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We acknowledge the First Nations people of the still unceded lands in which we live and work.
We pay our respects to their elders, leaders and communities.

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Sydney time Monday 06 December
Language Variation and Change - Australia 5

Organisers: Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Catherine Travis and James Walker
09:00-10:00 Plenary: Simplification in bilinguals’ parallel structures? (Rena Torres Cacoullos)
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 The get-passive: A semasiological approach to variation (John Rice-Whetton)
11:00-11:30 Intergenerational changes in Gurindji Kriol: Comparing apparent-time & real-time data (Bodean Sloan, Felicity Meakins and Cassandra Algy)
11:30-12:00 It’s live or die, you know: Utterance-final tags in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal English (Lucia Fraiese, Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Language attitudes in Australia: Preliminary results from a nationwide survey (Chloé Diskin-Holdaway)
14:00-14:30 Swearing in Australian English: The influence of ethnicity on attitudes and Use (Carolin Krafzik)
14:30-15:00 Folk perceptions of Cypriot Greek regional variation in the context of regional dialect levelling (Constantina Fotiou and Kleanthes K. Grohmann)

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