warlpiri {languageR} | R Documentation |
This data set documents the use of ergative case marking in the narratives of native speakers of Lajamanu Warlpiri (8 children, 13 adults) describing events in picture books.
data(warlpiri)
A data frame with 347 observations on the following 9 variables.
Speaker
Sentence
AgeGroup
adult
and child
.CaseMarking
ergative
and
other
.WordOrder
subInitial
(subject
initial) and subNotInitial
(subject not initial).AnimacyOfSubject
animate
and inanimate
.OvertnessOfObject
notOvert
and overt
.AnimacyOfObject
animate
and inanimate
.Text
texta
,
textb
and textc
.O'Shannessy, C. (2006) Language contact and child bilingual acquisition: Learning a mixed language and Warlpiri in northern Australia, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, Australia.
## Not run: data(warlpiri) library(lme4, keep.source = FALSE) warlpiri.lmer = lmer(CaseMarking ~ WordOrder * AgeGroup + AnimacyOfSubject + (1|Text) + (1|Speaker), family = "binomial", data = warlpiri, method = "Laplace") warlpiri.lmer ## End(Not run)