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ItemCommunity languages and LOTE provision in Victorian primary schools: Mix or match?SLAUGHTER, Y ; HAJEK, J (John Benjamins Publishing, 2007)Primary school languages education continues to be a challenging issue for all states in Australia. In Victoria, LOTE study is provided at the primary level to address the needs of linguistically diverse communities, as well as to provide an enriching learning experience for monolingual speakers of English. The challenge remains to ensure that programs that are run are effective, address the needs of the community and are embraced as a valuable and enriching component of the school curriculum. This study looks at the provision of LOTE in 2003 in Victorian primary schools and in particular, through an analysis of the geographical location of community groups and primary LOTE programs, how effectively community needs are being met. We also analyse the nature of LOTE programs through an examination of teachers’ qualifications, time allotment and program type. Factors identified by some schools as impinging on LOTE study at the primary level, such as literacy concerns and multilingual diversity, will also be examined.
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ItemLanguages Other Than English in Victorian government schools 2008SLAUGHTER, Y ; Hajek, J (Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, 2009)
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ItemLanguages Other Than English in Victorian government schools 2009SLAUGHTER, Y ; Hajek, J (Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, 2010)
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ItemProsodic phonology and raddoppiamento sintattico: a re-evaluationABSALOM, MATTHEW ; HAJEK, JOHN ( 2006)The phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico (RS) in Italian has been used to justify the notion of the phonological phrase in prosodic phonology. However, careful consideration of the application of the theory itself as well as a number of empirical problems raised by other scholars do not support the notion that the phonological phrase is useful in describing RS.
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ItemIl Fenomeno del Raddoppiamento Sintattico nella Realta Linguistica ItalianaABSALOM, MATTHEW ; HAJEK, JOHN ; STEVENS, MARY (M. D'Auria Editore, 2004)Il presente contributo tratta il fenomeno del raddoppiamento sintattico (RS), noto negli studi linguistici italiani già da 500 anni. L’obiettivo principale di questo lavoro è “problematizzare” la descrizione del RS illustrando una serie di considerazioni che, a nostro avviso, vanno tenute presenti da chi vuole intraprendere un’analisi fonologica del processo in modo che rifletta la realtà linguistica italiana. La presente relazione può essere vista come una reazione alla visione “depurata” di un processo banalmente categorico come viene spesso presentato il RS negli studi fonologici scritti in lingua inglese. Tale immagine limitata è stata addirittura adoperata per motivare interi costrutti teorici come la frase fonologica della cosiddetta Fonologia Prosodica, motivazione successivamente messa in dubbio da vari studiosi fra cui una delle proponenti originali. Il presente lavoro verte su tre affermazioni che spesso emergono dai contributi teorici sul RS le quali saranno valutate rispetto al loro valore fattuale.
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ItemPost-aspiration in standard Italian: some first cross-regional acoustic evidenceStevens, M ; Hajek, J (ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC, 2010)
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Item(Mis)perceiving /el/ ~ /æl/ in Melbourne English: a micro-analysis of sound perception and changeLoakes, DEL ; Hajek, JTH ; Fletcher, JF (Australasian Speech Science and Technology Australia (ASSTA), 2010)
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ItemA Blueprint for a Comprehensive Australian English Auditory-Visual Speech CorpusBurnham, D ; Ambikairajah, E ; Arciuli, J ; Bennamoun, M ; Best, CT ; Bird, S ; Butcher, AR ; Cassidy, S ; Chetty, G ; Cox, FM ; Cutler, A ; Dale, R ; Epps, JR ; Fletcher, JM ; Goecke, R ; Grayden, DB ; Hajek, JT ; Ingram, JC ; Ishihara, S ; Kemp, N ; Kinoshita, Y ; Kuratate, T ; Lewis, TW ; Loakes, DE ; Onslow, M ; Powers, DM ; Rose, P ; Togneri, R ; Tran, D ; Wagner, M (Cascadilla Press, 2009)Contemporary speech science is driven by the availability of large, diverse speech corpora. Such infrastructure underpins research and technological advances in various practical, socially beneficial and economically fruitful endeavours, from ASR to hearing prostheses. Unfortunately, speech corpora are not easy to come by because they are both expensive to collect and are not favoured by the usual funding sources as their collection per se does not fall under the classification of ‘research’. Nevertheless they provide the sine qua non for many avenues of research endeavour in speech science. The only publicly available Australian speech corpus is the 12-year-old Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL) database (see http://andosl.anu.edu.au/; Millar, Dermody, Harrington, & Vonwillar, 1990), which is now outmoded due to its small number of participants, just a single recording session per speaker, low fidelity, audio-only rather than AV data, its lack of disordered speech, and limited coverage of indigenous and ethnocultural Australian English (AusE) variants. There are more up-to-date UK and US English language corpora, but these are mostly audio-only, and use of these for AusE purposes is not optimal, and results in inaccuracies.
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ItemWaima'a: Challenges for Language Documentation and Maintenance in East TimorHajek, J ; Bowden, J ; Florey, (Oxford University Press, 2010-05-01)
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ItemDummy pronoun insertion after conditional "if" in Greco-CorsicanHAJEK, J. ; NICHOLAS, N. ( 2008)