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Organised Session: Linguistic Landscapes
The Lexicon
Language Change
Masks, trucks, and red banners in the COVID-19 linguistic landscape (Xiaofang Yao)
How do you say ‘waistcoat’ in Yagara? Lexical innovations for European items in a SE Queensland language (Kari Sullivan and Glenda Harward-Nalder)
Language change in progress: an examination of the Japanese causative-benefactive construction from a TV talk show (Kimiyo Matsui)
Linguistic landscape and Japanese Brazilians as return migrants in Japan (Satoshi Nambu)
Emotion nouns in Australian Indigenous languages: Interpreting the semantic distribution (Eleanor Yacopetti and Maïa Ponsonnet)
Article emergence in the Unua DP (Elizabeth Pearce)
Making sense of different responses to semiotic landscapes: An investigation of two case studies (Jessica Velasquez Urribarri and Nhan Phan)
A national survey of the Australian lexicon: “bonzer” users and “shithouse” challenges (Howard Manns, Simon Musgrave, Kate Burridge, Isabelle Burke, Dylan Hughes and Keith Allan)
Towards the creation of new tone categories: Examples from the Tangsa languages (Stephen Morey)
Discussion
Break
Applied Linguistics
Creoles
Wetin una dey yan: variation in the use of copula dey in Nigerian Pidgin English (Mayowa Akinlotan)
Phonetics and Phonology Practice-Based Training & Accentedness Reduction. (Khedir Almoayidi)
The Kriol Holi Baibul – A tool of coloniality or an act of plurality? (Dima Rusho and John Bradley)
Organised Session: Decolonisation, inclusion and collaboration in Linguistics (Free session, open to public)
Sociolinguistics
Historical Linguistics
Sharing manyardi across generations, cultures, and disciplines to keep endangered languages strong at Warruwi, Australia (Reuben Brown, Isabel O'Keeffe, Ruth Singer, Rupert Manmurulu and Renfred Manmurulu)
7000 ways of saying the same thing: Connecting linguistic diversity with sociolinguistic variation (John Mansfield, Henry Leslie-O'Neill and Haoyi Li)
Trials and tribulations of tree inference: The challenge of phonotactics in phylogenetics and why it matters (Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes)
Ontologies of incompleteness, convivial scholarship: Alternative pathways to co-create and decolonise our field (Finex Ndhlovu)
Vowels
Bilingualism
An acoustic study of ATR vowels in Tima (Marija Tabain, Gertrud Schneider-Blum, Adele Gregory and Jaye Padgett)
Inflectional morphology in adolescent Heritage Russian speakers (Ellena Brownlow)
Plenary: Signalling exclusive and shared knowledge in discourse-typological parameters and methodological considerations (Eva Schultze-Berndt)