Felicity Cox

Felicity Cox is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She has 30 years’ experience in teaching and research in phonetics and phonology and is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on the Australian English accent. She has published extensively on the phonetic characteristics of the variety with a particular focus on its history, evolution and variation. Her main research interests include the phonetic and phonological analysis of sound change, the acquisition of phonology, and sociophonetics. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, a member of the International Phonetic Association and the Australian Linguistic Society, and is the President of the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association.