Australian Journal of Linguistics

Vol. 9, no. 1 (1989)

(Special issue on Australian English)

Articles

Editorial introduction David Bradley & Roland Sussex 1-2
Variation in the perfective in Inner-Sydney English Edina Eisikovits 3-20
Connected speech processes in Australian English J. C. L. Ingram 21-49
Sociolinguistic variation in the speech of Brisbane adolescents David Lee 51-72
Regionalism in Australian English: The value of newspaper evidence William S. Ramson 73-83
The South-East lexical usage region of Australian English Pauline Bryant 85-134
New configurations: The balance of British and American English features in Australian and Canadian English Pam Peters & Margery Fee 135-147
Attitudes to spoken Australian English: Judgements of ingroup and ethnic outgroup speakers Cynthia Gallois & Victor J. Callan 149-160
Postvocalic r in an Australian English dialect Peter Sutton 161-163
Design, collection, and description of a database of spoken Australian English J. Bruce Millar, Mary O'Kane & Pauline Bryant 165-189

Book reviews

The Australian national dictionary, a dictionary of Australianisms on historical principles (W. S. Ramson, editor) David Bradley 191-195
Australian English: The language of a new society (P. Collins & D. Blair, editors) Peter Peterson 196-198

Abstracts

Design, collection, and description of a database of spoken Australian English

J. Bruce Millar, Mary O'Kane & Pauline Bryant

Abstract: This paper describes the rationale for collection, digitisation and quantitative characterisation of a large multi-speaker database of spoken Australian English. The speakers, fifteen males and eighteen females who were born in Australia of Australian parents, were recorded on ten occasions over a period of months with each speaker recording a variety of speaking styles on each occasion. Extensive biographical and health data were collected for each speaker. Some of the data gathered have been used to give a preliminary quantitative characterisation of the spread of speaker characteristics.

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