay J., Van Der Drift E. and Gao W. (2000) Improvement of contact resistances on plasma-exposed silicon carbide. Solid-State Electronics 44(11): 2081-2083. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0038-1101(00)00155-6.
  • Hay J. (2000) Functions of Humor in the Conversations of Men and Women. Journal of Pragmatics 32(6): 709-742.
  • Holmes J. and Hay J. (1997) Humour as an Ethnic Boundary Marker in New Zealand Interaction. Journal of Intercultural Studies 18(2): 127-151.
  • Hay JB. (1996) No Laughing Matter: Gender and Humour Support Strategies. Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics 8.
  • Hay JB. (1995) Only Teasing! New Zealand English Newsletter 9: 32-35.
  • Hay JB. (1994) Jocular abuse in mixed-group interaction. Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics 6: 26-55.
Authored Books
  • Hay J., Maclagan M. and Gordon E. (2008) New Zealand English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 164pp.
  • Gordon E., Campbell L., Hay J., Maclagan M., Sudbury A. and Trudgill P. (2004) New Zealand English: Its origins and evolution. 1-370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486678.
  • Gordon E., Campbell L., Hay J., Maclagan M., Sudbury A. and Trudgill P. (2004) New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 390pp.
  • Hay J. (2003) Causes and Consequences of Word Structure. New York and London: Routledge. 237pp.
Edited Volumes
  • Jannedy S. and Hay J. (2006) Journal of Phonetics, 34 (4). Special Issue: Modelling Sociophonetic Variation. Oxford: Elsevier. 125pp.
  • Bod R., Hay J. and Jannedy S. (2003) Probabilistic Linguistics. Cambridge: MIT Press. 451pp.
  • Feist M., Fix S., Hay J. and Moore J. (2001) Proceedings of the 10th Student Conference in Linguistics (SCIL 10). Cambridge: MIT Press. 253pp.
Chapters
  • Needle J., Pierrehumbert J. and Hay J. (2022) Phonological and Morphological Effects in the Acceptability of Pseudowords. In Sims A; Ussishkin A (Ed.), Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108807951.005.
  • Sóskuthy M., Hay J., Maclagan M., Drager K. and Foulkes P. (2017) Early New Zealand English: The closing diphthongs. Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English: 529-561. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781107279865.023.
  • Warren P., Gibson A. and Hay JB. (2017) The sound of 'women' in New Zealand English. In Marra M; Warren P (Ed.), Linguist at Work: A Festschrift for Janet Holmes Wellington: Victoria University Press.
  • Racz P., Papp V. and Hay J. (2016) Frequency and Corpora. In Hippseley A; Stump G (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology: 685-709. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781139814720.024.
  • Racz P., Papp VG. and Hay J. (2016) Frequency and Corpora. In Hippisley A; Stump G (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology: 685-709. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Soskuthy M., Hay J., Maclagan M., Drager K. and Foulkes P. (2016) The closing diphthongs in early New Zealand English. In Hickey R (Ed.), Listening to the Past Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Foulkes P. and Hay JB. (2015) The Emergence of Sociophonetic Structure. In MacWhinney B; O'Grady W (Ed.), The Handbook of Language Emergence: 292-313. Malden: Wiley Blackwell.
  • Racz P., Pierrehumbert J., Papp VG. and Hay J. (2015) Morphological Emergence. In MacWhinney B; O'Grady W (Ed.), The Handbook of Language Emergence: 123-147. Malden, MA, USA: Wiley Blackwell.
  • Rácz P., Pierrehumbert JB., Hay JB. and Papp V. (2015) Morphological Emergence. In MacWhinney B; O'Grady W (Ed.), The Handbook of Language Emergence: 123-146. Malden: Wiley Blackwell.
  • Saarinen P. and Hay J. (2014) Affix ordering in derivation. In Lieber R; Štekauer P (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology: 370-383. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Hay J. (2012) Analyzing the ONZE data as evidence for sound change. In Nevalainen T; Traugott EC (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of English: 94-97. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Hay J. and Clendon A. (2012) (Non-)rhoticity: Lessons from New Zealand English. In Nevalainen T; Traugott EC (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of English: 761-772. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Scobbie JM., Stuart-Smith J., Warner N., Warren P. and Hay J. (2012) Experimental Design and Data Collection: Socially Stratified Sampling in Laboratory-Based Phonological ExperimentationMethods For Studying Spontaneous SpeechMethods and Experimental Design For Studying Sociophonetic Variation. The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199575039.013.0021.
  • Warren P. and Hay J. (2012) Methods and experimental design for studying sociophonetic variation. In Cohn AC; Fougeron C; Huffman M (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology: 634-642. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Clopper C., Hay J. and Plichta B. (2011) Experimental speech perception and perceptual dialectology. In Di Paolo M; Yaeger-Dror M (Ed.), Sociophonetics: A Students' Guide: 149-162. New York: Routledge.
  • Hay J. (2011) A toolbox for teaching phonetics. In Kuiper K (Ed.), Teaching Linguistics: Reflections on Practice: 4-12. London: Equinox.
  • Hay J. (2011) Statistical analysis. In Di Paolo M; Yaeger-Dror M (Ed.), Sociophonetics: A Students' Guide: 198-214. New York: Routledge.
  • Maclagan M. and Hay J. (2011) Transcription. In Di Paolo M; Yaeger-Dror M (Ed.), Sociophonetics: A Student's Guide: 36-45. New York: Routledge.
  • Hay J. and Maclagan M. (2010) Social and Phonetic Conditioners on the Frequency and Degree of 'intrusive /r/' in New Zealand English. In Preston D; Niedzielski N (Ed.), A Reader in Sociophonetics: 41-69. New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Maclagan M. and Hay J. (2010) Sociolinguistics in New Zealand. In Ball MJ (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World: 159-169. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Hundt M., Hay J. and Gordon E. (2008) New Zealand English: morphosyntax. In Burridge K; Kortmann B (Ed.), Varieties of English: Volume 3: The Pacific and Australasia: 305-340. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Gordon E., Maclagan M. and Hay J. (2007) The ONZE Corpus. In Beal JC; Corrigan KP; Moisl HL (Ed.), Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora. Volume 2: Diachronic Databases: 82-104. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hay J. (2007) The phonetics of 'un'. In Munat J (Ed.), Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts: 39-57. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • Warren P., Hay J. and Thomas B. (2007) The loci of sound change effects in recognition and perception. In Cole J; Hualde JI (Ed.), Laboratory Phonology 9: 87-112. New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Warren P. and Hay J. (2006) Using sound change to explore the mental lexicon. In Fletcher-Flinn C; Haberman G (Ed.), Cognition, Language and Development: Perspectives from New Zealand: 101-121. Bowen Hills: Australian Academic Press.
  • Hay J. (2005) Morphotactics. In Brown K (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.): 335-336. Oxford: Elsevier.
  • Hundt M., Hay J. and Gordon E. (2004) New Zealand English: Morphosyntax. A Handbook of Varieties of English Volume 2: Morphology and Syntax: 560-592. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Maclagan M. and Hay J. (2004) The rise and rise of NZE DRESS. In Cassidy S; Cox F; Mannell R; Palethorpe A (Ed.), Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology: 183-188. Sydney: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
  • Hay J., Pierrehumbert J. and Beckman M. (2003) Speech Perception, Wellformedness and the statistics of the lexicon. In Local J; Ogden R; Temple R (Ed.), Phonetic Interpretation: 58-74. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mendoza-Denton N., Hay J. and Jannedy S. (2003) Probabilistic Sociolinguistics: Beyond Variable Rules. In Bod R; Hay J; Jannedy S (Ed.), Probabilistic Linguistics: 97-138. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Hay J. and Baayen H. (2002) Parsing and Productivity. In Booij G; van Marle J (Ed.), Yearbook of Morphology 2001: 203-235. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Wright S. and Hay J. (2002) Fred and Wilma: A Phonological Conspiracy. In Benor S; Rose M; Sharma D; Sweetland J; Zhang Q (Ed.), Gendered Practices in Language: 175-192. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • Hay JB. (1996) Problems and Paradoxes of Language and Gender Research. Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference: 293-302.Berkeley Women and Language Group.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Todd S., Huang A., Needle J., Hay J. and King J. (2022) Unsupervised morphological segmentation in a language with reduplication. In To appear.
  • Brand J., Hay J., Clark L., Watson K. and Sóskuthy M. (2019) Systematic covariation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English. In Calhoun S; Escudero P; Tabain M; Warren P (Eds). Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: 1878-1882. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science Technology Association Inc.
  • Derrick D., Heyne M., O'Beirne G. and Hay J. (2019) Aero-tactile integration in Mandarin. In Calhoun S; Escudero P; Tabain M; Warren P (Eds). Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc..
  • Shaw J., Best C., Docherty G., Evans B., Foulkes P., Hay J. and Mulak K. (2019) An information theoretic perspective on perceptual structure: cross-accent vowel perception. In.
  • Soskuthy M., Hay J. and Brand J. (2019) Horizontal diphthong shift in New Zealand English. In.
  • Villarreal D., Hay J. and Clark L. (2019) Modelling gradience in English /r/ via statistical classification. In Calhoun S; Escudero P; Tabain M; Paul W (Eds). Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: 1893-1897. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science Technology Association Inc.
  • Best C., Shaw J., Docherty PD., Evans B., Foulkes P., Hay J., Al-Tamimi J., Mair K., Mulak K. and Wood S. (2015) 'From Newcastle MOUTH to Aussie ears : Australians' perceptual assimilation and adaptation for Newcastle UK vowels'. In.
  • Best CT., Shaw JA., Mulak K., Docherty G., Evans B., Foulkes P., Hay J., Al-Tamimi J., Mair K. and Peek M. (2015) Perceiving and adapting to regional accent differences among vowel subsystems. In.
  • Soskuthy M., Foulkes P., Haddican B., Hay J. and Hughes V. (2015) Word-level distributions and structural factors co-determine GOOSE fronting. In.
  • Brandstetter J., Rácz P., Beckner C., Sandoval EB., Hay J. and Bartneck C. (2014) A peer pressure experiment: Recreation of the Asch conformity experiment with robots. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): 1335-1340. IEEE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2014.6942730.
  • Derrick D., De Rybel T., O'Beirne GA. and Hay J. (2014) Listen with your skin: Aerotak speech perception enhancement system. In Proceedings: 1484-1485.
  • Derrick D., O'Beirne G., De Rybel T. and Hay J. (2014) Aero-tactile integration in fricatives: Converting audio to air flow information for speech perception enhancement. In INTERSPEECH 2014: 2580-2584.
  • Wright S., Shaw JA., Best CT., Docherty G., Evans B., Foulkes P., Hay J. and Mulak K. (2014) Improvements to vowel categorization in non-native regional accents resulting from single- versus multiple-talker training: A computational approach. In.
  • Fromont R. and Hay J. (2012) LaBB-CAT: An annotation store. In Proceedings 10:: 113-117.
  • Fromont RA. and Hay J. (2012) LaBB-CAT: an Annotation Store. In Proceedings of ALTA 2012: 113-117.
  • Docherty G., Hay J. and Walker A. (2006) Sociophonetic patterning of phrase-final /t/ in New Zealand English. In Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology: 378-383.
  • Maclagan M. and Hay J. (2004) The rise and rise of New Zealand English DRESS. In Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology: 183-188.
  • Sudbury A. and Hay J. (2002) The demise of non-prevocalic /r/ in early New-Zealand English. In.
  • Hay J. (2001) Morphological Adjacency Constraints: A Synthesis. Proceedings of SCIL 9. In.
  • Hay J. and Thompson W. (2001) The Semantics of Predicates taking As and To Be Complements. Proceedings of SCIL 9. In.
  • Hay J., Kennedy C. and Levin B. (1999) Scalar Structure Underlies Telicity in 'Degree Achievements'. In : 199-223.
Oral Presentations
  • Hay J. (2020) Statistical learning, experience and attention.. Canberra: COEDL-FEST: Centre of Excellence of the Dynamics of Language, 05 Feb 2020.
  • Hay J. (2019) What does it mean to know a word. Canberra: ANU Sociophonetics Workshop, 06 Jul 2019.
  • Hay J. (2005) When is an /r/ not an /r/? Snorting, snoring and guffawing in New Zealand English. Victoria University of Wellington: Invited Talk, 01 Aug 1998.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Wilson Black J., Hay J., Brand J. and Clark L. (2022) The overlooked effect of amplitude on within-speaker vowel variation. Griffith University: SocioPhonAus: Third workshop on Sociophonetic Variability in the English Varieties of Australia, 11-12 Jul 2022.
  • Wilson Black J., Hay J., Clark L. and Brand J. (2022) Topical structure, amplitude variation, and F1 in single-speaker narrative recordings. University of Otago: NZ Linguistics Society conference, 7-9 Dec 2022.
  • Brand J., Hay J., Clark L., Watson K. and Soskuthy M. (2020) At the margins of vowel-space change: Leaders and laggers in the evolution of vocalic subsystems. Vancouver (online): Laboratory Phonology 17, 8 Jul 2020.
  • Gnevsheva K., Grama J., Diskin C., Hay J., Foulkes P., Drager K., Travis C., Gonzales S., Loakes D. and Sheard E. (2020) Sound change in word classes and individual words in Australian and New Zealand English. York, U.K (postponed): Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, 1 Apr 2020.
  • Brand J., Hay J., Clark L., Watson K. and Soskuthy M. (2019) Detecting co-variation of vowels withing the time-course of conversations. University of Canterbury: Linguistic Society Conference of New Zealand, 28-29 Nov 2019.
  • Diskin C., Hay J., Drager K., Foulkes P., Gnevsheva K., Grama J., Brand J., Travis C., Loakes D. and Docherty G. (2019) The emergence of the discourse-pragmatic marker ‘just’: linking changes in usage to changes in pronunciation. University of Canterbury: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Conference, 28 Nov 2019.
  • Drager K. and Hay J. (2019) Social priming in speech production and perception. Melbourne: International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, 1-1 Aug 2019.
  • Gnevsheva K., Grama J., Hay J., Drager K., Foulkes P., Brand J., Gonzales S., Travis C., Sheard E. and Loakes D. (2019) Just a word: Lexeme-specific sound changes. University of Canterbury, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Conference, 28 Nov 2019.
  • Grama J., Gnevsheva K., Hay J., Brand J., Gonzales S., Loakes D., Docherty G., Sheard E., Foulkes P. and Diskin C. (2019) Just a word: Sound change at the level of the word across dialects. Macquarie University: Australian Linguistics Society Conference, 11 Dec 2019.
  • Todd S., Needle J., King J. and Hay J. (2019) Quantitative Insights into Māori Word Structure. Christchurch, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Conference, 28 Nov 2019.
  • Villarreal D., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2019) The Short Front Vowel Shift in Southland English. University of Canterbury: Linguistics Society of New Zealand, 28 Nov 2019.
  • Villarreal D., Papp V., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2019) Telling a new story with old data: Random-forest classification of non-prevocalic (r) in Southland New Zealand English. Macquarie University, Sydney: Variation and Language Processing, 23-25 Jan 2019.
  • Villarreal D., Clark L., Hay J. and Watson K. (2018) Directions of change in Southland English (r). Victoria University of Wellington: New Zealand Linguistiics Society Conference, 16-18 Nov 2018.
Other
  • Hay J. (2007) The phonetics of un-affixation. (submitted November 2005, accepted Jan 2006).
  • Jannedy S. and Hay J. (2004) Modeling Sociophonetic Variation. Linguistic Society of America 78th Annual Meeting Boston: [Organised Session].

Student Supervision

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  • PhD - Hashimoto D: Influence of Lexical and Social Messages on Loanword Phonology: The Case of Maori Loanwords in New Zealand English
  • PhD - Jones J: 2016-PhD/DMA/EdD-Jones, Jacqueline
  • PhD - Mattingly W: Individual learning in L2 phonological acquisition
  • Completed
  • PhD - Buerkle D: 2012-PhD/DMA/EdD-Buerkle, Daniel (2015)
  • PhD - Drager K: 2005-PhD/DMA/EdD-Drager, Katie (2008)
  • PhD - Fiasson R: 2008-PhD/DMA/EdD-Fiasson, Romain (2014)
  • PhD - Gibson A: Production and Perception of Vowels in New Zealand Popular Music (2019)
  • PhD - Gnevsheva K: 2012-PhD/DMA/EdD-Gnevsheva, Ksenia (2016)
  • PhD - Heyne M: The Influence of First Language on Playing Brass Instruments (2017)
  • PhD - Kawai J: 2002-PhD/DMA/EdD-Kawai, Junji (2004)
  • PhD - Langstrof C: 2003-PhD/DMA/EdD-Langstrof, Christian (2006)
  • PhD - Macfarlane A: Voice and Behaviour (2014)
  • PhD - Needle J: Word-formation in social context: consequences for linguistic innovation
  • PhD - Podlubny R: Acoustic Entrainment and Background Music (2019)
  • PhD - Rose D: Redundancy, learning and language change: A cross-linguistic artificial language learning-based examination (2017)
  • PhD - Sun K: Pointing, swaying, and walking towards tomorrow : the link between spatial metaphor and body movements in Mandarin and English (2016)
  • PhD - Todd S: Asymmetries in Spoken Word Perception and Sound Change (2019)
  • Masters - Cox R: 2004-Masters Thesis-Cox, Rebecca (2005)
  • Masters - Drager K: 2004-Masters Thesis-Drager, Katie (2005)
  • Masters - Gibson A: 2008-Masters Thesis-Gibson, Andy (2009)
  • Masters - Newsome G: 2005-Masters Thesis-Newsome, Georgie (2006)
  • Masters - Norcliffe L: 2003-Masters Thesis-Norcliffe, Lis (2004)
  • Masters - Sun K: 2010-Masters Thesis-Sun, Keyi (2012)
  • Masters - Szakay A: 2006-Masters Thesis-Szakay, Anita (2007)
  • Masters - Thomas B: 2003-Masters Thesis-Thomas, Brynmor (2004)
  • Masters - Walker A: 2007-Masters Thesis-Walker, Abby (2008)
  • Honours - Bradstock R: 2007-Honours-Bradstock, Rachel (2007)
  • Honours - Fromont R: 2011-Honours-Fromont, Robert (2011)
  • Honours - Gibson A: 2004-Honours-Gibson, Andy (2004)
  • Honours - Malcolm K: 2003-Honours-Malcolm, Karen (2003)
  • Honours - Matthews R: 2004-Honours-Matthews, Rachel (2004)
  • Honours - McKenzie J: 2005-Honours-McKenzie, Jayne (2005)
  • Honours - Walker A: 2005-Honours-Walker, Abby (2005)

Research Groups

  • New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB)
  • Origins of New Zealand English Project (ONZE)
  • Resilience: Social Research

Research Projects

  • UCQuakebox: Digital Translation and Transcription of Earthquake Stories

Key Methodologies

  • Statistical Analysis
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