Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by publication year
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Cyclic syllabification and a first cycle rule of vowel-rounding in some dialects of Australian English
Published 1980-03-01A 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 ...Other -
Resultatives
Published 1983-01-01This 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 ...Book chapter -
How Warumungu people express new concepts
Published 1985-01-01This 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 ...Article -
The speech of Australian adolescents: research data and recordings collected by A.G. Mitchell and Arthur Delbridge in 1959 and 1960
Published 1998This 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 ...Dataset -
Author Profiling for English and Arabic Emails
Published 2008-01-01This 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 ...Article -
Ngarluma as a W* language
Published 2009-01-27An 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 ...Article -
Moving along the grammaticalisation path: Locative and Allative marking of non-finite clauses and secondary predications in Australian languages
Published 2009-05-19This 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 ...Article -
A dictionary of Ngardi
Published 2011-01-01This 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 ...Publisher version -
Are onshore pathway students prepared for effective university participation? A case study of an international postgraduate cohort
Published 2014-01-01As 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 ...Article -
Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments
Published 2020-01-01Getting 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 ...Book -
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study
Published 2022This 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, ...Article