Celeste Rodríguez Louro
Biographic Data
| ID | 792265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celeste Rodríguez Louro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Celeste Rodríguez |
| FAMILY NAME | Louro |
| SIGNATURE | LOURO C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9035-7473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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…
For the love of people: Introduction to the special issue in honour of Barbara Frances Kelly
Decolonizing the introductory linguistics curriculum
Introductory linguistics courses sometimes bypass the voices of diverse speakers, signers and writers: members of these groups do not often speak directly to students, and contributions from diverse language scholars are often overlooked. Many learning materials also present languages as unitary and unchanging by discussing single “standard” varieties without comment. This unintended bias results in students receiving an inaccurate and socially 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
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…
Another story: Be like across discourse types
Quotative be like has been described as “one of the most striking developments [in English]” ( Tagliamonte and D’Arcy 2004 : 493). Despite the vast research on quotatives and the upsurge of be like , the potential impact of discourse type on the grammar of quotation has rarely been assessed. Yet, discourse type has proved a relevant factor in linguistic variation (see Travis 2007 ; Buchstaller 2011 ; Travis and Lindstrom 2016 ). Drawing on vernac…
Indefinite past reference and the Present Perfect in Argentinian Spanish
The last decade has witnessed a flurry of research into variation in the use of the Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto (PPC) and the Pretérito Perfecto Simple (PPS). Researchers have posited a resemblance between the Argentinian (ARG) and the Mexican PPC in its encoding of durative past situations extending into the present. Close inspection of 30 hours of talk-in-interaction data with 68 speakers of Argentinian River Plate Spanish provides no support …
Outliers, impact, and rationalization in linguistic change
Quotative be like is a rapid global innovation, yet no evidence pinpoints when it arose, under what circumstances, or the consequences of its emergence. Using a data set spanning four cities and two hemispheres, we document systemic regularity across time and space. The results force us to confront three issues: the uniformitarian principle, the criterion of face-to-face contact in the diffusion of language change, and the nature of language as a…
Stories Down Under: Tense Variation at the Heart of Australian English Narratives
We examine tense variation in the complicating portion of unreflecting narratives of past personal experience in Australian English (AusE). Previous research has shown that the simple past tense (PT), historical present (HP) and historical present perfect (HPP) alternate innovatively in performed AusE narratives, enabling speakers to foreground pivotal events in the story. However, little is known about the sociolinguistic factors constraining te…
Introduction to the Issue on English in Australia: Variation and Change in Diverse Speech Communities
The studies in this special issue of Australian Journal of Linguistics explore linguistic variation across varieties of English spoken in Australia. First presented at the Conference of the Austral
Quotatives down under: Be like in cross-generational Australian English speech
The English quotative system (featuring forms such as say , think , zero, go , all and be like used in direct speech reproduction and thought) has been the subject of vigorous, in-depth sociolinguistic investigation, particularly in the past two decades. However, with the notable exception of Winter’s (2002) study of quotative be like in the speech of Melbourne adolescents, the Australian English quotative system remains virtually uncharted. I ad…
Otra mirada a los procesos de gramaticalización del Presente Perfecto en español: Perú y Argentina
In this paper we analyze the Preterit (e.g. Estudié toda la noche) and the Present Perfect (PP) (e.g. He estudiado toda la noche) in the Lima variety of Peruvian Spanish (PER) and in Argentinian River Plate Spanish (ARG). PER and ARG have been described as “pretérito-favoring”. We revisit this proposal and show that - although the Preterit is widespread in both these dialects - the use of the PP and the tendency for the Preterit to appear in PP c…
Perfect Evolution and Change: Preterit and Present Perfect Usage in Contemporary and Earlier Argentina
Article Perfect Evolution and Change: Preterit and Present Perfect Usage in Contemporary and Earlier Argentina was published on September 1, 2009 in the journal Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (volume 2, issue 2)
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…
Outliers, impact, and rationalization in linguistic change
Quotative be like is a rapid global innovation, yet no evidence pinpoints when it arose, under what circumstances, or the consequences of its emergence. Using a data set spanning four cities and two hemispheres, we document systemic regularity across time and space. The results force us to confront three issues: the uniformitarian principle, the criterion of face-to-face contact in the diffusion of language change, and the nature of language as a…
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”…
Quotatives down under: Be like in cross-generational Australian English speech
The English quotative system (featuring forms such as say , think , zero, go , all and be like used in direct speech reproduction and thought) has been the subject of vigorous, in-depth sociolinguistic investigation, particularly in the past two decades. However, with the notable exception of Winter’s (2002) study of quotative be like in the speech of Melbourne adolescents, the Australian English quotative system remains virtually uncharted. I ad…
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
Decolonizing the introductory linguistics curriculum
Introductory linguistics courses sometimes bypass the voices of diverse speakers, signers and writers: members of these groups do not often speak directly to students, and contributions from diverse language scholars are often overlooked. Many learning materials also present languages as unitary and unchanging by discussing single “standard” varieties without comment. This unintended bias results in students receiving an inaccurate and socially e…
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…
Stories Down Under: Tense Variation at the Heart of Australian English Narratives
We examine tense variation in the complicating portion of unreflecting narratives of past personal experience in Australian English (AusE). Previous research has shown that the simple past tense (PT), historical present (HP) and historical present perfect (HPP) alternate innovatively in performed AusE narratives, enabling speakers to foreground pivotal events in the story. However, little is known about the sociolinguistic factors constraining te…
Perfect Evolution and Change: Preterit and Present Perfect Usage in Contemporary and Earlier Argentina
Article Perfect Evolution and Change: Preterit and Present Perfect Usage in Contemporary and Earlier Argentina was published on September 1, 2009 in the journal Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (volume 2, issue 2)
Otra mirada a los procesos de gramaticalización del Presente Perfecto en español: Perú y Argentina
In this paper we analyze the Preterit (e.g. Estudié toda la noche) and the Present Perfect (PP) (e.g. He estudiado toda la noche) in the Lima variety of Peruvian Spanish (PER) and in Argentinian River Plate Spanish (ARG). PER and ARG have been described as “pretérito-favoring”. We revisit this proposal and show that - although the Preterit is widespread in both these dialects - the use of the PP and the tendency for the Preterit to appear in PP c…
Quotatives down under: Be like in cross-generational Australian English speech
The English quotative system (featuring forms such as say , think , zero, go , all and be like used in direct speech reproduction and thought) has been the subject of vigorous, in-depth sociolinguistic investigation, particularly in the past two decades. However, with the notable exception of Winter’s (2002) study of quotative be like in the speech of Melbourne adolescents, the Australian English quotative system remains virtually uncharted. I ad…
Stories Down Under: Tense Variation at the Heart of Australian English Narratives
We examine tense variation in the complicating portion of unreflecting narratives of past personal experience in Australian English (AusE). Previous research has shown that the simple past tense (PT), historical present (HP) and historical present perfect (HPP) alternate innovatively in performed AusE narratives, enabling speakers to foreground pivotal events in the story. However, little is known about the sociolinguistic factors constraining te…
Introduction to the Issue on English in Australia: Variation and Change in Diverse Speech Communities
The studies in this special issue of Australian Journal of Linguistics explore linguistic variation across varieties of English spoken in Australia. First presented at the Conference of the Austral
Indefinite past reference and the Present Perfect in Argentinian Spanish
The last decade has witnessed a flurry of research into variation in the use of the Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto (PPC) and the Pretérito Perfecto Simple (PPS). Researchers have posited a resemblance between the Argentinian (ARG) and the Mexican PPC in its encoding of durative past situations extending into the present. Close inspection of 30 hours of talk-in-interaction data with 68 speakers of Argentinian River Plate Spanish provides no support …
Outliers, impact, and rationalization in linguistic change
Quotative be like is a rapid global innovation, yet no evidence pinpoints when it arose, under what circumstances, or the consequences of its emergence. Using a data set spanning four cities and two hemispheres, we document systemic regularity across time and space. The results force us to confront three issues: the uniformitarian principle, the criterion of face-to-face contact in the diffusion of language change, and the nature of language as a…
Another story: Be like across discourse types
Quotative be like has been described as “one of the most striking developments [in English]” ( Tagliamonte and D’Arcy 2004 : 493). Despite the vast research on quotatives and the upsurge of be like , the potential impact of discourse type on the grammar of quotation has rarely been assessed. Yet, discourse type has proved a relevant factor in linguistic variation (see Travis 2007 ; Buchstaller 2011 ; Travis and Lindstrom 2016 ). Drawing on vernac…
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”…
For the love of people: Introduction to the special issue in honour of Barbara Frances Kelly
Decolonizing the introductory linguistics curriculum
Introductory linguistics courses sometimes bypass the voices of diverse speakers, signers and writers: members of these groups do not often speak directly to students, and contributions from diverse language scholars are often overlooked. Many learning materials also present languages as unitary and unchanging by discussing single “standard” varieties without comment. This unintended bias results in students receiving an inaccurate and socially e…
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…
Linguistics (16 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (15 works) · History (14 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Australian English (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works)