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With increasing migration across the globe, there has been an upsurge of interest in “ethnolects”, varieties of speech used by ethnically diverse groups of young people in modern metropolises. Major projects are underway, for example, in London, Berlin, Stockholm, Toronto and, through the Sydney Speaks project, Sydney. Sydney Speaks considers quantitative patterns of variation in phonetic, morphosyntactic and discourse features as observed in spontaneous spoken language by Sydney-siders of diverse social backgrounds. A contemporary (2010s) corpus will be compared with a corpus of 1970s Sydney speech (Horvath 1985), allowing the fine details of language change to be tracked in real time and in actual language use. In this talk, some of the key questions to be addressed in the project are presented, motivated by some findings from the 1970s data.
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