Carmel O'Shannessy

Department of Linguistics University of Michigan

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My research interests include language contact phenomena, language variation and change, and child language acquisition. I am currently studying language shift and the emergence of a new bilingual mixed language, Light Warlpiri, in northern Australia, the result of processes of contact between an Australian language, Warlpiri, and English and Kriol (an English-lexified creole). Address: 450 Lorch Hall 611 Tappan Street Ann Arbor MI 48109-1220 Ph: +1 734 615 3438 Email: carmelos at umich dot edu