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Research interests
I investigate speech production and perception, and phonological organization in human language. We use MRI, electromagnetic articulography (EMA), ultrasound, eye-tracking, and other technologies to investigate how speech sounds are made and processed, and how language is acquired and used by adults, children, second language learners, and disordered populations.
Research student supervision
Applications from students interested in higher degree research at Macquarie, or through IDEALAB are welcomed. We are happy to consider dissertation proposals which address key issues in phonetics or phonology with a strong theoretical motivation and an elaborated experimental component.
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MQRF 25: The birth of new Australian Aboriginal Languages: the role of speaker identity in language genesis
Browne, M. (Primary Chief Investigator), Proctor, M. (Sponsor) & Blythe, J. (Supervisor)
3/03/25 → 2/03/29
Project: Research
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Visualising Voice and Speech (VisVoiS): Bridging Experimental and Clinical Research to Accelerate Impactful Discovery
Cox, F. (Primary Chief Investigator), Proctor, M. (Primary Chief Investigator), Szakay, A. (Primary Chief Investigator), Penney, J. (Primary Chief Investigator), Ratko, L. (Primary Chief Investigator), Palethorpe, S. (Primary Chief Investigator), Kim, J.-H. (Primary Chief Investigator), Barnes, S. (Primary Chief Investigator), Layfield, C. (Primary Chief Investigator), Harvey, R. (Primary Chief Investigator), Ing, A. (Primary Chief Investigator), Hirschhorn, A. (Primary Chief Investigator), Gourley, P. (Primary Chief Investigator) & Black, N. (Primary Chief Investigator)
1/09/22 → …
Project: Research
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USYD Led: Developmental trajectory of tongue control for speech with real-time MRI
Ballard, K. J. (Chief Investigator), Proctor, M. (Primary Chief Investigator), Jin, C. (Chief Investigator) & Gully, A. (Partner Investigator)
1/07/22 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Solving the puzzle of complex speech sounds
Proctor, M. (Primary Chief Investigator)
30/06/15 → …
Project: Research
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The phonological structure of Kaytetye: Unique or universal?
Proctor, M. (Primary Chief Investigator), Harvey, M. (Chief Investigator) & Turpin, M. (Chief Investigator)
2/04/15 → …
Project: Research
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Central vowels in Kamu and Larrakia
Browne, M., Harvey, M., Proctor, M. & Mailhammer, R., 2026, In: Australian Journal of Linguistics. 46, 1, p. 138-158 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Constrained LDDMM for dynamic vocal tract morphing: integrating volumetric and real-time MRI
Piyadasa, T., Glaunès, J., Gully, A., Proctor, M., Ballard, K., Szalay, T., Sanaei, N., Foster, S., Waddington, D. & Jin, C., 2025, Interspeech 2025: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), p. 968-972 5 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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Lateral channel formation in Australian English /l/: insights from Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Szalay, T., Proctor, M., Gully, A., Piyadasa, T., Jin, C., Waddington, D., Sanaei, N., Foster, S. & Ballard, K., 2025, Interspeech 2025: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), p. 3489-3493 5 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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Rhotic articulation in Australian English: insights from MRI
Proctor, M., Szalay, T., Piyadasa, T., Jin, C., Sanaei, N., Gully, A., Waddington, D., Foster, S. & Ballard, K., 2025, Interspeech 2025: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), p. 3499-3503 5 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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Characterizing rhotic articulation in Australian English using ultrasound
Proctor, M., Kim, J.-H., Penney, J., Ratko, L. & Cox, F., 2024, Proceedings of the nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology: SST 2024. Maxwell, O. & Bundgaard-Nielsen, R. (eds.). Melbourne, Victoria: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, p. 82-86 5 p. (Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review
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Supplementary Materials to Central vowels in Kamu and Larrakia
Browne, M. (Owner), Harvey, M. (Contributor), Proctor, M. (Contributor) & Mailhammer, R. (Contributor), Macquarie University, 20 Oct 2025
DOI: 10.25949/29376932.v1
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