2019 List of papers & abstracts

Click through to read the abstracts of the papers that will be presented at the Forum.

Regional vowel characteristics of northern Queensland speakers.

Adele Gregory

Pronoun sharing and identity negotiation: construction, concession, and constraint

Cedar Brown

Sociophonetic variability in the /el/-/æl/ merger in Melbourne English: Comparing wordlist and sociolinguistic interviews

Chloé Diskin, Deborah Loakes, Rosey Billington, Simon Gonzalez and Ben Volchok

Processing Australian English vowels: A longitudinal, inter-listener study

Deborah Loakes, Paola Escudero, John Hajek and Josh Clothier

Using ethnic orientation to circumscribe the Chinese-Australian speech community in Sydney

Elena Sheard, Catherine Travis, James Grama and Simon Gonzalez

Bugger and Damn Downunder: the development of taboo negators in Australian English

Isabelle Burke and Kate Burridge

Octocall: the use of sports commentary to investigate linguistic variation

John Rice-Whetton

What does a /b/ sound like in Australian English? It depends on who you’re talking to!

Josh Clothier

The Sounds of Aus 12 years on – capturing Australian Engishes on screen

Lawrie Zion

A corpus-based analysis of Australian English adjective amplification

Martin Schweinberger

Language-related bias and voters’ evaluation of politicians: a qualitative study

Matteo Bonotti and Louisa Willoughby

Getting Acquainted across Englishes: Is there a place for preference in variational (socio)pragmatics?

Michael Haugh

Shaping a new Australian English: challenging the monolingual mindset in second generation migrant writing

Nina Fang

Studying variation in Australian English: why we need a language data commons

Simon Musgrave and Michael Haugh

Indigenous People's Use of English in Melbourne 1835-1845

Stephen Morey