Very excited that a recent article I co-authored with Dr James Grama and Professor Catherine Travis of Sydney Speaks has been accepted and published online with the Voice and Speech Review! Our article is titled “Australian English Over Time: Using Sociolinguistic Analysis to Inform Dialect Coaching”, and brings together acoustic vowel data spanning forty years to examine the changes in Sydney English, and how this can apply to coaching of Australian accents. This is my first research publication, and I’m thrilled to be able to share this after all our hard work.
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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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Today I received word that an abstract that was submitted for the Australian Linguistic Society conference coming up in December has been accepted! The paper examines how dialect variation in Australian English is linked to social class, and the methodological issues of how to adequately define “social class” within the field of sociolinguistics.
This paper is a joint effort between myself and my colleagues at the Australian National University,
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