It’s been a busy couple of weeks lately, but I have just submitted a mammoth paper (along with my colleagues Prof Catherine Travis and Dr James Grama at the ANU) about the use of sociolinguistic data and analysis to inform dialect coaching of Australian English. This is part of my work on the Sydney Speaks project, funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. Sydney Speaks examines dialectal variation across different ethnic communities of Sydney, based on a unique corpus of audio recordings from the 1970s and the 2010s. Happy that the paper has now been submitted for review, and we will wait to see if it is accepted for publication!
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