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    The Developmental Profile of Editing and Repair Strategies in Narrative Structure: A Cross-sectional Study of Primary School Children
    Stirling, L ; Barrington, G ; Douglas, S ; Delves, K ; Chandlee, J ; Franchini, M ; Lord, S ; Rheiner, GM (CASCADILLA PRESS, 2009)
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    A Blueprint for a Comprehensive Australian English Auditory-Visual Speech Corpus
    Burnham, 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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    Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of an L2 and Language Proficiency
    ELDER, C. ; Ellis, R. (Multilingual Matters, 2009)
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    Validating a test of metalinguistic knowledge
    Elder, C ; Ellis, R ; Loewen, S ; Elder, C ; Erlam, R ; Philp, J ; Reinders, H (Multilingual Matters, 2009-01-01)
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    The spectre of the Dictation Test: Language testing for immigration and citizenship in Australia
    MCNAMARA, T ; Extra, GE ; Spotti, MS ; Van Avermaet, PVA (Continuum, 2009)
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    Language and Human Relations Styles of Address in Contemporary Language Introduction
    Clyne, M ; Norrby, C ; Warren, J (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2009)
    The way in which people address one another is crucial to expressing social relationships and is closely linked with cultural values. In English we call some people by their first names, and others 'Mr' or 'Ms', followed by their surname. In some other languages there are different ways of saying 'you' depending on the degree of social distance. Exploring practices in the family, school, university, the workplace and in letters, this book reveals patterns in the varied ways people choose to address one another, from pronouns to first names, from honorifics to titles and last names. Examples are taken from contemporary English, French, German and Swedish, using rich data from focus group research, interviews, chat groups, and participant observation.
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