languageR (version 1.0)

warlpiri: Ergative case marking in Warlpiri

Description

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.

Usage

data(warlpiri)

References

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.

Examples

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