Her research expertise focuses on the quantitative analysis of language variation and change, with particular interest in longitudinal and cross-varietal comparisons of linguistic systems. She is also interested in decolonised and sustainable academic research practice. Her work has appeared in top linguistics journals, including Language, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics Compass, English World-Wide, English Language and Linguistics and Studies in Language. Celeste is also currently Vice-President of the Australian Linguistic Society. Glenys Collard is a UWA Honorary Research Fellow, a Nyungar matriarch and native speaker of Australian Aboriginal English. (The Nyungar people are the First Nations people of Southwest Western Australia). She has amassed an impressive record of accomplishments in language teaching and learning, curriculum development and education management. She has qualifications in Aboriginal Community Management and Development (Curtin University, 1997) and has chaired multiple state-level and national committees. She has taught workshops to thousands of West Australians and has compiled unique collections for the recording and analysis of Nyungar language and AAE, including recordings of Nyungar language with respected elders in the Nyungar community.
We examine constructed dialogue in a longitudinal corpus of Australian Aboriginal English (AE) spoken in Perth, Australia. We conduct a variationist analysis of naturalistic data from forty-six L1 speakers of AE born 1907–2005. We ask, regarding the use of quotative frames, whether AE has changed in line with settler colonial Englishes. We examine whether a division of labor exists in the use of quotative frames, and whether the rise of first-person-marked internal thought reporting attested in settler colonial Englishes is present in AE. Our statistical modeling shows functional partitioning in how quotative frames are used, with AE speakers strongly encoding direct speech across time. We find that the rise of first-person-marked internal thought reporting has not been systemic in AE. Despite be like's incursion after 1983, the underlying system of AE has not changed. The cultural prerogative to encode speech remains strong despite sustained contact with non-First Nations Australia.
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ENGLISH: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN AN ADOPTED LANGUAGEMalcolm, Ian G.Series: Dialects of English, Series editors: Joan C. Beal, Karen P. Corrigan, Bernd Kortmann, Volume: 16.Boston: De Gruyter, Inc., 2017
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