Catherine E. Travis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Catherine E. Travis is involved.
2023 Stability and change in (ing): Ethnic and grammatical variation over time in Australian English English World-Wide 44:3, pp. 435–469 | Article
Work on variable (ing) has highlighted its long-term stability and shared conditioning across English varieties. Here, we ask whether similar stability and conditioning holds in Australian English over time and across ethnicity. The data come from sociolinguistic interviews with 204 Australians… read more
2021 Chapter 13. Ethnic variation in real time: Change in Australian English diphthongs Language Variation – European Perspectives VIII: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019, Van de Velde, Hans, Nanna Haug Hilton and Remco Knooihuizen (eds.), pp. 291–314 | Chapter
Ethnic and ethnolectal variation in migrant communities have received much attention, but the manifestation and longevity of this variation is not yet well understood. Capitalising on Barbara Horvath’s foundational study of social variation in Australian English, and a comparable, recent corpus… read more
2021 Gender, mobility and contact: Stability and change in an Acehnese dialect Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 142–167 | Article
We examine variation in a rural variety of Acehnese spoken in Aceh Province, to better understand the impact of long-term contact with Indonesian and increasing urbanization. The Great Aceh variety is characterized by variable realization of word-final (t) as a dental vs. glottal stop. Analyses… read more
2018 Discovering structure: Person and accessibility Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy, Shin, Naomi and Daniel Erker (eds.), pp. 67–90 | Chapter
We probe grammatical person differences comparing 3sg with 1sg in actual language use, utilizing subject pronoun expression in Spanish. We reconfigure the familiar constraint of accessibility to distinguish between clause linking (prosodic and syntactic connectedness) in coreferential contexts and… read more
2014 Stress on I: Debunking unitary contrast accounts Studies in Language 38:2, pp. 360–392 | Article
Much previous work on stress describes its function as being that of marking contrast. While some evidence has been adduced in experimental studies, work on spontaneous speech data has been plagued by a lack of operational definitions. To address this, we examine approximately 1,500 tokens of the… read more
2005 The Yo-Yo Effect: Priming in Subject Expression in Colombian Spanish Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004, Gess, Randall and Edward J. Rubin (eds.), pp. 329–349 | Article
2002 4. La Metalengua Semántica Natural: The Natural Semantic Metalanguage of Spanish Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and empirical findings, Goddard, Cliff and Anna Wierzbicka (eds.), pp. 173–242 | Article