Catherine Travis' research addresses questions related to linguistic and social factors impacting on language variation and change, in particular in socially diverse communities. As well as the Sydney Speaks project, she also works on language contact in a long-standing Spanish-English bilingual community in northern New Mexico, USA (New Mexico Spanish-English Bilingual project). A book arising from this project, Bilingualism in the Community was published by CUP in 2018 (co-authored with Rena Torres Cacoullos; reprinted in 2020 in paperback). Catherine is Professor of Modern European Languages in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the ANU. She has a BA/Asian Studies (Hons) degree from the ANU (1992), and a PhD in Linguistics and Spanish from La Trobe University (2002). She worked at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque for 10 years, before coming to the ANU in 2012.

Recent Publications

James Grama, Catherine Travis, and Simon Gonzalez. 2021. "Ethnic variation in real time: Change in Australian English diphthongs". In Studies in Language Variation (Papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), 292-314. Amsterdam.

Travis, Catherine, and Torres Cacoullos, Rena. 2021. "Alternating or mixing languages". In English and Spanish: World languages in Interaction, 287-311. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Catherine Travis, and Rena Torres Cacoullos. 2021. "Categories and frequency: Cognition verbs in Spanish subject expression." Languages. 6 (3): 126. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6030126.

Catherine Travis, and Inas Ghina. 2021. "Gender, mobility and contact: Stability and change in an Acehnese dialect." Asia-Pacific Language Variation. 7 (2): 142-167. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.20007.tra.

Simon Gonzalez, James Grama, and Catherine Travis. 2020. "Comparing the performance of forced aligners used in sociophonetic research." Linguistics Vanguard. 6 (1) doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2019-0058.