School of Languages & Linguistics French, Italian and Spanish Studies

Professor John Hajek - full bibliography

In Press

HAJEK, J. The Mystery of the Kenaboi. In H. Steinhauer & J. Collins (eds.) Endangered Languages and Literatures of Southeast Asia. Leiden: KITLV Press.

HAJEK, J. Breathy Voice as an Areal Feature in Nusa Tenggara and East Timor, NUSA.

Absalom, M. & J. HAJEK Raddoppiamento sintattico, Orbis.

HAJEK, J. Towards a Phonological Typology of the Vowel and Consonant Systems of East Nusantara. In M. Klamer and M. Ewing (eds) Typological and Areal Analysis: Contributions from East Nusantara, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Nicholas, N. & J. HAJEK. The Effect of Graeco-Romance contact on the Greek cluster vY in Corsica. Word.

HAJEK, J. and J. Bowden. Waima'a: challenges for language documentation and maintenance in East Timor. In Margaret Florey (ed) Endangered languages of Austronesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2009

Kruspe, N. and HAJEK. J. Mah Meri. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 39: 241-248.

HAJEK, J. On labial-velar stops and nasals in Vietnamese. Mon-Khmer Studies 38: 117-121.

2008

HAJEK, J. Multilingual knowledge, practices and attitudes in the European Union. In J. Warren and H. M. Benbow (eds) Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 167-183.

HAJEK, J and Nicholas, N. Dummy pronoun insertion after conditional ‘if’ in Cargese Greek. Transactions of the Philological Society 106: 414-431.

HAJEK, J. and M. Stevens. Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian. In J. Fletcher, D. Loakes, R. Gocke, D. Burnham and M. Wagner (eds) Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008, Brisbane: ISCA, 516-519.

Stevens, M. and J. HAJEK. Positional effects on the characterization of ejectives in Waima'a. In J. Fletcher, D. Loakes, R. Gocke, D. Burnham and M. Wagner (eds) Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008, Brisbane: ISCA, 1124-1127.

Clyne, M., J. HAJEK and S. Kipp. Tale of two multilingual cities in a multilingual continent. People and Place 16:1-9.

2007

HAJEK, J. Tracce rare della vocale turbata ü in area alto-vicentina, Revue de linguistique romane 71: 65-72.

HAJEK, J. Sound systems of the Asia-Pacific: some basic typological observations. In A. Simpson and P. Austin (eds). Endangered Languages. Linguistische Berichte. Sonderheft 14, 207-222.

Slaughter, Y. and J. HAJEK. Community languages and LOTE provision in Victorian primary schools: mix or match? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30(1): 7.1-7.22.

Bowden, J. and J. HAJEK. Not just Tetum - Language development in East Timor and the case of Waima'a. In M. Leach and D. Kingsbury (eds.) East Timor: Beyond Independence. Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute, 263-274.

Schüpbach, D., J. HAJEK, J.Warren, M. Clyne, H-L. Kretzenbacher, C. Norrby. A cross-linguistic comparison of address pronoun use in four European languages: Intralinguistic and interlinguistic dimensions. In I. Mushin and M. Laughren (eds) Selected papers from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society, Brisbane, 7-9 July 2006.

HAJEK, J., M. Stevens and G. Webster.Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Italian. In J. Trouvain and W. J. Barry (eds) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (ICPhS XVI), Saarbrücken, 1057-1060.

Stevens, M. and J. HAJEK. Towards a phonetic conspectus of preaspiration: acoustic evidence from Sienese Italian. In J. Trouvain and W. J. Barry (eds) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (ICPhS XVI), Saarbrücken, 429-432.

HAJEK, J and I.M.C. Watson 2007. Prosodic Conditioning of Portuguese Subjects' perception of vowel nasality. In J. Trouvain and W. J. Barry (eds) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (ICPhS XVI), Saarbrücken 741-744.

HAJEK, J. and T. Cummins. Un'indagine preliminare sull'allungamento vocalico in posizione non finale in friulano. In Veronica Giordani, Valentina Briseghini and Piero Cosi (eds) Atti dell'AISV III Convegno nazionale "Scienze Vocali e del Linguaggio - Metodologie di Valutazione e Risorse Linguistiche", Povo di Trento 27-31.

Stevens, M. and J. HAJEK. L'inibizione dell'allungamento consonantico ai confini di parola nell'italiano senese: alcune prove uditive e acustiche. In Veronica Giordani, Valentina Briseghini and Piero Cosi (eds) Atti dell'AISV III Convegno nazionale "Scienze Vocali e del Linguaggio - Metodologie di Valutazione e Risorse Linguistiche", Povo di Trento,  17-26.

2006

Williams-van Klinken, C. and J. HAJEK. Patterns of address in Tetun Dili, East Timor. In C. Norrby and J. Warren (eds) Patterns of Address Worldwide. Special number of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 29(2):21.1-21.18.

Absalom, M. & J. HAJEK. Prosodic phonology and raddoppiamento sintattico: a re-evaluation. In K. Allan (ed.) Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Melbourne: Monash University. Available at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ling/als/.

HAJEK, J. Language contact and convergence in East Timor: the case of Tetun Dili. In A.Y. Aikhenvald & R.M.W. Dixon (eds) Grammars in contact: a cross-linguistic perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 163-178.

HAJEK, J. Serial Verbs in Tetun Dili. In A. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon (eds) Serial Verb Constructions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 239-253.

HAJEK, J. On the Edge of the Pacific: Indonesia and East Timor. In D. Cunningham, D. Ingram & K. Sumbuk (eds) Language Diversity in the Pacific. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 122-131.

HAJEK, J. On doubly articulated labial-velar stops and nasals in Tibeto-Burman. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 29.2: 125-133.

Eades, D. & J. HAJEK. Gayo. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36: 107-115.

Stevens, M., N. Kruspe and J.HAJEK. Register in Mah Meri: A preliminary phonetic analysis. In R. Hoffmann and H. Mixdorff (eds) Speech Prosody. 3rd International Conference Dresden, May 2-5, 2006, 269-272.

HAJEK, J.  & T. Cummins. A preliminary investigation of vowel lengthening  in non-final position. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2006, Auckland: University of Auckland, 243-247.

Stevens, M. & J. HAJEK. Blocking of word-boundary consonant lengthening in Sienese Italian: some auditory and acoustic evidence. In P. Warren and Catherine Watson (eds) Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2006, Auckland: University of Auckland, 176-181.

Bowden, J. & J. HAJEK. When best practice isn't necessarily the best thing to do: dealing with capacity limits in a developing country. In L. Barwick and N. Thieberger (eds) Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork, Sydney: Sydney University Press, 45-56.

2005

Belo, M. C.A., J. Bowden, J. HAJEK, N. Himmelmann, and A. V. Tilman (eds). Glosáriu Waima'a Caisido. Baucau: Publicações Matebian.

HAJEK, J. East Timor: Language Situation. In K. Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., London: Elsevier. Vol.14: 718.

HAJEK, J. Vowel Nasalization. In Dryer, M., M. Haspelmath, D. Gil, David & B. Comrie, (eds.) World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 46-49.

Stevens, M. & J. HAJEK. Raddoppiamento sintattico and word-medial gemination in Italian: Are they the same or are they different? The evidence from spontaneous speech. In R. Gess & E. J. Rubin (eds) Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics. Amsterdam; John Benjamins, 257-271.

HAJEK, J. & M. Stevens. La preaspirazione delle occlusive sorde geminate nel senese. In P. Cosi (ed) MISURA dei PARAMETRI - aspetti tecnologici ed implicazioni nei modelli linguistici. Atti del 1° Convegno Nazionale AISV 2004Università di Padova, Palazzo del Bo - Aula Nievo, 2-4 Dicembre 2004. Padua: EDK Press, 89-100.

Stevens, M. & J. HAJEK. Spirantization of /p t k/ in Sienese Italian and so-called semi-fricatives, INTERSPEECH-2005, 2893-2896.
HAJEK, J. & M. Stevens. On the Acoustic Characterization of Ejective Stops inWaima’a, INTERSPEECH-2005, 2889-2892.

2004

Parkinson, A. and J. HAJEK. Lei, Tu and Voi: Keeping it all in the Family, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 18: 97-114.

Stevens, M. & J. HAJEK. Comparing Voiced and Voiceless Geminates in Sienese Italian: What Role does Preaspiration Play? In S. Cassidy, F. Cox, R. Mannell & S. Palethorpe (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney: ASSTA, 340-345.

Stevens, M. & J. HAJEK. How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian. In S. Cassidy, F. Cox, R. Mannell & S. Palethorpe (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney: ASSTA, 334-339.

Stevens, M. & J. HAJEK. Preaspiration in Sienese Italian and its interaction with stress in /VC:/ sequences. In B. Bel & I. Marlien (eds) Speech Prosody 2004. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Speech Prosody 2004, 23-26 March 2004, Nara, Japan. SProSIG. 57-60.

Absalom, M., HAJEK, J. & M. Stevens. Il fenomeno del raddoppiamento nella realtà italiana. In M. Pettorino (ed) Il Parlato Italiano, Naples: M’Auria Editore.

Stevens, M. & J. HAJEK. A preliminary investigation of some acoustic characteristics of ejectives in Waima’a: VOT and closure duration. In S. Cassidy, F. Cox, R. Mannell & S. Palethorpe (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney: ASSTA, 277-282.

HAJEK. J. & M. Stevens. Tonal Activity in Kara, an Austronesian language spoken in New Britain. In S. Cassidy, F. Cox, R. Mannell & S. Palethorpe (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney: ASSTA, 295-300.

HAJEK, J. Adjectives: what can we conclude? In R.M.W. Dixon and A. Aikhenvald (eds) Adjective Classes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 348-361.

HAJEK, J. & N. Nicholas. The Rise and Fall of Modern Greek in Australia's Universities: What can a Quantitative Analysis Tell Us? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. 3:197-211.

Olson, K. S., and J. HAJEK. A cross-linguistic lexicon of the labial flap. Linguistic Discovery 2(2), http://linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu.

HAJEK, J. Consonant Inventories and Phoneme Reduction as an Areal Feature of the New Guinea-Pacific Region: Testing Trudgill's Hypotheses, Linguistic Typology 8: 343-350.

2003

University of Melbourne Humanities and Social Sciences Research Funding Database, http://fritslite.language.unimelb.edu.au/db.html.

HAJEK, J. Evidence of Tonal Activity in Aslian, Mon-Khmer Studies 33: 59-66.

HAJEK, J. N. Himmelmann & J. Bowden. Lovaia: an Endangered Language in East Timor, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 160: 155-167.

HAJEK, J. & R. Goedemans. Word-initial Geminates and Stress in Pattani Malay, The Linguistic Review 20: 79-94.

HAJEK, J. & C. Williams-van Klinken. Um sufixo românico numa língua austronésia: -dor em Tetum, Revue de linguistique romane 67: 55-65.

Bowden, J. & J. HAJEK. Taba. In Kokusai Onsei Kigo Gaidobukku: Kokusai Onsei gakkai Annai. Translated by Takebayashi, S. & T. Kamiyama. Tokyo: Taishukanshoten. 193-197. (Translation into Japanese of Bowden & Hajek 1999).

Olson, K. & J. HAJEK. Cross-Linguistic Insights on the Labial Flap, Linguistic Typology 7: 1-30.

Watson, I.M.C & J. HAJEK. Cross-linguistic Study of the Effect of the Effect of Suprasegmental Features Conditioning the Development of Nasal Vowels. In M. J. Solé, D. Recasens and J. Romero (eds) Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, 2809-2812. Also printed in Oxford University Working papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics 8:103-112.

HAJEK, J. Patterns of Vowel nasalisation in Northern Italy: Articulatory v. Perceptual. In M. J. Solé, D. Recasens and J. Romero (eds) Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, 235-238.

2002

Williams-van Klinken, C., J. HAJEK & R. Nordlinger. Tetun Dili, A Grammar of an East Timorese Language. Canberra; Pacific Linguistics.

Williams-van Klinken, C., J. HAJEK & R. Nordlinger. A Short Grammar of Tetun Dili, Munich: Lincom Europa.

HAJEK, J. Language Opportunities: A Directory of Scholarships for Language Students and Professionals, Canberra: Language Australia.

HAJEK, J. Parlaree: un gergo italianizzante in inglese. Rivista di dialettologia italiana 26: 169-189.

HAJEK, J. & L. Giannelli. L’impatto della cucina mediterranea nel Pacifico. In D. Silvestri, A. Marra, I. Pinto (eds.) Saperi e sapori mediterranei. Vol. 3: 1205-1229. Naples: Università degli studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale'.

HAJEK, J. Language maintenance and survival in East Timor: All Change Now? Winners and Losers. In D. & M. Bradley (ed) Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: an Active Approach. London: Curzon Press, 182-202.

HAJEK, J. & J. Bowden A Phonological Oddity in the Austronesian Area: Ejectives in Waimoa, Oceanic Linguistics 41: 222-224.

Stevens, M., J. HAJEK & M. Absalom Raddoppiamento sintattico and glottalization phenomena in Italian: a first phonetic excursus. Proceedings of the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 154-159.

Absalom, M., M Stevens & J. HAJEK A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You weren't Told About Raddoppiamento sintattico in Italian, Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society. http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/als2002/.

Olson, K. & J. HAJEK The Geographic and Genetic Distribution of the Labial Flap SIL Electronic Working Papers in Linguistics.

2001

HAJEK, J. Languages and Cultures in Australia in the 21st Century: Riding the Multilingual Tiger. In M. Gillies, M. Carroll, and J. Dash (eds) Humanities and Social Sciences Summit, Canberra, 85-94.

Himmelmann, N. & J. HAJEK. A report on the current linguistic situation in the Lautem region (East Timor), Studies in East Timorese Languages and Cultures 4: 88-97.

Williams-Van Klinken, C., J. HAJEK & R. Nordlinger. Serial verbs in Tetun Dili Studies in East Timorese Languages and Cultures 4: 48-60.

HAJEK, J. Shouldn’t Tetun be an Asian Priority Language? Australian Language Matters, 6: 5, 8.

2000

HAJEK, J. Language Planning and the Sociolinguistic Environment in East Timor: Colonial Practice and Changing Language Ecologies, Current Issues in Language Planning 1: 400-415.

HAJEK, J. Overlength and Maximal Moraicity in Standard Italian and Italian Dialects. In L. Repetti (ed.) Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 111-135.

HAJEK, J. & S. Maeda. Investigating Universals of Sound Change: the Effect of Vowel Height and Duration on the Development of Distinctive Nasalization. In M. Broe & J. Pierrehumbert (eds.) Papers in Laboratory Phonology V, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 52-69.

van Engelenhoven, A. & J. HAJEK. East Timor and the Southwest Moluccas: Language, Time and Connections, Studies in East Timorese Languages and Cultures 3: 107-124

Olson, K. & J. HAJEK. The Phonetic Status of the Labial Flap, Journal of the International Phonetics Association 22: 100-115.

HAJEK, J. Whither Italian? Italian in Australia’s Universities. Why It’s Important and How to Save it?, In Search of the Italian Australian into the New Millennium. Melbourne: Gro-Set, 611-625.

1999

Elder, C., J. HAJEK, J. Warren & D. Manwaring. Metalinguistic Knowledge: How Important is It in Studying a Language at University? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 22: 81-95.

Bowden, J. & J. HAJEK. Taba. In J. Esling & F. Nolan (eds.) Handbook of the International Phonetics Association. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 143-146.

Watson, I. & J. HAJEK. A perceptual basis for the Foot Parameter in the Development of Distinctive Nasalization, Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. San Francisco, 1857-1860.

HAJEK, J. & J. BOWDEN. Taba and Roma: Clusters and Geminates in Two Austronesian Languages, Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. San Francisco, 1033-1036.

1998

HAJEK, J. Kenaboi: an Extinct Unclassified Language of the Malay Peninsula, Mon-Khmer Studies 28: 137-162.

HAJEK, J. & I. WATSON. More evidence for the Perceptual Basis of Sound Change? Suprasegmental Effects in the Development of Distinctive Nasalization. In Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Speech and Language Processing. Sydney: Causal, 1763-1766.

1997

HAJEK, J. Universals of Sound Change in Nasalization, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers (1997, reprinted 1999).

HAJEK, J. Analisi acustica della quantità segmentale in area bolognese. Rivista italiana di dialettologia 21: 133-147.

Absalom. M. & J. HAJEK. Raddoppiamento sintattico: What Happens When the Theory Is On Too Tight? In P.M. Bertinetto (ed) Certamen Phonologicum III, Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier, 159-179.

HAJEK, J. Emilia-Romagna. In M. Parry & M. Maiden (eds.) The Dialects of Italy. London: Routledge, 271-278.

HAJEK, J., Warren, J., Manwaring, D., Elder, C. & A. Davies. Grammar? What grammar? Young people today. Australian Language Matters 5:10.

Davies, A., Elder, C., HAJEK, J., Manwaring, D. & J. Warren. What do they know? Language awareness amongst university LOTE students. Australian Language Matters 5:12.

Elder, C., Davies, A., HAJEK, J., Warren, J. & D. Manwaring. Is grammar good for you? The relationship between metalinguistic knowledge and success in studying a language at university. Melbourne Papers in Language Testing 5: 1–21.

1996

HAJEK, J. La Gorgia Toscana and the Problem of Spirantization in Tuscany. In J.-P. Köster, (ed.) Beiträge zur Phonetik und Linguistik 46, University of Trier. 5-60.

Bowden, J. & J. HAJEK. Taba, Journal of the International Phonetics Association 26: 55-57.

Durie, M. & J. HAJEK. Getting it Right: More on an Orthography for Australian English, Australian Journal of Linguistics 15: 227-239.

HAJEK, J. The Gorgia Toscana Isn't What It Used to Be: From One Millennium into the Next, Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 19: 61-74.

HAJEK, J. Unravelling Lowland Semang, Oceanic Linguistics 35: 138-141.

HAJEK, J. & WARREN, J. Why study French and Italian? Understanding motivational orientation in LOTE learning. Australian Language Matters 4:13.

1995

HAJEK, J. A First Acoustic Study of the Interaction between Vowel and Consonant Duration in Bolognese, Rivista italiana di acustica 19: 3-10.

HAJEK, J. A Mystery Solved: the Forgotten Tone Languages of New Ireland, Working Papers in Linguistics 14: 9-14.

HAJEK, J. & N. Nicholas (eds) Working Papers in Linguistics 14, University of Melbourne.

1994

Durie, M. & J. HAJEK. An Improved Standard Orthography for Australian Vowels, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 14: 93-107.
HAJEK, J. Phonological Length and Phonetic Duration in Bolognese: Are They Related? In Togneri, R. (ed) Proceedings of the Fifth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, vol.2: 662-667.

Harrington, J., J. Fletcher & J. HAJEK. Phonemic Vowel Length and Prosody in Australian English. In Togneri, R. (ed) Proceedings of the Fifth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, vol.2: 656-661.

HAJEK, J. Gorgia Toscana and Changing Attitudes in the Twentieth Century. In N. Bivona (ed.) Italian Towards 2000, Melbourne: Victoria University of Technology, 190-195.

HAJEK, J. (ed), Working Papers in Linguistics 13, University of Melbourne

1993

HAJEK, J. Old French Nasalization and Universals of Sound Change, Journal of French Language Studies, 3: 145-164.

HAJEK, J. I dialetti italiani e la nasalizzazione vocalica: tratti universali. In Ramon, Lorenzo (ed.), Actas do XIX Congreso Internacional de Linguistica e Filoloxia Romanicas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1989, vol. IV,  161-168. La Coruña: Fundación ´Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa.

1992

HAJEK, J. A Preliminary Investigation of V/C Complementation in Bolognese, Progress Reports from Oxford Phonetics 5: 25-34.

1991

HAJEK, J. La nasalizzazione nel dialetto bolognese: tratti fonologici. In Luciano Giannelli, Nicoletta Maraschio, Teresa Poggi Salani and Massimo Vedovelli (eds.) Tra Rinascimento e strutture attuali, Turin: Rosenberg and Sellier, 273-279.

HAJEK, J. The Hardening of Nasalized Glides in Bolognese. In Pier Marco Bertinetto, Michael Kenstowicz and Michele Loporcaro (eds.) Certamen Phonologicum II, Turin: Rosenberg and Sellier, 259-278.

Connell, B. & J. HAJEK. Universals of Nasal Attrition, Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, August 19-24, 1991, Aix-en-Provence, 5: 106-109.

HAJEK, J. The Effect of Nasality on Vowel Height: the Allophonic and Phonological Relationship in Romance. Progress Reports from Oxford Phonetics, 4: 23-28.

1990

HAJEK, J. Parlaree: Etymologies and Notes. Spunti e Ricerche, 6: 87-105.

1988

HAJEK, J. The Suffix -unz(a). Vox Romanica, 47: 103-107.

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