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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 Mouton. (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.

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 Mouton, pp. 1-11. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 314)

Watkins, Justin (2019) 'Wa (Paraok).' In: The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 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, A., (ed.), Language & 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.

Oyetade, Akin, 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: Proceedings of the XIVth Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Univ of California, pp. 1017-1020.

Journal Article

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 Linguisitics and Phonetics, 1. 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) 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)