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Did you have a choccie bickie this arvo? A quantitative look at Australian hypocoristics
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Kidd, E and Kemp, N and Quinn, S, Did you have a choccie bickie this arvo? A quantitative look at Australian hypocoristics, Language Sciences: A World Journal of The Sciences of Language, 33, (3) pp. 359-368. ISSN 0388-0001 (2011) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2010.11.006
Abstract
This paper considers the use and representation of Australian hypocoristics (e.g., choccie→. chocolate, arvo→. afternoon). One-hundred-and-fifteen adult speakers of Australian English aged 17-84 years generated as many tokens of hypocoristics as they could in 10. min. The resulting corpus was analysed along a number of dimensions in an attempt to identify (i) general age- and gender-related trends in hypocoristic knowledge and use, and (ii) linguistic properties of each hypocoristic class. Following Bybee's (1985, 1995) lexical network approach, we conclude that Australian hypocoristics are the product of the same linguistic processes that capture other inflectional morphological processes. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Cognitive and computational psychology |
Research Field: | Psycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension) |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Communication |
Objective Field: | Communication across languages and culture |
UTAS Author: | Kemp, N (Associate Professor Nenagh Kemp) |
UTAS Author: | Quinn, S (Mrs Sara Quinn) |
ID Code: | 66262 |
Year Published: | 2011 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 10 |
Deposited By: | Psychology |
Deposited On: | 2011-01-11 |
Last Modified: | 2017-07-24 |
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