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Professor Janet Fletcher is Professor of Phonetics and Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. She directs the Phonetics Laboratory and serves as a Chief Investigator in the University of Melbourne node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL). Her research specializations include phonetic typology, prosody, intonation, speech timing, laboratory phonology, and Australian Aboriginal languages. She investigates the intonation and prosody of Australian English, intonation patterns in Australian and Oceanic languages, coarticulation effects in Australian languages, the phonetics-phonology interface, sound change, forensic phonetics, sociophonetics, and phonetics of English as a second language. Fletcher has led or contributed to major projects such as the ARC-funded Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (2014-2021), the ARC Discovery Project 'Are super-complex words represented like sentences in speakers' minds?' (2018-2020) with Associate Professor Brett Baker and Dr Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, the ARC project on the structure and meaning of intonation in three Australian languages with Dr Ruth Singer and Dr Marija Tabain, and the Big Australian Speech Corpus (AuSpeech) with Dr Debbie Loakes, Professor John Hajek, Professor David Grayden, and Professor Steven Bird.