Glenys Collard
Biographic Data
| ID | 241167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenys Collard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenys |
| FAMILY NAME | Collard |
| SIGNATURE | COLLARD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5622-9240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific
This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. It is split into two parts, with Part 1 dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part 2 looking at varieties in Asia, and Australia and the Pacific. There are introductory chapters dealing with the colonial transportation of English overseas, and the generic types of English which resulted, often labelled Wo…
We was goin’ kangaroo shooting”: Was / were variation in Australian Aboriginal English
This paper examines was / were variation in a corpus of naturalistic Australian Aboriginal English (AE), a post-invasion contact-based variety spoken by First Nations people in Australia. While a tendency towards was levelling was attested in earlier descriptions of AE, quantitative sociolinguistic studies are yet to be offered. We draw on the speech of 31 First Nations girls aged 12–17 from across Western Australia and the Northern Territory, co…
Freakin’ Swimming and Everythink: School Practices and Variable (ING) in an Australian Indigenous Boarding School
This original sociolinguistic ethnographic study examines social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English, an indigenized variety of English spoken by First Nations people in Australia. Based on 42 hours of audio recordings and ethnographic data with 31 girls at a predominantly First Nations boarding school in the outskirts of Perth, Western Australia, we find higher rates but similar linguistic conditioning of [ɪn] compared to other E…
The Yarning Corpus: Aboriginal English in Southwest Western Australia
The Yarning Corpus consists of acrolectal Aboriginal English data gathered in metropolitan Perth, WA. It features video-recorded interactions with 58 Aboriginal English speakers born between 1931 and 2009. Using this corpus, we sought to uncover variation and change in Aboriginal English in Nyungar Country, Southwest WA. We designed a cross-cultural research model that allowed us to document sociolinguistic aspects of Aboriginal English “yarning”…
Quotation in earlier and contemporary Australian Aboriginal English
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-per…
Indigenizing say in Australian Aboriginal English
The quotative system – lexical and morphosyntactic strategies for the direct reporting of speech and thought – has undergone a major transformation in mainstream World Englishes. Diachronic studies of quotation in Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand English have all documented the same trends: a relatively stable system, using a small number of quotative variants, becomes more varied and complex, with a decline in the frequency of canon…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives
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Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives
Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is an enregistered contact-based variety spoken by 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This paper offers an overview of some of the features that characterise AAE as recorded in our corpus of naturally occurring interactions in Nyungar country, Southwest Western Australia. Led by Nyungar researcher Glenys Collard, our fieldwork rests on three pillars: (1) the data originate from group recording…
Working together: Sociolinguistic research in urban Aboriginal Australia
Variationist sociolinguists have now collectively spent decades gathering vernacular language data, enriching linguistic theory through detailed empirical analysis. What the field is yet to offer are reflective accounts of how partnership with communities and participatory research models can begin to decolonise the field. In this paper we reflect on the Indigenous-led fieldwork that allowed us to document Australian Aboriginal English in urban N…
Aboriginal English and Responsive Pedagogy in Australian Education
Aboriginal English1, the language many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students bring to the classroom, represents the introduction of significant change into the English language. It is the argument of this paper that the linguistic, social and cultural facts associated with the distinctiveness of Aboriginal English need to be taken into account in the English language education of both Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous …
Deadly Ways to Learn a yarn about some learning we did together
The title of Western Australia's Deadly Ways to Learn project, an action research project aimed at facilitating and enhancing the teaching and learning of Australian Aboriginal students, was inspired by Aboriginal English in which 'deadly' means 'really good'. Aboriginal English is the first dialect of most Indigenous Australians and differs in fundamental and consistent ways from Standard Australian English which is the language of instruction i…
Attitudes of Primary School Australian Aboriginal Children to their Linguistic Codes
This study examined the attitudes of 114 Nyungar Aboriginal school children toward Aboriginal English (AE) and Standard Australian English (SAE), and the attitudes they attributed to their teachers and peers. Students were generally positive about using AE at home and in the playground but negative about using SAE in those contexts. Students did not feel positive about using either AE or SAE in the classroom. Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory is us…
Working together: Sociolinguistic research in urban Aboriginal Australia
Variationist sociolinguists have now collectively spent decades gathering vernacular language data, enriching linguistic theory through detailed empirical analysis. What the field is yet to offer are reflective accounts of how partnership with communities and participatory research models can begin to decolonise the field. In this paper we reflect on the Indigenous-led fieldwork that allowed us to document Australian Aboriginal English in urban N…
Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives
Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is an enregistered contact-based variety spoken by 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This paper offers an overview of some of the features that characterise AAE as recorded in our corpus of naturally occurring interactions in Nyungar country, Southwest Western Australia. Led by Nyungar researcher Glenys Collard, our fieldwork rests on three pillars: (1) the data originate from group recording…
The Yarning Corpus: Aboriginal English in Southwest Western Australia
The Yarning Corpus consists of acrolectal Aboriginal English data gathered in metropolitan Perth, WA. It features video-recorded interactions with 58 Aboriginal English speakers born between 1931 and 2009. Using this corpus, we sought to uncover variation and change in Aboriginal English in Nyungar Country, Southwest WA. We designed a cross-cultural research model that allowed us to document sociolinguistic aspects of Aboriginal English “yarning”…
Freakin’ Swimming and Everythink: School Practices and Variable (ING) in an Australian Indigenous Boarding School
This original sociolinguistic ethnographic study examines social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English, an indigenized variety of English spoken by First Nations people in Australia. Based on 42 hours of audio recordings and ethnographic data with 31 girls at a predominantly First Nations boarding school in the outskirts of Perth, Western Australia, we find higher rates but similar linguistic conditioning of [ɪn] compared to other E…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Deadly Ways to Learn a yarn about some learning we did together
The title of Western Australia's Deadly Ways to Learn project, an action research project aimed at facilitating and enhancing the teaching and learning of Australian Aboriginal students, was inspired by Aboriginal English in which 'deadly' means 'really good'. Aboriginal English is the first dialect of most Indigenous Australians and differs in fundamental and consistent ways from Standard Australian English which is the language of instruction i…
Attitudes of Primary School Australian Aboriginal Children to their Linguistic Codes
This study examined the attitudes of 114 Nyungar Aboriginal school children toward Aboriginal English (AE) and Standard Australian English (SAE), and the attitudes they attributed to their teachers and peers. Students were generally positive about using AE at home and in the playground but negative about using SAE in those contexts. Students did not feel positive about using either AE or SAE in the classroom. Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory is us…
Quotation in earlier and contemporary Australian Aboriginal English
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-per…
Indigenizing say in Australian Aboriginal English
The quotative system – lexical and morphosyntactic strategies for the direct reporting of speech and thought – has undergone a major transformation in mainstream World Englishes. Diachronic studies of quotation in Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand English have all documented the same trends: a relatively stable system, using a small number of quotative variants, becomes more varied and complex, with a decline in the frequency of canon…
Attitudes of Primary School Australian Aboriginal Children to their Linguistic Codes
This study examined the attitudes of 114 Nyungar Aboriginal school children toward Aboriginal English (AE) and Standard Australian English (SAE), and the attitudes they attributed to their teachers and peers. Students were generally positive about using AE at home and in the playground but negative about using SAE in those contexts. Students did not feel positive about using either AE or SAE in the classroom. Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory is us…
Deadly Ways to Learn a yarn about some learning we did together
The title of Western Australia's Deadly Ways to Learn project, an action research project aimed at facilitating and enhancing the teaching and learning of Australian Aboriginal students, was inspired by Aboriginal English in which 'deadly' means 'really good'. Aboriginal English is the first dialect of most Indigenous Australians and differs in fundamental and consistent ways from Standard Australian English which is the language of instruction i…
Aboriginal English and Responsive Pedagogy in Australian Education
Aboriginal English1, the language many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students bring to the classroom, represents the introduction of significant change into the English language. It is the argument of this paper that the linguistic, social and cultural facts associated with the distinctiveness of Aboriginal English need to be taken into account in the English language education of both Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous …
Indigenizing say in Australian Aboriginal English
The quotative system – lexical and morphosyntactic strategies for the direct reporting of speech and thought – has undergone a major transformation in mainstream World Englishes. Diachronic studies of quotation in Australian, British, Canadian and New Zealand English have all documented the same trends: a relatively stable system, using a small number of quotative variants, becomes more varied and complex, with a decline in the frequency of canon…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Australian Aboriginal English: Linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives
Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is an enregistered contact-based variety spoken by 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This paper offers an overview of some of the features that characterise AAE as recorded in our corpus of naturally occurring interactions in Nyungar country, Southwest Western Australia. Led by Nyungar researcher Glenys Collard, our fieldwork rests on three pillars: (1) the data originate from group recording…
Working together: Sociolinguistic research in urban Aboriginal Australia
Variationist sociolinguists have now collectively spent decades gathering vernacular language data, enriching linguistic theory through detailed empirical analysis. What the field is yet to offer are reflective accounts of how partnership with communities and participatory research models can begin to decolonise the field. In this paper we reflect on the Indigenous-led fieldwork that allowed us to document Australian Aboriginal English in urban N…
Quotation in earlier and contemporary Australian Aboriginal English
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-per…
The Yarning Corpus: Aboriginal English in Southwest Western Australia
The Yarning Corpus consists of acrolectal Aboriginal English data gathered in metropolitan Perth, WA. It features video-recorded interactions with 58 Aboriginal English speakers born between 1931 and 2009. Using this corpus, we sought to uncover variation and change in Aboriginal English in Nyungar Country, Southwest WA. We designed a cross-cultural research model that allowed us to document sociolinguistic aspects of Aboriginal English “yarning”…
The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific
This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. It is split into two parts, with Part 1 dedicated to varieties of English across Africa, and Part 2 looking at varieties in Asia, and Australia and the Pacific. There are introductory chapters dealing with the colonial transportation of English overseas, and the generic types of English which resulted, often labelled Wo…
We was goin’ kangaroo shooting”: Was / were variation in Australian Aboriginal English
This paper examines was / were variation in a corpus of naturalistic Australian Aboriginal English (AE), a post-invasion contact-based variety spoken by First Nations people in Australia. While a tendency towards was levelling was attested in earlier descriptions of AE, quantitative sociolinguistic studies are yet to be offered. We draw on the speech of 31 First Nations girls aged 12–17 from across Western Australia and the Northern Territory, co…
Freakin’ Swimming and Everythink: School Practices and Variable (ING) in an Australian Indigenous Boarding School
This original sociolinguistic ethnographic study examines social practices and (ING) variation in Aboriginal English, an indigenized variety of English spoken by First Nations people in Australia. Based on 42 hours of audio recordings and ethnographic data with 31 girls at a predominantly First Nations boarding school in the outskirts of Perth, Western Australia, we find higher rates but similar linguistic conditioning of [ɪn] compared to other E…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Australian English (4 works) · History (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)