| 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.
SpeakerSentenceAgeGroupadult and child.CaseMarkingergative and
other.WordOrdersubInitial (subject
initial) and subNotInitial (subject not initial).AnimacyOfSubjectanimate
and inanimate.OvertnessOfObjectnotOvert
and overt.AnimacyOfObjectanimate
and inanimate.Texttexta,
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.
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