https://hdl.handle.net/2123/95 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:49:37 GMT 2026-06-09T08:49:37Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/31585 The speech of Australian adolescents: research data and recordings collected by A.G. Mitchell and Arthur Delbridge in 1959 and 1960 Mitchell, A. G. (Alexander George); Delbridge, Arthur This dataset contains research data and recordings of Australian English as spoken by 7736 students at 330 schools across Australia, collected 1959-1960. The recordings were made on reel-to-reel tapes and were used to create the 1965 monograph 'The speech of Australian adolescents: a survey' and the revised 1965 publication 'The pronunciation of English in Australia' (originally published in 1946). The original reel-to-reel tapes were digitised by the National Film and Sound Archive, transferred to DAT recordings, and the digitised version was reissued as an online database 'The Mitchell and Delbridge tapes' by the University of Sydney in 1997-1998. The website included contextual documents and annotations to the online database, included in this dataset. Thu, 01 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/31585 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28425 Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study Fuoli, Matteo; Bednarek, Monika This article presents a novel framework for examining how emotional labor is performed linguistically. Bringing together Arlie Hochschild's pioneering sociological work and insights from the linguistic literature on emotion, the framework aims to capture the discursive mechanisms through which workers express, background and manage emotions in fulfilling their professional roles. We demonstrate the framework through a case study of a corpus of Twitter interactions involving passengers and airline customer service agents during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Following recent calls for triangulation in corpus linguistics, we explore the corpus using three complementary methods: lexical, move and dialogic analysis. From a theoretical perspective, this study contributes to improving our understanding of the pervasive phenomenon of emotional labor. From an applied perspective, it offers a new approach for assessing communication practices in various professional contexts. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28425 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24126 Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments Floyd, Simeon; Rossi, Giovanni; Enfield, N. J. Getting others to do things is a central part of social interaction in any human society. Language is our main tool for this purpose. In this book, we show that sequences of interaction in which one person’s behaviour solicits or occasions another’s assistance or collaboration share common structural properties that provide a basis for the systematic comparison of this domain across languages. The goal of this comparison is to uncover similarities and differences in how language and other conduct are used in carrying out social action around the world, including different kinds of requests, orders, suggestions, and other actions brought together under the rubric of recruitment. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24126 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22888 Are onshore pathway students prepared for effective university participation? A case study of an international postgraduate cohort Dyson, Bronwen Patricia As English language (EL) proficiency becomes a key issue for Australian universities, EL entry levels and the pathways preparing international students for university are also rising in importance. Crucially, according to recent Australian government policy, universities are responsible for ensuring that students entering university have sufficient EL competence to participate effectively in their courses. This policy has its origins in concerns as to whether the large number of entrants from onshore (Australian) pathways have possessed adequate English skills. Despite these concerns, there has been little examination of this issue. The present study aimed to examine whether one cohort of onshore international postgraduate students was prepared for effective university participation. Three measures of participation were employed: student perceptions of preparation, English written proficiency and university grades. The study comprised two phases. In the first phase, the students (N = 173) completed a questionnaire on pathway preparation and wrote an essay. The results for the essay were further divided into those who entered and did not enter university. In the second phase, focus interviews were conducted (N = 8) and academic grades were collected from those who completed first semester subjects (N = 106) and their peers. The study revealed that the students perceived their academic skills as better than their language skills, did not receive significantly different grades to their peers but exhibited high levels of “at risk” writing, especially in their use of source material and grammar. The paper concludes that increased university monitoring of pathways on a range of key, language-related measures, particularly writing, is vital. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22888 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21407 A dictionary of Ngardi Cataldi, Lee This dictionary was compiled by Lee Cataldi 2004. This version of the dictionary was completed in 2011. Copyright is held by the Ngardi elders - Mungkirna Napaljarri as of printing. Requests for any further use of contents can be made through: Balgo School C/- PO HALLS CREEK WA 6770 The front cover painting is by Tjama Napanangka, and is for the Two Man Dreaming (Watikujarra) and shows the two brothers by one fire and their old mother by the other smaller one. Painted in 2000 in Balgo. The back cover painting is also by Tjama Napanangka and is titled Purlka Purlka. This is a site where two soak waters (the black circles) are located along the Watikujarra (two men) dreaming track. Work on this dictionary was supported by ARC Grant A10009036, Chief Investigators Christopher Manning and Jane Simpson and it was also supported by The School of Letters, Arts and Media, University of Sydney, 2010 The dictionary is encoded in XML and is available in other formats. Contact Lee (leecataldi@bigpond.com), or Tom Honeyman (t.honeyman@gmail.com) for more information. This document has been generated with RenderX XEP. Visit http://www.renderx.com/ to learn more about RenderX family of software solutions for digital typography. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21407 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/5839 Author Profiling for English and Arabic Emails Estival, Dominique; Gaustad, Tanja; Hutchinson, Ben; Pham, Son Bao; Radford, Will This paper reports on some aspects of a research project aimed at automating the analysis of texts for the purpose of author profiling and identification. The Text Attribution Tool (TAT) was developed for the purpose of language-independent author profiling and has now been trained on two email corpora, English and Arabic. The complete analysis provides probabilities for the author’s basic demographic traits (gender, age, geographic origin, level of education and native language) as well as for five psychometric traits. The prototype system also provides a probability of a match with other texts, whether from known or unknown authors. A very important part of the project was the data collection and we give an overview of the collection process as well as a detailed description of the corpus of email data which was collected. We describe the overall TAT system and its components before outlining the ways in which the email data is processed and analysed. Because Arabic presents particular challenges for NLP, this paper also describes more specifically the text processing components developed to handle Arabic emails. Finally, we describe the Machine Learning setup used to produce classifiers for the different author traits and we present the experimental results, which are promising for most traits examined. Submitted for publication in 2008 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/5839 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/5794 How Warumungu people express new concepts Simpson, Jane This article describes strategies used by Warumungu speakers to create new words and ways of expressing new concepts, in the context of multilingual society in which speakers of Indigenous Australian languages view language as a property. The strategies include borrowing, onomatopoeia, compounding, derivation, extension of existing words, including polysemous extensions such as actual/potential and container/contained Tue, 01 Jan 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/5794 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/4989 Moving along the grammaticalisation path: Locative and Allative marking of non-finite clauses and secondary predications in Australian languages McConvell, Patrick; Simpson, Jane This paper examines three grammaticalised instances of local case-marking in Indigenous languages of northern Central Australia, coded as follows: (AN) Allative expressing object control on NP’s - the use of allative instead of locative in the meaning of ‘locative’ in a secondary predication where the subject of that predication has the same reference as an object or oblique in the main predication; (LS) Locative marked subordination the use of locative case-marking on the verb and other elements to mark types of non-finite subordinate clauses; (AS) Allative marked subordination expressing object control, combining features of A and LS, usually where LS is also present. The different distributions of these properties are plotted in a number of Central and northern Australian languages to provide a picture of current distribution and hypotheses about the origin of these constructions. The hypothesis proposed here is that the AN construction arose in a group of Pama-Nyungan languages in a restricted area of North-central Australia and partially overlapped with the presence of the LS construction in a wider grouping of Pama-Nyungan languages. This cooccurrence produced the AS construction, which subsequently diffused to a few neighbouring languages, including some Non-Pama-Nyungan languages. Both AN and AS can be called grammaticalisation since they depart from the semantic functions of the locational cases to mark control phenomena between predications. The marking of subordinate clauses by local cases, and particularly locative case, is relatively common cross-linguistically outside Australia and arguably maintains some cognitive metaphorical link with static location and motion, perhaps primarily through the near-universal ‘space=time’ metaphor. In AN, we see a much rarer development in which the metaphorical link between the concrete local meaning and the grammatical function is attenuated, although the possibility that AN involves ‘fictive motion’ as in Finnic languages is discussed. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the PIONIER Workshop on Locative Case, 25-–26 August 2008, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/4989 2009-05-19T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/4025 Ngarluma as a W* language Simpson, Jane An account of the morpho-syntax of Ngarluma, an Australian language spoken in the Pilbara, is given based on Kenneth Hale's fieldnotes together with Carl von Brandenstein's published texts. The analysis uses the W* framework proposed by Kenneth Hale, to describe the free word order, discontinuous phrases, valence-changing suffixes, case system and use of case to indicate identity of controllers. The paper was typewritten with handwritten labels and diagrams, and has faded badly. It was submitted as a generals paper in 1981. Some of the data and analysis were cited in later literature. Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/4025 2009-01-27T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/1725 Cyclic syllabification and a first cycle rule of vowel-rounding in some dialects of Australian English Simpson, Jane A discussion of the realisation of /l/ in Australian English, and of the quality of back vowels preceding the /l/, especially in Cultivated Adelaide English. A technical solution making use of cyclic syllabification is proposed, and evidence from /r/ insertion is adduced. This is an unpublished term-paper (March 1980) forming part of Simpson's doctoral course-work at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It has been cited in the phonological literature. Sat, 01 Mar 1980 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/1725 1980-03-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/140 Resultatives Simpson, Jane This paper looks at the syntactic and semantic conditions in English on resultative attributes, which describe the state of an entity resulting from the action denoted by the main predicate. It is argued that these entities are expressed as the objects of transitive verbs, and the subject of intransitive unaccusative verbs. A fake object construction is required for a resultative to describe the state of an entity expressed as the subject of an intransitive unergative verb or an indefinite object-deleting verb. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/140 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z