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ItemNo Preview AvailableImpact of Cultural and Linguistic Maintenance on Mental Health Outcomes in Migrant Adolescents: Protocol for a Scoping Review(JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC, 2023)BACKGROUND: There is no consensus on how the disruption or maintenance of heritage culture and language affect mental health outcomes in adolescents with a migrant (also known as "immigrant" or "international migrant") background. Even though previous literature reviews have investigated the association between acculturation and mental health in migrants, none have explicitly focused on adolescents. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the scoping review described in this protocol is to understand (1) the focus, scope, and nature of quantitative empirical research investigating heritage cultural maintenance, including linguistic maintenance, and mental health outcomes in adolescents with a migrant background worldwide and (2) the potential effects of cultural and linguistic maintenance or disruption on migrant adolescent mental health outcomes. METHODS: A total of 11 key electronic health, medical, social science, and language databases (APA PsycArticles Full Text; Embase Classic+Embase; Ovid MEDLINE All and Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process, In-Data-Review and Other Non-Indexed Citations and Daily; Ovid MEDLINE All; APA PsycInfo; University of Melbourne full-text journals; Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Scopus; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) were searched. Databases were searched without time restrictions from the beginning of their coverage. Publication date, location, and quantitative study design (except for literature reviews) were not restricted; however, the search was only conducted in English. Data from included studies will be extracted using a template with predefined data items, and results will be summarized in a structured, narrative summary. RESULTS: A search was conducted on April 20, 2021, returning 2569 results. We are currently at the final stages of screening titles and abstracts of our search results, which will be followed by a full-text review and the data extraction of included studies. We expect to submit the full review for publication by the end of 2023. CONCLUSIONS: The scoping review aims to provide a better understanding of existing research on the association between cultural (including linguistic) maintenance and mental health in migrant adolescents. It will help identify gaps in the existing literature and develop hypotheses that could inform future research, eventually facilitating the development of targeted prevention initiatives and improving migrant adolescents' well-being. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/40143.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableRecognising the SAE language learning needs of Indigenous primary school students who speak contact languages(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-01-01)Most Indigenous peoples live in urban and regional locations across Australia and no longer speak their traditional languages fluently. Instead contact languages, creoles and dialects, are widely spoken. In many educational settings, educators may know little about the first languages of the Indigenous children they teach, and not recognise these as different languages or dialects. Consequently, these students may not be treated as second language learners of Standard Australian English (SAE) and their language learning requirements are not considered. From a sociocultural perspective, language is crucial to students’ learning. In this paper, we quantitatively analyse the SAE learning needs of Indigenous primary school aged children in Far North Queensland using oral elicited imitation of simple sentences in SAE as a research method. Using one-way ANOVA, the results are compared with native monolingual SAE speakers showing significant differences between the two. This finding has important implications for classroom teaching practices and educational policies.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableStop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation.(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023-07-26)Many Aboriginal Australian communities are undergoing language shift from traditional Indigenous languages to contact varieties such as Kriol, an English-lexified Creole. Kriol is reportedly characterised by lexical items with highly variable phonological specifications, and variable implementation of voicing and manner contrasts in obstruents (Sandefur, 1986). A language, such as Kriol, characterised by this unusual degree of variability presents Kriol-acquiring children with a potentially difficult language-learning task, and one which challenges the prevalent theories of acquisition. To examine stop consonant acquisition in this unusual language environment, we present a study of Kriol stop and affricate production, followed by a mispronunciation detection study, with Kriol-speaking children (ages 4-7) from a Northern Territory community where Kriol is the lingua franca. In contrast to previous claims, the results suggest that Kriol-speaking children acquire a stable phonology and lexemes with canonical phonemic specifications, and that English experience would not appear to induce this stability.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableEspañol down under: Spanish for Australia and New Zealand(Council of Australian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective; Deakin University, 2023)This book focuses on a hands-on, student-centric approach to learning Spanish. Designed for the Australian and New Zealand environment for use at Deakin University, currently available is foundation level content, suitable for a first introduction to Spanish speaking. The resource is still in development with additional content progressing to more advanced skill levels currently under development.
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ItemAustralian Slavonic and East European Studies(University of Melbourne, 2023)
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ItemSociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2023-10-13)This study involves a perceptual categorization task for Australian English, designed to investigate regional and social variation in category boundaries between close-front vowel contrasts. Data are from four locations in southeast Australia. A total of 81 listeners from two listener groups took part: (a) so-called mainstream Australian English listeners from all four locations, and (b) L1 Aboriginal English listeners from one of the locations. Listeners heard front vowels /ɪ e æ/ arranged in 7-step continua presented at random. Varied phonetic contexts were analyzed, with a focus on coda /l/ because of a well-known prelateral merger of /e æ/ through mid-vowel lowering (e.g., celery-salary) reported to occur in some communities in this part of Australia. The results indicate that regional variation in Australian English is evident in perception. In particular, merging of /el/-/æl/ is shown to occur in the southernmost regions analyzed, but rarely in the northern regions of the geographical area under investigation. Aside from regional variation observed, age was also a factor in how participants responded to the task: older speakers had more merger than younger speakers in many locations, which is a new finding-previously, the merger was thought to be increasing in frequency over time, yet here we see this in only one location. Aboriginal English listeners also responded differently when compared with mainstream Australian English listeners. By analyzing the perception results across a variety of regional locations, with data from two different Australian social groups in the same location, this study adds a new dimension to our understanding of regional and social variations in Australian English.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableA counter-memory of the BUMIDOM through documentary: L’Avenir est ailleurs (2007) and BUMIDOM: des Français venus d’outre-mer (2010)(Liverpool University Press, 2023-09-05)This article questions the extent to which documentary films can be considered sites of counter-memory, a memorial practice which challenges official versions of histories and memories. It analyzes two francophone documentary films: L’Avenir est ailleurs (2007), directed by Antoine Léonard-Maestrati, and BUMIDOM, des Français venus d’outre-mer (2010), directed by Jackie Bastide. These films address the phenomenon of the BUMIDOM (Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’outre-mer). The BUMIDOM was a state-run migration bureau in operation between 1963 and 1982, and it organized the recruitment, transportation, and accommodation of workers from Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, and French Guiana arriving in mainland France. Despite the huge numbers from the overseas departments who arrived through this scheme, the BUMIDOM has not yet entered the official French national narrative. I argue, then, that documentary filmmakers use specific cinematic techniques to counter the official state-sanctioned discourse about the Bureau and allow those directly involved in its activities to share their personal experiences of migration.
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ItemVariation in the Stress of Russian Short-form Adjectives(IJORS, 2023)This article examines the dynamics of word stress in one of the more complex and increasingly literary areas of Russian, that of short-form adjectives. By comparing the stress patterns of a normative dictionary with another contemporary source which gives stylistic evaluations of stress positions, the article traces the main accentual tendencies which are occurring in this area of morphology and aligns them with two previous surveys of short-form adjectives. Above all it is the feminine singular and the plural forms which are pivotal. The article reveals the contradictory and even circular dynamics of stress in short-form adjectives, especially in patterns a, c and c´: in stem-stressed forms (pattern a) there is a clear tendency towards mobile stress by virtue of a shift of stress from stem to ending in the feminine form, while, at the same time, a smaller group of such adjectives appears to have shifted stress from the ending to the stem at an earlier stage. The main mobile-stress pattern (pattern c) also confirms a contradictory tendency to move ending stress to the stem in feminine forms together with a weaker trend to shift stem stress to the ending in the plural forms. Taken as a whole, all these shifts in different directions are creating new complex stress patterns characterised by at least two forms with variation.
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ItemRééquilibrage? A Geo-Semiotic Analysis of Noumea’s Main City Square as Case Study(Liverpool University Press, 2023-07-14)The notions of rééquilibrage and destin commun are central to the Matignon and Noumea Accords, which aimed to achieve self-determination for New Caledonia. The preamble of the Noumea accord recognizes that colonization stripped the Kanak peoples of their languages, culture and identity. As a result, various programs were launched to reinstate their memory and cultural patrimony. These were predominantly established in the Province Nord, while in the Province Sud material representations of Kanak languages and culture remained sparse. This study centres on the geosemiotics of the main city square in Noumea—the Place des Cocotiers—by examining the way in which the various communities are represented in the square and how it has evolved over time as a kind of urban palimpsest. Through the concepts of centripetal and centrifugal forces, this article focusses particularly on the tension between representations of French colonial power and the visibility of the Kanak first nation people and their identity in the built landscape. It concludes by considering the recently erected statue of Jean-Marie Tjibaou and Jacques Lafleur in the light of self-determination and the goals of rééquilibrage and destin commun.