Donna Starks
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 118732 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Donna Starks |
| NOMBRES | Donna |
| APELLIDO | Starks |
| FIRMA | STARKS D |
| AFILIACIONES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1476-1209 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The effects of community contact on L1 maintenance
This paper explores the effects of social networks on the reported language proficiency of three groups of New Zealand Japanese children. Drawing on a quantitative analysis of data collected from questionnaire-based interviews, this study reveals that children of sojourner families and children of immigrant families of mixed and non-mixed backgrounds, each with their differing levels of reported Japanese proficiency, benefit from different types …
Where are they from? Pre-service educators’ views on place and professional identity
Australian pre-service teachers (PSTs) increasingly find themselves in classrooms where students have a diversity of backgrounds, which can lead to questions about the PST’s own place identity and how much of this identity they should disclose to students. This article explores how seven PSTs engage with their own sense of place identity when responding to the prompt: “What do you say when people ask you where you are from?” The findings bring to…
“Where are you from?” Adolescent formulations of place identity
In globalized times, high mobility has complicated the meanings of allegiance to place, creating a need for a critical awareness of place identity. Although place identity has made important contributions to the social sciences, there is little empirical research on how it can be operationalized, or critically interrogated. In response to this need, we analyzed ways that Australian secondary school students responded to the question, “If someone …
The sacred and the banal
This paper sheds light on Fishmanian understandings of domains as clusters of people, aural behaviours, activities and artefacts through the exploration of sacred and banal domains within the Grand Mosque of Mecca, a religious site that serves as a pilgrimage for Muslims of different nationalities and language backgrounds. The overall patterns reveal varied inter-related clusters of people, languages, sound, artefacts and activities, adding insig…
Language in public space and language policies in Hanoi Old Quarter, Vietnam
Reflections of Vietnamese English Language Educators on Their Writer Identities in English and Vietnamese
In today’s globalised world, options have increased for how people write. Individuals who write in an additional language draw on their varied language learning experiences, their study and travel abroad, as well as their interactions with colleagues and friends in the institutions in which they work. While some features of texts produced in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts may initially appear to be simple appropriations of English a…
An exploration of stasis and change
This paper focuses on modes of stabilities and mobilities within a park in central Hanoi where the past and present intersect as tourists and locals visit and interact with each other as well as with the visual and aural resources. We document the transformable nature of what is represented in space and time by considering how the material artefacts, the written resources inscribed in space, the aural resources created by various actors and their…
Medium and domains in the linguistic landscapes of the Grand Mosque in Mecca
This paper explores the linguistic landscape (LL) of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and shows how this religious site contains within it different domains, each with their own LL and preferred mediums of display. We illustrate this by exploring the LL of five domains within the mosque: Holiness, Education, Workplace, Local Governance and the Public Sphere. We show how Arabic is omnipresent across the domains. In the Holiness domain, we can sense both …
“Have You Noticed any Changes upon your Return”? Vietnamese Alumni After Their Australian University Experiences
Many individuals who study abroad return to their home country with the hope of applying new learnings. This paper reports on a videotaped group discussion with three such returnees, in-service English language educators from Vietnam. It considers ways that these educators feel that they have changed through their study abroad experiences and how these changes are accepted and contested after their return to Vietnam by their students, colleagues …
Young people's perspectives on the mobility of Australian English accents
This paper draws on lines of sociolinguistic theory that have arisen in response to globalisation and current thinking about mobilities in the social sciences. Using the constructs of space, scale and centre‐periphery, we set out to analyse 564 Australian high school students’ responses to a questionnaire item which asked: ‘If you moved to another country, how important would it be for you to keep your Australian accent?’ Our exploration of the s…
Enabling change in EFL teachers’ ideologies about grammar and grammar teaching through alternative pedagogies
What their friends say about the way they talk
Adolescence is a time in young people's lives when identities are being constructed and what their friends say is particularly important. The teenage years are a critical period in terms of attitudes to language, yet there have been relatively few studies of student metalanguage and, to our knowledge, no studies which have considered age-graded differences in adolescence. This paper focuses on comments from Australian students in their initial an…
The meta-pragmatic discourses of Australian high school students on language, migration and belonging
Recent years have seen a backlash against multiculturalism in many Western countries and increasing calls to restrict migration and citizenship rights to those who can pass language tests. This paper explores the sentiment of high school students who were born and raised in Australia towards issues of language and migration, including the need for migrants to speak English and use Australian dialect and accent. Results show that Australian youth …
The origin of yes–no question particles in the Niuean language
This paper considers data from Niuean, a Polynesian language with VSO word order and an extensive range of grammatical particles. We focus on three question particles, nakai, ka and kia , examining their possible historical origins. In related languages the preferred means of forming a yes–no question is by intonation alone, while in the Polynesian languages that have yes–no question particles, the forms are lexically distinct from those found in…
Is the Cultural Cringe Alive and Kicking? Adolescent Mythscapes of Australian English in Queensland and Victoria
Although there is a growing literature on grammatical, lexical and phonological aspects of Australian English, there are comparatively few studies of attitudes towards this variety of English. What literature there is tends to be either anecdotal or based on media language or on findings from experimental, subjective reaction tests where samples of speech are matched against those produced by speakers of other varieties of English. This study aim…
Finding one's own linguistic space
The use of the Afrikaans and English in South Africa is well documented in the literature, but little is known about the ideologies attached to these languages in diasporic contexts. In light of the large scale immigration of South Africans into English-speaking countries, this paper aims to explore the dynamics of identity formation of 17 Afrikaans-speaking South African families with respect to both Afrikaans and the South African English accen…
Nicknames in Australian Secondary Schools
Although it is widely known that language practices can significantly affect adolescent self-image, research studies on adolescent naming practices are surprisingly scarce. The only study to date on nicknames in Australia was undertaken by Chevalier (2006). Her study provides a comprehensive analysis of morphological and semantic features of names but makes no reference to adolescent language practices and their role in society. Our exploration o…
The role of fathers in language maintenance and language attrition
The father's role in children's L1 maintenance and L2 learning is a relatively unexplored area. This study considers the L1 and L2 proficiency of 30 Korean–English late bilinguals who immigrated to New Zealand during their adolescence and how their L1 and L2 proficiency is influenced by the language use of family members. Data were collected through a questionnaire, a vocabulary test and a story-retelling task, and analysed in terms of language u…
Rethinking methodology
The self-report questionnaire has served as the primary tool for investigating language maintenance in hundreds of communities over the past 40 years. More recently, it has been employed to investigate language shift amongst first-generation communities where one of the most useful indicators of generational change is the reported pattern of language use. We argue that an alternative effective means to obtain this type of data is through the ‘lan…
Being a Niuean or Being Niue? An Investigation into the Use of Identity Labels
Identity labels are used by in-group and out-group members to define themselves both referentially and socially. This article explores the use of identity labels in interview data from the Pasifika Languages of Manukau Project, a project that examined the language maintenance and use of Samoan, Tongan, Cook Island, and Niuean peoples in Auckland, New Zealand. Fourteen 1 hour interviews were analysed and 3,162 instances of the 2 terms Niuean and N…
Agreement patterns in existential constructions in the New Zealand Niuean community1
This paper examines a small group of Niuean New Zealanders typical of their community; all have English as their primary language, and most only a passive knowledge of the Niuean language. The speakers are members of a lower socio-economic community, yet they lack most of the grammatical variation associated with similar communities which have English as a first language. The paper considers agreement in there existential constructions in the spo…
The role of emotions in L1 attrition
This article explores the role of emotions in L1 attrition and L2 acquisition in a group of 30 Korean-English L1-dominant late bilinguals in New Zealand. The relationship between L1/L2 proficiency measures and emotion-related language choice (ERLC) is investigated using three measurement tools: a story-retelling task, a questionnaire, and a follow-up interview. The findings point to a shift from L1 to L2 and show this to be related to an increase…
National and ethnic identity markers
The New Zealand (NZ) short front vowels are often considered as a defining feature of New Zealand English (NZE), yet research which has considered data from both the Pakeha (NZ European) and the NZ Maori communities has noted slightly different patterns in the realisations of the vowel in the KIT lexical set in the respective communities (Bell 1997a, b; Warren and Bauer 2004). This paper compares the short front vowel series of NZ Maori students …
Whose discourse particles? New Zealand eh in the Niuean migrant community
Niuean English
This paper provides an initial analysis into the phonetic and phonological features of Niuean English as spoken in the New Zealand Niuean community. The paper highlights similarities and differences between New Zealand English and Niuean English, points to subtle differences due to potential substratal influences, and considers the effects of recent changes in New Zealand English on the English of Niuean speakers in New Zealand
Individual Variation in the Acquisition of Postvocalic /R
Research Article| May 01 2002 INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN THE ACQUISITION OF POSTVOCALIC /r/: DAY CARE AND SIBLING ORDER AS POTENTIAL VARIABLES DONNA STARKS; DONNA STARKS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google DONN BAYARD DONN BAYARD Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2002) 77 (2): 184–194. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-77-2-184 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search …
A note on using sociolingustic methods to study non‐native attitudes towards English
A number of studies have been undertaken to determine what variety of English learners of English want as a learner goal (Benson, 1991; Shaw, 1983; Kachru, 1976; Sahgal, 1991; Starks and Paltridge, 1994). This paper describes the major types of studies used to determine language attitudes of native and non‐native speakers and highlights a number of differences in their methodologies. The paper then shows how one of the techniques used in sociolin…
Enabling change in EFL teachers’ ideologies about grammar and grammar teaching through alternative pedagogies
Is the Cultural Cringe Alive and Kicking? Adolescent Mythscapes of Australian English in Queensland and Victoria
Although there is a growing literature on grammatical, lexical and phonological aspects of Australian English, there are comparatively few studies of attitudes towards this variety of English. What literature there is tends to be either anecdotal or based on media language or on findings from experimental, subjective reaction tests where samples of speech are matched against those produced by speakers of other varieties of English. This study aim…
Nicknames in Australian Secondary Schools
Although it is widely known that language practices can significantly affect adolescent self-image, research studies on adolescent naming practices are surprisingly scarce. The only study to date on nicknames in Australia was undertaken by Chevalier (2006). Her study provides a comprehensive analysis of morphological and semantic features of names but makes no reference to adolescent language practices and their role in society. Our exploration o…
The sacred and the banal
This paper sheds light on Fishmanian understandings of domains as clusters of people, aural behaviours, activities and artefacts through the exploration of sacred and banal domains within the Grand Mosque of Mecca, a religious site that serves as a pilgrimage for Muslims of different nationalities and language backgrounds. The overall patterns reveal varied inter-related clusters of people, languages, sound, artefacts and activities, adding insig…
An exploration of stasis and change
This paper focuses on modes of stabilities and mobilities within a park in central Hanoi where the past and present intersect as tourists and locals visit and interact with each other as well as with the visual and aural resources. We document the transformable nature of what is represented in space and time by considering how the material artefacts, the written resources inscribed in space, the aural resources created by various actors and their…
Medium and domains in the linguistic landscapes of the Grand Mosque in Mecca
This paper explores the linguistic landscape (LL) of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and shows how this religious site contains within it different domains, each with their own LL and preferred mediums of display. We illustrate this by exploring the LL of five domains within the mosque: Holiness, Education, Workplace, Local Governance and the Public Sphere. We show how Arabic is omnipresent across the domains. In the Holiness domain, we can sense both …
Whose discourse particles? New Zealand eh in the Niuean migrant community
Reading ‘TH
Language in public space and language policies in Hanoi Old Quarter, Vietnam
Agreement patterns in existential constructions in the New Zealand Niuean community1
This paper examines a small group of Niuean New Zealanders typical of their community; all have English as their primary language, and most only a passive knowledge of the Niuean language. The speakers are members of a lower socio-economic community, yet they lack most of the grammatical variation associated with similar communities which have English as a first language. The paper considers agreement in there existential constructions in the spo…
National and ethnic identity markers
The New Zealand (NZ) short front vowels are often considered as a defining feature of New Zealand English (NZE), yet research which has considered data from both the Pakeha (NZ European) and the NZ Maori communities has noted slightly different patterns in the realisations of the vowel in the KIT lexical set in the respective communities (Bell 1997a, b; Warren and Bauer 2004). This paper compares the short front vowel series of NZ Maori students …
Niuean English
This paper provides an initial analysis into the phonetic and phonological features of Niuean English as spoken in the New Zealand Niuean community. The paper highlights similarities and differences between New Zealand English and Niuean English, points to subtle differences due to potential substratal influences, and considers the effects of recent changes in New Zealand English on the English of Niuean speakers in New Zealand
Language Practices, Preferences and Policies
Although the majority of New Zealanders speak English, and only English, the 1987 Maori Language Act and immigration from both Asia and the Pacific have had a significant impact on New Zealand society. Because increasing numbers of children are entering school with limited English language ability, students are arguably the group with the most exposure to New Zealand's changing social and linguistic demography. Yet little is known about how these…
Distinct, but not too distinct
This paper shows how a rapid taped survey is used to collect language samples from four New Zealand speech communities. It details the methodology in the study, and presents an analysis of one variable, (s) fronting. This variable is of special interest because, although phoneticians have noted that English speakers sometimes produce this sound in different ways (MacKay 1987: 98; Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996), the sociolinguistic literature does …
Young people's perspectives on the mobility of Australian English accents
This paper draws on lines of sociolinguistic theory that have arisen in response to globalisation and current thinking about mobilities in the social sciences. Using the constructs of space, scale and centre‐periphery, we set out to analyse 564 Australian high school students’ responses to a questionnaire item which asked: ‘If you moved to another country, how important would it be for you to keep your Australian accent?’ Our exploration of the s…
The meta-pragmatic discourses of Australian high school students on language, migration and belonging
Recent years have seen a backlash against multiculturalism in many Western countries and increasing calls to restrict migration and citizenship rights to those who can pass language tests. This paper explores the sentiment of high school students who were born and raised in Australia towards issues of language and migration, including the need for migrants to speak English and use Australian dialect and accent. Results show that Australian youth …
The Effects of Self-confidence in Bilingual Abilities on Language Use
This paper considers speakers' differing degrees of self-confidence in their bilingual abilities and their effects on reported language use and observed patterns of language choice. One hundred and twenty individuals fromNewZealand's four largest Pasifika communities – Samoan, Cook Islands, Tongan and Niuean – reported on their selfconfidence in both their community language (CL) and English, and on the basis of these responses, five speaker type…
Subordinate Clauses in Woods Cree
Planned vs Unplanned Discourse
Most research on Algonquian languages, of which Cree is a typical example, is based on collections of narrative texts (Wolfart 1973; Dahlstrom 1986; James 1986). Although there is nothing intrinsically wrong with this approach, the use of one particular type of database in such an extensive amount of research lends itself to a genre-biased description of the language. In oral cultures, many narrative texts are typically preplanned (Chafe 1985) an…
Subordinate Clauses in Woods Cree
A note on using sociolingustic methods to study non‐native attitudes towards English
A number of studies have been undertaken to determine what variety of English learners of English want as a learner goal (Benson, 1991; Shaw, 1983; Kachru, 1976; Sahgal, 1991; Starks and Paltridge, 1994). This paper describes the major types of studies used to determine language attitudes of native and non‐native speakers and highlights a number of differences in their methodologies. The paper then shows how one of the techniques used in sociolin…
Distinct, but not too distinct
This paper shows how a rapid taped survey is used to collect language samples from four New Zealand speech communities. It details the methodology in the study, and presents an analysis of one variable, (s) fronting. This variable is of special interest because, although phoneticians have noted that English speakers sometimes produce this sound in different ways (MacKay 1987: 98; Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996), the sociolinguistic literature does …
Linguists and Language Maintenance
Linguists and Language Maintenance:Pasifika Languages in Manukau, New Zealand1 Melenaite Taumoefolau, Donna Starks, Karen Davis, and Allan Bell Abstract Manukau City is the most language-rich area in New Zealand, yet it has to date not been the subject of any detailed sociolinguistic study. This paper reports on pilot work for a major project on the languages of Manukau, and addresses the question of whether linguists can contribute to language m…
Individual Variation in the Acquisition of Postvocalic /R
Research Article| May 01 2002 INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN THE ACQUISITION OF POSTVOCALIC /r/: DAY CARE AND SIBLING ORDER AS POTENTIAL VARIABLES DONNA STARKS; DONNA STARKS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google DONN BAYARD DONN BAYARD Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2002) 77 (2): 184–194. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-77-2-184 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search …
The Effects of Self-confidence in Bilingual Abilities on Language Use
This paper considers speakers' differing degrees of self-confidence in their bilingual abilities and their effects on reported language use and observed patterns of language choice. One hundred and twenty individuals fromNewZealand's four largest Pasifika communities – Samoan, Cook Islands, Tongan and Niuean – reported on their selfconfidence in both their community language (CL) and English, and on the basis of these responses, five speaker type…
Woods Cree /ð
ð/ appears in only a handful of the world’s languages (Maddieson 1984 and Ruhlen 1975). In most of these, /ð/ is classified as an obstruent; however, in Woods Cree this segment exhibits a range of characteristics typical of a sonorant. This paper provides a detailed account of the evidence for /ð/’s status in Woods Cree based on its phonetic realizations, the structure of the phonological inventory, voicing patterns, register variation, and phone…
The Changing Roles of Language and Identity in the New Zealand Niuean Community
This paper describes the Niuean community and the evolving roles of Niuean language and identity in New Zealand, where the majority of Niueans now reside. As part of the Pasifika Languages of Manukau Project (PLMP), 30 New Zealand Niueans participated in detailed interviews on issues relating to language main-tenance. This paper considers their responses both quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative data provide a basis for discussions …
Language Practices, Preferences and Policies
Although the majority of New Zealanders speak English, and only English, the 1987 Maori Language Act and immigration from both Asia and the Pacific have had a significant impact on New Zealand society. Because increasing numbers of children are entering school with limited English language ability, students are arguably the group with the most exposure to New Zealand's changing social and linguistic demography. Yet little is known about how these…
Reading ‘TH
Whose discourse particles? New Zealand eh in the Niuean migrant community
Niuean English
This paper provides an initial analysis into the phonetic and phonological features of Niuean English as spoken in the New Zealand Niuean community. The paper highlights similarities and differences between New Zealand English and Niuean English, points to subtle differences due to potential substratal influences, and considers the effects of recent changes in New Zealand English on the English of Niuean speakers in New Zealand
The role of emotions in L1 attrition
This article explores the role of emotions in L1 attrition and L2 acquisition in a group of 30 Korean-English L1-dominant late bilinguals in New Zealand. The relationship between L1/L2 proficiency measures and emotion-related language choice (ERLC) is investigated using three measurement tools: a story-retelling task, a questionnaire, and a follow-up interview. The findings point to a shift from L1 to L2 and show this to be related to an increase…
National and ethnic identity markers
The New Zealand (NZ) short front vowels are often considered as a defining feature of New Zealand English (NZE), yet research which has considered data from both the Pakeha (NZ European) and the NZ Maori communities has noted slightly different patterns in the realisations of the vowel in the KIT lexical set in the respective communities (Bell 1997a, b; Warren and Bauer 2004). This paper compares the short front vowel series of NZ Maori students …
Agreement patterns in existential constructions in the New Zealand Niuean community1
This paper examines a small group of Niuean New Zealanders typical of their community; all have English as their primary language, and most only a passive knowledge of the Niuean language. The speakers are members of a lower socio-economic community, yet they lack most of the grammatical variation associated with similar communities which have English as a first language. The paper considers agreement in there existential constructions in the spo…
The role of fathers in language maintenance and language attrition
The father's role in children's L1 maintenance and L2 learning is a relatively unexplored area. This study considers the L1 and L2 proficiency of 30 Korean–English late bilinguals who immigrated to New Zealand during their adolescence and how their L1 and L2 proficiency is influenced by the language use of family members. Data were collected through a questionnaire, a vocabulary test and a story-retelling task, and analysed in terms of language u…
Rethinking methodology
The self-report questionnaire has served as the primary tool for investigating language maintenance in hundreds of communities over the past 40 years. More recently, it has been employed to investigate language shift amongst first-generation communities where one of the most useful indicators of generational change is the reported pattern of language use. We argue that an alternative effective means to obtain this type of data is through the ‘lan…
Being a Niuean or Being Niue? An Investigation into the Use of Identity Labels
Identity labels are used by in-group and out-group members to define themselves both referentially and socially. This article explores the use of identity labels in interview data from the Pasifika Languages of Manukau Project, a project that examined the language maintenance and use of Samoan, Tongan, Cook Island, and Niuean peoples in Auckland, New Zealand. Fourteen 1 hour interviews were analysed and 3,162 instances of the 2 terms Niuean and N…
Finding one's own linguistic space
The use of the Afrikaans and English in South Africa is well documented in the literature, but little is known about the ideologies attached to these languages in diasporic contexts. In light of the large scale immigration of South Africans into English-speaking countries, this paper aims to explore the dynamics of identity formation of 17 Afrikaans-speaking South African families with respect to both Afrikaans and the South African English accen…
Nicknames in Australian Secondary Schools
Although it is widely known that language practices can significantly affect adolescent self-image, research studies on adolescent naming practices are surprisingly scarce. The only study to date on nicknames in Australia was undertaken by Chevalier (2006). Her study provides a comprehensive analysis of morphological and semantic features of names but makes no reference to adolescent language practices and their role in society. Our exploration o…
Is the Cultural Cringe Alive and Kicking? Adolescent Mythscapes of Australian English in Queensland and Victoria
Although there is a growing literature on grammatical, lexical and phonological aspects of Australian English, there are comparatively few studies of attitudes towards this variety of English. What literature there is tends to be either anecdotal or based on media language or on findings from experimental, subjective reaction tests where samples of speech are matched against those produced by speakers of other varieties of English. This study aim…
The origin of yes–no question particles in the Niuean language
This paper considers data from Niuean, a Polynesian language with VSO word order and an extensive range of grammatical particles. We focus on three question particles, nakai, ka and kia , examining their possible historical origins. In related languages the preferred means of forming a yes–no question is by intonation alone, while in the Polynesian languages that have yes–no question particles, the forms are lexically distinct from those found in…
What their friends say about the way they talk
Adolescence is a time in young people's lives when identities are being constructed and what their friends say is particularly important. The teenage years are a critical period in terms of attitudes to language, yet there have been relatively few studies of student metalanguage and, to our knowledge, no studies which have considered age-graded differences in adolescence. This paper focuses on comments from Australian students in their initial an…
The meta-pragmatic discourses of Australian high school students on language, migration and belonging
Recent years have seen a backlash against multiculturalism in many Western countries and increasing calls to restrict migration and citizenship rights to those who can pass language tests. This paper explores the sentiment of high school students who were born and raised in Australia towards issues of language and migration, including the need for migrants to speak English and use Australian dialect and accent. Results show that Australian youth …
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