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Rosey Billington is a lecturer in Linguistics at the Australian National University, where she teaches within the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, specifically in the College of Arts and Social Sciences. Rosey holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne and a BA (Honours) in Linguistics from Monash University. She joined ANU in 2021 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. Her research interests focus on experimental phonetics and language documentation, particularly concerning the languages of the Pacific, Africa, and Australia. Currently, her main research is centered on the phonetics of Nafsan, a language of the Southern Oceanic family in central Vanuatu, and she has conducted research on the phonetics and phonology of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language from South Sudan. Billington also investigates the phonetic characteristics of various English varieties in Australia and creole languages in the Pacific and Africa. She is active in supervising student research projects related to her fields of expertise, which include phonetics, phonology, Oceanic languages, and sociophonetics.
Australian National University • Canberra, Australia
Lecturer in the field of Linguistics, involved in educating students and conducting research in various linguistic topics.
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