Did you have a choccie bickie this arvo? A quantitative look at Australian hypocoristics

Kidd, Evan; Kemp, Nenagh; Quinn, Sara

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Did you have a choccie bickie this arvo? A quantitative look at Australian hypocoristics

Date

2011

Authors

Kidd, Evan

Kemp, Nenagh

Quinn, Sara

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

This paper considers the use and representation of Australian hypocoristics (e.g., choccie→. chocolate, arvo→. afternoon). One-hundred-and-fifteen adult speakers of Australian English aged 17-84 years generated as many tokens of hypocoristics as they