Jennifer Munro
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jennifer Munro plays a role.
Articles
2016 Rethinking Australian Aboriginal English-based speech varieties: Evidence from Woorabinda Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:1, pp. 82–112 | Article
The colonial history of Australia necessitated contact between nineteenth and twentieth century dialects of English and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island languages. This has resulted in the emergence of contact languages, some of which have been identified as creoles (e.g. Sandefur 1979, Shnukal… read more
2016 Same but different: Understanding language contact in Queensland Indigenous settlements Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe and Diane Hafner (eds.), pp. 383–408 | Article
In this paper we examine the historical and social factors associated with language contact in three Queensland settlements – Yarrabah, Cherbourg and Woorabinda – and discuss the impact these may have had on the emergence of the English-lexified vernacular languages associated with these… read more
2011 Roper River Aboriginal language features in Australian Kriol: Considering semantic categories Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 461–487 | Article
Kriol, an English-lexified creole language of northern Australia, is the primary language of the Roper River region in the Northern Territory. This paper describes findings from research that examined Roper Kriol for evidence of influence from the Indigenous substrate languages of that region,… read more