John Hajek
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81754 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Hajek |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Hajek |
| FIRMA | HAJEK J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1335-4273 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Perception of Japanese Consonant Length by Native Malay Speakers
The present study investigated how the consonant length contrast in Japanese (i.e., word-medial singletons vs. word-medial geminates) was perceived by native Malay speakers according to previous first language (L1) familiarity with such a contrast. The participants were Kedah Malay [KDM (-quantity)] and Kelantan Malay [KLM (+quantity)] speakers who differed in terms of their familiarity with quantity systems. That is, the KDM (-quantity) speakers…
The workplace as a panoptic machine
This study examines linguistic surveillance as experienced by migrants in their workplace in Australia. Through the Foucauldian lens of surveillance and panopticism, it describes migrant employees’ reports on how their use of languages other than English is hierarchically observed and morally judged by their managers and co-workers. This linguistic surveillance operates within a mechanism of power, through which the surveiller (i.e. monitor) – in…
Intercultural learning and motivation in the second language classroom
The integration of cultural topics into second language (L2) teaching is widely acknowledged as a crucial component of effective pedagogy to enhance learners’ motivation and construction of multicultural and multilingual selves. Scholars have emphasised the embedded presence of culture in language education. However, explicit incorporation of cultural topics in formal L2 contexts often presents challenges, including potential misunderstandings, o…
Evaluating a Vietnamese language exposure program for preschool heritage and additional language learners
This study evaluates the third implementation of the Little Multilingual Minds (LMM) program, which was a Vietnamese language exposure program delivered in a Melbourne preschool serving in part a large Vietnamese-speaking community. The program adopted a play-based, Content and Language Integrated Learning approach using Vietnamese as the language of instruction. It included thematic units that progressively increased in conceptual and linguistic…
Lexical contact in Africa
We examine the presence of Italian loanwords in Mà’dí (ISO 630 code [mhi]), a Moru-Madi language spoken in South Sudan and Uganda. The existence of Italian loanwords elsewhere in Africa is the result primarily of colonial contact, and/or the presence of communities of Italian-speakers originally from Italy. We show that the Italian loanwords in Mà’dí have two sources of transmission: (a) direct contact with Italian Catholic missionaries; (b) indi…
“Your English Is . . .” Linguistic Bias and the Construction of Self and Other
Aims: This article examines linguistic bias as experienced by migrants of different language backgrounds in Australia, focusing on their construction of Self as shaped by the perpetrators of bias. Approach, data, and analysis: It draws on narrative interview data and applies a thematic analysis method, and makes use of the Sartrean conception of gaze in relation to the Self and the Other to understand how the participants make sense of their Self…
A cross-linguistic and pluricentric analysis of address patterns in automobile brand websites
Pragmatic variation in pluricentric languages is an area of increasing research interest, although little explored to date in the case of Italian (and even less so in the case of marketing). Examination of a corpus of French, German and Italian car brand websites across language varieties shows patterns of (in)formal address pronoun use in Italian in Italy and Switzerland are very different: informal tu prevails in Italy, while in Swiss Italian a…
Translanguaging in research interviews
This article examines translanguaging in the context of research interviews, considering translanguaging as a social practice process. Drawing on metalinguistic data from a research project which focuses on Vietnamese international students in Taiwan, we suggest that in doing translanguaging, the participants reflexively transpositioned themselves from a Vietnamese language user to a range of other roles such as: English/Chinese language expert, …
Enacting Everyday Linguistic Citizenship
This article examines the language life of young Malaysian Chinese immigrants in Australia and their construction of multi‐membership as reflected in their daily language behaviors. It develops the concept of everyday linguistic citizenship and uses this concept as a theoretical lens to understand how the young adults build, maintain, and negotiate their membership of different social units through language. Ethnographic interview data suggests t…
Enabling multilingual learners’ agency and language ownership in additional language writing
Pedagogical translanguaging opens space, through purposeful design, to draw on learners’ linguistic and cultural repertoires as a valuable resource for further language development. This pedagogical approach involves planning tasks and conditions for learners to access the breadth of their linguistic repertoire in the learning process to enable translanguaging practices in the classroom. Much research on pedagogical translanguaging to date has in…
The acoustic realization of intervocalic /v/ and /v
This study examines the variation in the acoustic properties of the allophones of intervocalic /v/ and /vː/ in Italian, a typologically unusual case where voiced labiodental fricatives contrast phonemically in length. Through an acoustic analysis of read speech from 18 speakers across three regional varieties (Veneto, Roman, Calabrian), we investigate whether realization patterns are shaped by prosodic (phase position and stress placement) and in…
Do Australians hear ethnicity
Changes in migration alter the linguistic ecology of countries, giving rise to hybrid social identities and ethnically marked ways of speaking (‘ethnolects’). Studies of Australian English ethnolects focus on linguistic production, but we do not know whether Australians can identify ethnicity based on speech, the social and personal characteristics they attribute to ways of speaking, and what linguistic features they pick up on. We used stimuli e…
The linguicized subject
In this article, we examine how migrants with a language other than English background are exposed to linguistic discrimination in relation to the English-only discourse of their daily life in Australia, labelling such discrimination as everyday linguicism. By engaging in a scholarly conversation on subjectivity, discourse, and power, we conceptualize and make use of the notion linguicized subjectivity as a thinking tool to interpret incidents of…
Enhancing heritage and additional language learning in the preschool years
Little Multilingual Minds (LMM) partners with universities, communities, and early childhood centers to offer a language exposure program for heritage language (HL) and additional language (AL) speakers in a naturalistic, play-based environment. This paper reports on two program implementations conducted in a Spanish-English bilingual preschool in Sydney, Australia. Implementation 1 focused on HL Spanish children ( n = 11; Mage = 4.24) for HL mai…
Language shift patterns amongst first-generation migrant communities in Australia
Engaging with Oral Community Language Collections in Australia
Saliba-Logea
Fostering well-being in the university L2 classroom
This study explores the effect of a project-based learning module informed by the principles of the Deep Approach to World Language Education on students’ well-being in an advanced Italian language subject. Data were collected via a questionnaire ( n = 21) created in light of Oxford’s EMPATHICS model of well-being. As part of this module, students were tasked with creating and self-publishing an illustrated story in Italian. Results indicate that…
The association between cultural and linguistic maintenance and mental health in migrant adolescents
BACKGROUND: Although previous reviews have examined the relationship between heritage cultural maintenance and mental health outcomes among migrants, none have focussed specifically on migrant adolescents (i.e. those aged 10-24 years). AIMS: To examine (1) the focus, scope and nature of quantitative empirical research investigating heritage cultural maintenance - including linguistic maintenance - and mental health outcomes among migrant adolesce…
The impact of policy settings on language education in Australian schools
We explore the impact of language education policy on language enrolments and provision in primary and secondary government schools In Australia, specifically in New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, which have strikingly different policy settings. NSW adopts a 'weak but flexible' policy, mandating a very limited minimum time allocation for language study but allowing multiple entry points at senior secondary level. Victoria adopts a 'strong' manda…
Motivation for learning Chinese in a study abroad context
This article examines Vietnamese students’ motivation for learning Mandarin Chinese during their study abroad in Taiwan and their construction of self in relation to this language learning motivation. A combination of several concepts of ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, instrumental motive, integrative motive, linguistic capital, and multiple self-aspects is used as a theoretical lens to gain insights into the students’ Chinese learning motivatio…
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English
This study involves a perceptual categorization task for Australian English, designed to investigate regional and social variation in category boundaries between close-front vowel contrasts. Data are from four locations in southeast Australia. A total of 81 listeners from two listener groups took part: (a) so-called mainstream Australian English listeners from all four locations, and (b) L1 Aboriginal English listeners from one of the locations. …
Cross-Regional Patterns of Obstruent Voicing and Gemination
Italian has a length contrast in its series of voiced and voiceless obstruents while also presenting phonetic differences across regional varieties. Northern varieties of the language, including Veneto Italian (VI), are described as maintaining the voicing contrast but, in some cases, not the length contrast. In central and southern varieties, the opposite trend may occur. For instance, Roman Italian (RI) is reported to optionally pre-voice inter…
Covid-19 and vaccine health promotion resources in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
Risk communication during a public health crisis necessitates the provision of accessible, timely and accurate health information to the public. The aim of this research project was to explore the availability and characteristics of COVID-19 and vaccine health promotional materials published in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. We aimed to identify the strategies used by Aboriginal-led organizations and Departments of Health to imp…
Paolo Coluzzi
Language Planning and the Sociolinguistic Environment in East Timor
East Timor has in recent times generated significant public interest around the world, especially after the events of August–September 1999. It has an unusual colonial history: centuries of Portuguese contact and control (1500s–1975) were followed by a brief but very intense period of Indonesian occupation (1975–1999). From the language-planning perspective, it makes for a relatively unusual case study since it allows us to consider the impact of…
Closure duration as an acoustic correlate of the word-initial singleton/geminate consonant contrast in Kelantan Malay
Fostering motivation and creativity through self‐publishing as project‐based learning in the Italian L2 classroom
This article presents the results of a mixed‐method study that investigated the impact of an innovative project‐based learning module, entitled “I am an author,” on students' motivation and creativity, and also examined its positive and negative aspects emerging from students' evaluations. As part of this module, advanced learners of Italian are required to write and self‐publish a short, fully illustrated children's story in Italian. The results…
Needs and demands for heritage language support in Australia
This paper reports on a survey conducted in Australia among parents raising their children with a heritage language (HL). We found strong awareness of the importance of HL maintenance (95%), but only moderate levels of engagement (37–44%) with community initiatives for HL support. There were significantly more primary school-aged children reported as enrolled in community language schools than pre-school aged children, but attendance at informal …
Making the case for linguicism
In an effort to foreground the concept of linguicism, this article provides a critical review of the research literature on linguistic discrimination, focusing on common concepts and terms applied to characterise the issue. Giving particular attention to studies which directly consider discrimination based on language or linguistic factors, we identify three main groups of concepts and terms which are widely used, including (a) race-based concept…
Non-native Japanese learners’ perception of consonant length in Japanese and Italian
Learners of a foreign language (FL) typically have to learn to process sounds that do not exist in their first language (L1). As this is known to be difficult for adults, in particular, it is important for FL pedagogy to be informed by phonetic research. This study examined the role of FL learners’ previous linguistic experience in the processing of a contrast absent in the L1. The FLs under investigation are Japanese and Italian, which both use …
Gayo
Gayo is an Austronesian language spoken by some 260,000 people in the central highlands of the Indonesian province of Aceh, at the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Gayo belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family of languages (Ross 1995, Blust 1999). Nothofer (1994) places Gayo along with Nias, Mentawai, Enggano and the various Batak languages in a North-West Sumatra/Barrier Islands subgroup. Five distinct but mutuall…
Language contact and functional expansion in Tetun Dili
Tetun Dili, an Austronesian language spoken in East Timor, was until 1999 primarily an oral language of intercultural communication. Since the 1999 vote on independence from Indonesia, Tetun Dili has become the dominant language of public life, including the government, education and the media, as well as becoming an official language alongside Portuguese, a former colonial language. The rapidly evolving press register of Tetun shows significant …
Can you t[æ]ll I’m from M[æ]lbourne
This study gives an overview of the merger of the dress and trap vowels before laterals, which occurs for some speakers of Australian English in the state of Victoria (in the south-east of the country), as well as in some other varieties of English. Research on this phenomenon in Australian English has been preliminary to date, but has uncovered some general tendencies in distribution, as well as possible motivators for actuation and spread of th…
Mah Meri
Mah Meri (ãʔ məri) belongs to the Aslian branch of Mon-Khmer within the Austroasiatic family. It is classified as a Southern Aslian language, along with Semelai, Semoq Beri and Temoq (Benjamin 1976). Mah Meri is spoken by the Mah Meri ethnic group in scattered settlements along the south-west coast of the Malay peninsula stretching from Port Kelang to Bukit Bangkong, Sepang in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The island of Sumatra lies a short di…
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English
This study involves a perceptual categorization task for Australian English, designed to investigate regional and social variation in category boundaries between close-front vowel contrasts. Data are from four locations in southeast Australia. A total of 81 listeners from two listener groups took part: (a) so-called mainstream Australian English listeners from all four locations, and (b) L1 Aboriginal English listeners from one of the locations. …
Broadcasting during Covid-19
Community language radio is known to provide information and social connection for community members. This article examines the role of community language radio in Australia during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Drawing on data from interviews with four presenters at a community language radio station in Melbourne, this case study explores the station’s operation during the pandemic and presenter perceptions of the station’s contributions to suppo…
Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds
This study compared individuals from two first language (L1) backgrounds (Italian, Mandarin) to determine how they may differ in their perception of Japanese consonant length (i.e. singleton vs. geminate) according to the phonemic status of length in L1 and experience with Japanese. The participants included two groups of non-native learners of Japanese: 14 native Italian speakers (NI + Japanese), 18 native Mandarin speakers (NM + Japanese) and t…
Understanding international student connectedness
From the Periphery to Center Stage
This article examines the complex drivers of change in language education that have resulted in Australia having the highest number of students learning Italian in the world. An analysis of academic and non-academic literature, policy documents, and quantitative data helps trace the trajectory of the Italian language in the Australian education system, from the 1960s to the 1990s, illustrating the interaction of different variables that facilitat…
A Multidimensional Understanding of Italian L2 Learner Motivation among University Students in a Predominantly English-Speaking Environment
Studies on motivation in learning Italian in Australia have mostly shed light on students' creation of an ideal Italian self (e.g., Caruso and Fraschini). In doing so, they appear mainly to explore students' psychological reactions to the Italian learning process. Our study aims to complement previous research through the use of a three-level model (D'Orazzi, Motivation) that incorporates the analysis of psychological and cognitive components at …
The East Timorese in Australia
This article explores language repertoires, attitudes, and practices amongst members of the East Timorese diaspora in Australia. It relies on quantitative and qualitative data gathered through a recent sociolinguistic survey, ethnographic observation, as well as on general observations of online language use. Our study reveals a complex multilingualism that reflects in the first instance specific sociolinguistic conditions and changing language p…
Social deixis at international conferences
An Investigation of the /el/–/æl/ Merger in Australian English
This exploratory study looks at evidence of merger between /el/ and /æl/ in Australian English, and the possible relationship between production and perception that might be involved in such a process. This merger appears to occur primarily in Victoria, although its regional distribution within that state still requires investigation. The phenomenon appears to be motivated by the interaction of three different phonetic processes: increasing later…
Minority language speakers as migrants
The language problems faced by migrants may be more complex when they come from a minority language group in their homeland. The new arrivals may find that there are few, or even no, speakers of their language in the community to which they have moved. Then decisions have to be made as to whether to attempt to maintain the native language and also whether to join in larger groupings of people from the country of origin, groups that may use domina…
Getting it right
(1995). Getting it right: More on an orthography for Australian English. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 227-239
A revised standard phonemic orthography for Australian English vowels 1
(1994). A revised standard phonemic orthography for Australian English vowels. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 93-107
Fostering well-being in the university L2 classroom
This study explores the effect of a project-based learning module informed by the principles of the Deep Approach to World Language Education on students’ well-being in an advanced Italian language subject. Data were collected via a questionnaire ( n = 21) created in light of Oxford’s EMPATHICS model of well-being. As part of this module, students were tasked with creating and self-publishing an illustrated story in Italian. Results indicate that…
The impact of policy settings on language education in Australian schools
We explore the impact of language education policy on language enrolments and provision in primary and secondary government schools In Australia, specifically in New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, which have strikingly different policy settings. NSW adopts a 'weak but flexible' policy, mandating a very limited minimum time allocation for language study but allowing multiple entry points at senior secondary level. Victoria adopts a 'strong' manda…
Motivation for learning Chinese in a study abroad context
This article examines Vietnamese students’ motivation for learning Mandarin Chinese during their study abroad in Taiwan and their construction of self in relation to this language learning motivation. A combination of several concepts of ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, instrumental motive, integrative motive, linguistic capital, and multiple self-aspects is used as a theoretical lens to gain insights into the students’ Chinese learning motivatio…
A revised standard phonemic orthography for Australian English vowels 1
(1994). A revised standard phonemic orthography for Australian English vowels. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 93-107
Getting it right
(1995). Getting it right: More on an orthography for Australian English. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 227-239
Unraveling Lowland Semang
Taba
Taba (also known as 'East Makian' or 'Makian Dalam') is an Austronesian language spoken in northern Maluku province, Indonesia. It is spoken on Makian, Moti and Kayoa islands and also in a few villages on other nearby islands. The speech recorded here is from the village of Ngofakiaha on Makian island. Slight dialectal variations are to be found in most villages where the language is spoken
Universals of Sound Change in Nasalization
The phonetic status of the labial flap
The labial flap is a speech sound which has received little attention in the literature. In this paper, we document the articulation of the sound, including audio and video data from Mono (D.R. Congo, Ubangian). The sound is attested in over sixty languages and has been incorporated into the phonological system of at least a dozen of them. The sound is easily describable in terms of values of phonological features or phonetic parameters, and it a…
Language Planning and the Sociolinguistic Environment in East Timor
East Timor has in recent times generated significant public interest around the world, especially after the events of August–September 1999. It has an unusual colonial history: centuries of Portuguese contact and control (1500s–1975) were followed by a brief but very intense period of Indonesian occupation (1975–1999). From the language-planning perspective, it makes for a relatively unusual case study since it allows us to consider the impact of…
A Phonological Oddity in the Austronesian Area
A Phonological Oddity in the Austronesian Area:Ejectives in Waimoa1 John Hajek and John Bowden Abstract Details are provided about a series of ejective stops in Waimoa, spoken in East Timor. Not uncommon in other parts of the world, ejective stops are exceptionally rare within the whole Austronesian area. We report here on the existence of voiceless ejective stops in Waimoa (also Waima'a), an Austronesian language spoken in East Timor. This is on…
Word-initial geminates and stress in Pattani Malay
In quantity-sensitive stress languages, syllable weight is typically determined by looking at the rhyme only. The location of stress in these languages depends on syllable weight, and hence, the onset never influences the placement of stress. This has long been considered to be a linguistic universal. However, recent phonological studies reveal the existence of languages in which geminate onsets can influence syllable weight as relevant to phonol…
Lóvaia
A crosslinguistic lexicon of the labial flap
We provide a large sample of the occurrences of the labial flap in the world's languages, including audio and video data from the Mono dialect of Mid-Southern Banda. This sample provides the evidence for
The Rise and Fall of Modern Greek in Australia’s Universities
In this article, we look at the state of Modern Greek in Australian universities, focusing on quantitative analysis of its rise and fall in the relatively short period of 35 years since it was first taught as a university subject in Australia. We consider the possible reasons behind this trajectory, in particular correlations with changing demography and a concomitant decline in the study of Greek in the secondary sector. We also ponder the futur…
Gayo
Gayo is an Austronesian language spoken by some 260,000 people in the central highlands of the Indonesian province of Aceh, at the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Gayo belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family of languages (Ross 1995, Blust 1999). Nothofer (1994) places Gayo along with Nias, Mentawai, Enggano and the various Batak languages in a North-West Sumatra/Barrier Islands subgroup. Five distinct but mutuall…
Mah Meri
Mah Meri (ãʔ məri) belongs to the Aslian branch of Mon-Khmer within the Austroasiatic family. It is classified as a Southern Aslian language, along with Semelai, Semoq Beri and Temoq (Benjamin 1976). Mah Meri is spoken by the Mah Meri ethnic group in scattered settlements along the south-west coast of the Malay peninsula stretching from Port Kelang to Bukit Bangkong, Sepang in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The island of Sumatra lies a short di…
How many peripheral low vowels can you have
Minority language speakers as migrants
The language problems faced by migrants may be more complex when they come from a minority language group in their homeland. The new arrivals may find that there are few, or even no, speakers of their language in the community to which they have moved. Then decisions have to be made as to whether to attempt to maintain the native language and also whether to join in larger groupings of people from the country of origin, groups that may use domina…
Challenging the Monolingual Mindset
An Investigation of the /el/–/æl/ Merger in Australian English
This exploratory study looks at evidence of merger between /el/ and /æl/ in Australian English, and the possible relationship between production and perception that might be involved in such a process. This merger appears to occur primarily in Victoria, although its regional distribution within that state still requires investigation. The phenomenon appears to be motivated by the interaction of three different phonetic processes: increasing later…
Challenging the monolingual mindset
The effect of Italo-Romance contact on the Greek cluster vɣ in Corsica and the implications for sound change in Italiot Greek in Southern Italy
In this study we describe a change in the phonotactic structure of Corsican or Cargese Greek, involving the historical cluster /vɣ/, and relate it to contact with local Italo-Romance (Corsican). While the change in Cargese is seen to be very limited in scope, it provides a useful key to a better understanding of a similar but more complex series of changes in Greek dialects spoken in another Italo-Romance contact situation some distance away in S…
Closure duration as an acoustic correlate of the word-initial singleton/geminate consonant contrast in Kelantan Malay
Non-native Japanese learners’ perception of consonant length in Japanese and Italian
Learners of a foreign language (FL) typically have to learn to process sounds that do not exist in their first language (L1). As this is known to be difficult for adults, in particular, it is important for FL pedagogy to be informed by phonetic research. This study examined the role of FL learners’ previous linguistic experience in the processing of a contrast absent in the L1. The FLs under investigation are Japanese and Italian, which both use …
Can you t[æ]ll I’m from M[æ]lbourne
This study gives an overview of the merger of the dress and trap vowels before laterals, which occurs for some speakers of Australian English in the state of Victoria (in the south-east of the country), as well as in some other varieties of English. Research on this phenomenon in Australian English has been preliminary to date, but has uncovered some general tendencies in distribution, as well as possible motivators for actuation and spread of th…
Language contact and functional expansion in Tetun Dili
Tetun Dili, an Austronesian language spoken in East Timor, was until 1999 primarily an oral language of intercultural communication. Since the 1999 vote on independence from Indonesia, Tetun Dili has become the dominant language of public life, including the government, education and the media, as well as becoming an official language alongside Portuguese, a former colonial language. The rapidly evolving press register of Tetun shows significant …
Probability of Heritage Language Use at a Supportive Early Childhood Setting in Australia
Despite well-established research that documents the intellectual, linguistic, sociocultural and familiar benefits of early childhood bilingualism, Australia’s provision of heritage language (HL) support in early childhood (EC) settings is fairly minimal, resulting in little to no access to the HL outside of the home. We report on language data from a long day care preschool that has an open bilingual policy, where two languages (HL and English) …
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