Carmel O’shannessy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3530917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmel O’shannessy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmel |
| FAMILY NAME | O’shannessy |
| SIGNATURE | O’SHANNESSY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
English language attitudes in Australia
This study investigates contemporary Australian attitudes toward a range of L1 and L2 English accents, building on prior research showing that standardised varieties are typically rated higher on status traits and non-standardised varieties are rated higher on solidarity. 138 Australian-born listeners rated audio stimuli from 12 male speakers representing 12 English L1 and L2 accents on seven attributes related to status, solidarity, and clarity.…
Developing the Little Kids’ Word List app, a fair assessment tool of communicative development for young Aboriginal children in multilingual families in Central Australia
Assessment of the language development of Aboriginal children in Central Australia is a major challenge, because little is known about the children’s language repertoires and paths of development. The Central Australian language context presents a specific challenge for describing what young children are learning and for developing an appropriate vocabulary assessment tool. National Indigenous policies now have a focus on young children’s develop…
Transitivity Marking in Light Warlpiri, an Australian Mixed Language
Light Warlpiri is a newly emerged Australian mixed language that systematically combines nominal structure from Warlpiri (Australian, Pama-Nyungan) with verbal structure from Kriol (an English-lexified Creole) and English, with additional innovations in the verbal auxiliary system. Lexical items are drawn from both Warlpiri and the two English-lexified sources, Kriol and English. The Light Warlpiri verb system is interesting because of questions …
Reflexive and Reciprocal Encoding in the Australian Mixed Language, Light Warlpiri
Mixed languages combine significant amounts of grammatical and lexical material from more than one source language in systematic ways. The Australian mixed language, Light Warlpiri, combines nominal morphology from Warlpiri with verbal morphology from Kriol (an English-lexified Creole) and English, with innovations. The source languages of Light Warlpiri differ in how they encode reflexives and reciprocals-Warlpiri uses an auxiliary clitic for bo…
Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective
This volume is the first collection of research dedicated to the effects of recent language contact processes on Australian languages
Multilingual children increase language differentiation by indexing communities of practice
An area in need of study in child language acquisition is that of complex multilingual contexts in which there is little language separation by interlocutor or domain. Little is known about how multilingual children use language to construct their identities in each language or in both languages. Identity construction in monolingual contexts has been examined closely using a community of practice model, with case studies of adolescents and teenag…
The role of multiple sources in the formation of an innovative auxiliary category in Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language
Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language combining Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan) with varieties of English and/or Kriol that has emerged within approximately the last thirty-five years, shows radical restructuring of the verbal auxiliary system, including modal categories that differ from those in the source languages. The structure of Light Warlpiri overall is that of a mixed language, in that most verbs and some verbal morphology are drawn fro…
Typological constraints on verb integration in two Australian mixed languages1,2
Gurindji Kriol and Light Warlpiri are two mixed languages spoken in northern Australia by Gurindji and Warlpiri people, respectively. Both languages are the outcome of the fusion of a contact variety of English (Kriol/Aboriginal English) with a traditional Australian Aboriginal language (Gurindji or Warlpiri). The end result is two languages which show remarkable structural similarity. In both mixed languages, pronouns, TMA auxiliaries and word o…
The role of multiple sources in the formation of an innovative auxiliary category in Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language
Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language combining Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan) with varieties of English and/or Kriol that has emerged within approximately the last thirty-five years, shows radical restructuring of the verbal auxiliary system, including modal categories that differ from those in the source languages. The structure of Light Warlpiri overall is that of a mixed language, in that most verbs and some verbal morphology are drawn fro…
Typological constraints on verb integration in two Australian mixed languages1,2
Gurindji Kriol and Light Warlpiri are two mixed languages spoken in northern Australia by Gurindji and Warlpiri people, respectively. Both languages are the outcome of the fusion of a contact variety of English (Kriol/Aboriginal English) with a traditional Australian Aboriginal language (Gurindji or Warlpiri). The end result is two languages which show remarkable structural similarity. In both mixed languages, pronouns, TMA auxiliaries and word o…
Reflexive and Reciprocal Encoding in the Australian Mixed Language, Light Warlpiri
Mixed languages combine significant amounts of grammatical and lexical material from more than one source language in systematic ways. The Australian mixed language, Light Warlpiri, combines nominal morphology from Warlpiri with verbal morphology from Kriol (an English-lexified Creole) and English, with innovations. The source languages of Light Warlpiri differ in how they encode reflexives and reciprocals-Warlpiri uses an auxiliary clitic for bo…
Typological constraints on verb integration in two Australian mixed languages1,2
Gurindji Kriol and Light Warlpiri are two mixed languages spoken in northern Australia by Gurindji and Warlpiri people, respectively. Both languages are the outcome of the fusion of a contact variety of English (Kriol/Aboriginal English) with a traditional Australian Aboriginal language (Gurindji or Warlpiri). The end result is two languages which show remarkable structural similarity. In both mixed languages, pronouns, TMA auxiliaries and word o…
The role of multiple sources in the formation of an innovative auxiliary category in Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language
Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language combining Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan) with varieties of English and/or Kriol that has emerged within approximately the last thirty-five years, shows radical restructuring of the verbal auxiliary system, including modal categories that differ from those in the source languages. The structure of Light Warlpiri overall is that of a mixed language, in that most verbs and some verbal morphology are drawn fro…
Multilingual children increase language differentiation by indexing communities of practice
An area in need of study in child language acquisition is that of complex multilingual contexts in which there is little language separation by interlocutor or domain. Little is known about how multilingual children use language to construct their identities in each language or in both languages. Identity construction in monolingual contexts has been examined closely using a community of practice model, with case studies of adolescents and teenag…
Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective
This volume is the first collection of research dedicated to the effects of recent language contact processes on Australian languages
Reflexive and Reciprocal Encoding in the Australian Mixed Language, Light Warlpiri
Mixed languages combine significant amounts of grammatical and lexical material from more than one source language in systematic ways. The Australian mixed language, Light Warlpiri, combines nominal morphology from Warlpiri with verbal morphology from Kriol (an English-lexified Creole) and English, with innovations. The source languages of Light Warlpiri differ in how they encode reflexives and reciprocals-Warlpiri uses an auxiliary clitic for bo…
Transitivity Marking in Light Warlpiri, an Australian Mixed Language
Light Warlpiri is a newly emerged Australian mixed language that systematically combines nominal structure from Warlpiri (Australian, Pama-Nyungan) with verbal structure from Kriol (an English-lexified Creole) and English, with additional innovations in the verbal auxiliary system. Lexical items are drawn from both Warlpiri and the two English-lexified sources, Kriol and English. The Light Warlpiri verb system is interesting because of questions …
Developing the Little Kids’ Word List app, a fair assessment tool of communicative development for young Aboriginal children in multilingual families in Central Australia
Assessment of the language development of Aboriginal children in Central Australia is a major challenge, because little is known about the children’s language repertoires and paths of development. The Central Australian language context presents a specific challenge for describing what young children are learning and for developing an appropriate vocabulary assessment tool. National Indigenous policies now have a focus on young children’s develop…
English language attitudes in Australia
This study investigates contemporary Australian attitudes toward a range of L1 and L2 English accents, building on prior research showing that standardised varieties are typically rated higher on status traits and non-standardised varieties are rated higher on solidarity. 138 Australian-born listeners rated audio stimuli from 12 male speakers representing 12 English L1 and L2 accents on seven attributes related to status, solidarity, and clarity.…
Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works)