Voices of Regional Australia: The linguistic patterning of local attachment

该项目旨在调查澳大利亚地区居民的语言和社会动态，尽管他们占总人口的三分之一，但到目前为止，他们在研究中往往被忽视。该项目预计将产生关于地区依恋及其对言语模式的影响的新知识，首次将最近开发的国际指标适应澳大利亚的背景。预期的结果包括更好地理解城市和农村地区语言变化的模式，以及一个新的数据集，记录该地区澳大利亚人的故事，特别是他们面临丛林大火的经历。作为澳大利亚地区生活、语言和社区的记录，这应该会带来显著的好处。

This project aims to investigate language and social dynamics among regional Australians, who, despite representing one third of the population, have been often neglected in the research to date. The project expects to generate new knowledge around regional attachment and the impact that has on speech patterns, adapting for the first time recently developed international metrics to the Australian context. Expected outcomes include a better understanding of models of language change across urban and rural areas, and a novel dataset recording the stories of regional Australians, and in particular, their experiences facing bushfire. This should provide significant benefits as a record of life, language and community in regional Australia.