Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction
4. Language and identity in Australia 1
5. Section A: English in Australia: structure
6. Phonology
7. The changing face of  Australian English vowels 17
8. Variation and change in Australian consonants 45
9. The vocalisation of dark l in Australian English 69
10. Morphology
11. Hypocoristics of place-names in Australian English 89
12. Syntax
13. Syntactic features and norms in Australian English 113
14. Lexicon
15. Australian English and indigenous voices 133
16. Australian English — an identity crisis 151
17. Corpus evidence on Australian style and usage 163
18. Section B: English in Australia: variation
19. Torres Strait and Aboriginal
20. Torres Strait English 181
21. Aboriginal English 201
22. Ethnic varieties
23. Ethnic varieties of Australian English 223
24. Australian English and recent migrant groups 239
25. Diachronic and generational variation
26. The acquisition of colloquialisms by non-native speakers 259
27. Changing attitudes to Australian English 271
28. A.G. Mitchell and the development of Australian pronunciation 287
29. Lexicography and national identity 303
30. Australian English in interaction with other Englishes 317
31. Regional variation
32. A Geolinguistics of short A  in Australian English 341
33. Index 357