Chloe Diskin-Holdaway

Attitudes to English in contemporary Malaysia

Jia Chi Ng, Chloe Diskin-Holdaway

Journal article  |  2021  |  WORLD ENGLISHES

This paper examines the attitudes that Malaysians of different backgrounds hold towards the English language in Malaysia, as well ..

New insights into /el/-/AE l/ merging in Australian English

Penelope Schmidt, Chloe Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS

A merger exists in Australian English in which /el/ is realized as [æl] for a number of speakers, particularly in Victoria. There ..

Attitudes towards Indian English among young urban professionals in Hyderabad, India

Olga Maxwell, Chloe Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes

Journal article  |  2021  |  WORLD ENGLISHES

Despite extensive work on the description of Indian English(es), only limited attention has been paid to attitudes towards the var..

You know and like among migrants in Ireland and Australia

Chloe Diskin-Holdaway

Journal article  |  2021  |  WORLD ENGLISHES

This study investigates the use and adoption of the discourse-pragmatic markers you know and like among L2 speakers of the Expandi..

Vi snakker sådan: An analysis of the Danish discourse-pragmatic marker sådan

C Schoning, J Helder, C Diskin-Holdaway

Journal article  |  2021  |  Nordic Journal of Linguistics

The last three decades have witnessed increasing interest in discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), both with regards to their high f..

New Speakers in the Irish Context: Heritage Language Maintenance Among Multilingual Migrants in Dublin, Ireland

C Diskin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Education

© Copyright © 2020 Diskin. A migrant “boom” in Ireland in the 2000s led to a 143% increase in non-Irish nationals, marking a shift..

'Northmen, Southmen, comrades all'? The adoption of discourse like by migrants north and south of the Irish border

KP Corrigan, C Diskin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Language in Society

The Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland (NI) have recently become attractive migrant destinations. Two main dialectal v..

A sociophonetic analysis of vowels produced by female Irish migrants: Investigating second dialect contact in Melbourne

Chloe Diskin, Deborah Loakes, Joshua Clothier, Ben Volchok

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019

We present preliminary results of an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowels produced by five female Irish migrants in Melbourne..

Going global and sounding local Quotative variation and change in L1 and L2 speakers of Irish (Dublin) English

Chloe Diskin, Stephen Levey

Journal article  |  2019  |  English World-Wide: a journal of varieties of English

We chart the incursion of quotative be like into Dublin English, drawing comparisons with similar developments in urban Canadian E..

The /el/-/æl/ merger in Australian English: Acoustic and articulatory insights

Chloé Diskin, Debbie Loakes, Rosemary Billington, Hywel Stoakes, Simón Gonzalez, Sam Kirkham

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  The /el/-/æl/ merger in Australian English: Acoustic and articulatory insights

This paper investigates a merger-in-progress of /e/-/æ/ in prelateral contexts for speakers of Australian English in Victoria. Twe..