WSC Research

1. Masters Theses

Hay, Jen 1995. Gender and Humour: Beyond a Joke. Unpublished MA (Linguistics) thesis. Wellington: Victoria University.

Na, Xingwei 1998. A Corpus-based Study of Irregular Full Verbs. Unpublished MA (Applied Linguistics) Research Project. Wellington: Victoria University.

Yang, Wen 1996. Discourse Analysis of Direct and Indirect Speech in Spoken New Zealand English. Unpublished MA (Applied Linguistics) thesis. Wellington: Victoria University.

2. Doctoral Theses

Hundt, Marianne 1996. New Zealand English and its relation to British and American English: A Corpus-Based Study in Morphosyntactic Variation. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Freiburg: University of Freiburg.

Sigley, Robert 1997. Choosing your Relatives: Relative Clauses in New Zealand English. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington.

3. Conference papers

Bauer, Laurie 1991. Progress with a Corpus of New Zealand English and early results. Paper presented to ICAME Conference, Ilkley.

Bauer, Laurie 1993. The Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English. Paper presented to New Zealand Linguistic Society Conference, Hamilton.

Bauer, Laurie 1994. The Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English. Paper presented to Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Melbourne.

Holmes, Janet 1991. Progress with the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. Paper presented to New Zealand Linguistic Society Conference, Christchurch.

Holmes, Janet 1992. Progress with the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. Paper presented to New Zealand Language and Society Conference Auckland.

Holmes, Janet 1993. Chairpersons and goddesses: non-sexist usages in New Zealand English, Te Reo 36: 99-113. Paper presented to Third New Zealand Language and Society Conference, Auckland.

Holmes, Janet 1994. Two for /t/: flapping and glottal stops in New Zealand English. Te Reo 38: 53-72. Paper presented at the Fourth New Zealand Language and Society Conference, Lincoln University.

 

Holmes, Janet and Maria Stubbe 1994. You know, eh and other "exasperating expressions": an analysis of social and stylistic variation in the use of pragmatic devices in a sample of New Zealand English. Paper presented at the Fourth New Zealand Language and Society Conference, Lincoln University.

Sigley, Robert 1996. How Far can New Zealand English be Yanked? Paper given at the 5th New Zealand Language and Society Conference, Christchurch.

Vine, Bernadette, Gary Johnson & Janet Holmes 1996. Building the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. Paper given at the 5th New Zealand Language and Society Conference, Christchurch.

4. Publications

Bauer, Laurie. 1991. Who speaks New Zealand English?, ICE Newsletter 11.

Holmes, Janet 1993a. Chairpersons and goddesses: non-sexist usages in New Zealand English, Te Reo 36: 99-113.

Holmes, Janet 1993b. He-man beings, poetesses, and tramps: sexist language in New Zealand. In Laurie Bauer and Christine Franzen (eds) Of Pavlova, Poetry and Paradigms: Essays in Honour of Harry Orsman. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 34-49.

Holmes, Janet 1993c. Sex-marking suffixes in New Zealand written English, American Speech 68, 4: 357-370.

Holmes, Janet 1994a. Inferring language change from computer corpora: some methodological problems, ICAME Journal 18: 27-40.

Holmes, Janet 1994b. New Zealand flappers: an analysis of T Voicing in New Zealand English, English World-Wide 15, 2: 195-224.

Holmes, Janet 1994c. The Wellington Corpus of New Zealand English, TESOLANZ Newsletter 3, 3: 7.

Holmes, Janet 1994d. Methodological problems in collecting spoken New Zealand English, ICE Newsletter 19.

Holmes, Janet 1995a. Glottal stops in New Zealand English: an analysis of variants of word-final /t/, Linguistics 33, 3: 433-463.

Holmes, Janet 1995b. Two for /t/: flapping and glottal stops in New Zealand English, Te Reo 38: 53-72.

Holmes, Janet 1995c. The Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English: a progress report, New Zealand English Newsletter 9: 5-8.

Holmes, Janet 1996a. Collecting the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English: some methodological challenges, New Zealand English Journal 10.

Holmes, Janet 1996b. The New Zealand spoken component of ICE: some methodological challenges. In Sidney Greenbaum (ed) Comparing English Word-Wide: The International Corpus of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Holmes, Janet and Laurie Bauer 1996. Intervocalic /t/ in New Zealand English, World Englishes 15: 117-126.

Holmes, Janet and Maria Stubbe 1995. You know, eh and other "exasperating expressions": an analysis of social and stylistic variation in the use of pragmatic devices in a sample of New Zealand English, Language and Communication 15, 1: 63-88.

Johnson, Gary and Janet Holmes 1996. The Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English: transcription and ethical issues, New Zealand English Journal 10.

Sigley, Robert 1997a. The influence of formality and channel on relative pronoun choice in New Zealand English, English Language and Linguistics 1 (2), 207-232.

Sigley, Robert 1997b. Text categories and where you can stick them: a crude formality index, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2 (1), 1-39.

Yang, Wen 1997. Discourse Analysis of direct and indirect speech in spoken New Zealand English, New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics 3, 62-78.