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Authored Books

Watkins, Justin (2013) Dictionary of Wa (2 vols). Leiden: Brill. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 3)

Watkins, Justin (2002) The Phonetics of Wa. Experimental Phonetics, Phonology, Orthography and Sociolinguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Vittrant, Alice and Watkins, Justin, eds. (2019) The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 314)

Watkins, Justin, ed. (2005) Studies in Burmese linguistics. Canberra: Pacific linguistics, Research school of Pacific and Asian studies, The Australian national university.

Lee, Hyun-Joo and Hellmuth, Samantha, eds. (2001) SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 11. London: SOAS University of London.

Book Chapters

Brunelle, Marc, Kirby, James, Michaud, Alexis and Watkins, Justin (2020) 'Mainland Southeast Asia.' In: Gussenhoven, Carlos and Chen, Aoju, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks)

Vittrant, Alice and Watkins, Justin (2019) 'Introduction: Languages of the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area – Grammatical Sketches.' In: Vittrant, Alice and Watkins, Justin, (eds.), The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 1-11. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 314)

Watkins, Justin (2019) 'Wa (Paraok).' In: Vittrant, Alice and Watkins, Justin, (eds.), The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 432-474. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 31)

Watkins, Justin (2013) 'Grammatical aesthetics in Wa.' In: Williams, Jeffrey P., (ed.), The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 99-117.

Watkins, Justin (2007) 'Burma/Myanmar.' In: Simpson, Andrew, (ed.), Language and National Identity in Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 263-287.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2006) 'Reading the Romantic Syair: Women's Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century Riau.' In: Watkins, Justin and Arai, Masami, (eds.), Proceedings of the SOAS/TUFS Postgraduate Symposium. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 117-129.

Watkins, Justin (2005) 'Constituent Focus in Burmese: A Phonetic and Perceptual Study.' In: Watkins, Justin, (ed.), Studies in Burmese Linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics (The Australian National University), pp. 27-331.

Oyètádé, B. Akíntúndé, Hayward, K. and Watkins, Justin (2003) 'The Phonetic Interpretation of Register: Evidence from Yoruba.' In: Local, J., Ogden, R. and Temple, R., (eds.), Phonetic Interpretation. Papers in Laboratory Phonology IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 305-321.

Watkins, Justin (1999) 'Closed quotient of laryngeal gestures and settings in Wa.' In: Ohala, John J., (ed.), Proceedings of the XIVth Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ of California, pp. 1017-1020.

Journal Article

Smith, Chris, Sokhey, Ly, Tijamo, Camille Florence Eder, McLaren, Megan, Free, Caroline, Watkins, Justin, Amra, Ou, Masuda, Chisato and Oreglia, Elisa (2021) 'Development of an intervention to support reproductive health of garment factory workers in Cambodia: a qualitative study.' BMJ Open, 11 (11). e049254.

Watkins, Justin (2013) 'A first account of tone in Myebon Sumtu Chin.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 36 (2). pp. 97-127.

Watkins, Justin (2013) 'A Themed Selection of Wa Proverbs and Sayings.' Journal of Burma Studies, 17 (1). pp. 29-60.

Watkins, Justin (2013) 'A first look at tone in Myebon Sumtu Chin.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 16. pp. 79-104.

Watkins, Justin (2003) 'Tone and Intonation in Burmese.' Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. pp. 1289-1292.

Watkins, Justin (2001) 'Pitch-phonation correlations in Sgaw Karen.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 11. pp. 31-44.

Watkins, Justin (2000) 'Notes on creaky and killed tone in Burmese.' SOAS Working papers in Linguisitics and Phonetics, 10. pp. 139-149.

Watkins, Justin (1997) 'Can phonation types be reliably measured from sound spectra? Some data from Wa and Burmese.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 7. pp. 321-339.

Conference or Workshop Items

Watkins, Justin (2010) Sign language in Burma: two Burmese finger spelling systems used in Yangon. In: Burma Studies Conference 2010: Burma in the Era of Globalization, 6-9 July 2010, Université de Provence, Marseille, France. (Unpublished)

Watkins, Justin (2010) Topicalisation, focus-clefts and stranded prepositions in Wa. In: 20th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 10-11 June 2010, University of Zurich. (Unpublished)

Watkins, Justin (2009) Quelques observations sur les langues des signes en Birmanie. In: Atelier Birmanie: atelier interdisciplinaire sur le thème "Réflexions sur la Birmanie comme lieu de disparités et de convergences", 18-20 June 2009, IRSEA, Université de Provence, Marseille, France. (Unpublished)