Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP130104275
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
The social dynamics of language: a study of phonological variation and change in West Australian English. This project studies the role of pronunciation as a marker of individual and community identity. As the first systematic study of accent variability in Perth, it focusses on how, across different contexts, speakers from older and younger generations and different backgrounds deploy speech as a means of projecting social affiliation and difference.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2013
End Date: 04-2019
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $320,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Linguistics | Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
