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Selected Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

Tent, Jan & John E. Clark. (1980). An experimental investigation into the perception of slips of the tongue. Journal of Phonetics, Vol. 8: 317-325.

Tent, Jan. (1993). Phonetic symmetry in sound systems. Symmetry: Culture and Science, Vol. 4, No. 4: 345-368.

Tent, Jan & Paul Geraghty. (1996). The linguistic legacy of early Dutch explorers in Polynesia. Leuvense Bijdragen (Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology), Vol. 85, No. 3-4: 347-369.

Geraghty, Paul & Jan Tent. (1997a). Early Dutch loanwords in Polynesia. Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 106, No. 2: 131-160.

Geraghty, Paul & Jan Tent. (1997b). More early Dutch loanwords in Polynesia. Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 106, No. 4: 395-408.

Tent, Jan. (1998). The structure of deictic day-name systems. Studia Linguistica, Vol. 52, No. 2: 112-148.

Tent, Jan. (1999). Symmetry and asymmetry in the structure of deictic day name systems. Symmetry: Culture and Science. Vol. 10, Nos. 2-4:365-392.

Tent, Jan. (2000a). English lexicography in Fiji: An account of how the lexis of Fiji English is being recorded. English Today, 63, Vol. 16, No. 3: 22-28.

Tent, Jan. (2000b). Rotis on the rara: Lexical nativisation in Fiji English. Te Reo, Vol. 43: 3-20.

Tent, Jan. (2001a). A profile of the Fiji English lexis. English World-Wide, Vol. 22, No. 2: 211-247.

Tent, Jan. (2001b). Yod deletion in Fiji English: Phonological shibboleth or L2 English? Language Variation and Change, Vol. 13, No. 2-3: 161-191.

Tent, Jan & Paul Geraghty. (2001c). Exploding sky or exploded myth?: The origin of 'papalagi'. Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 110, No. 2: 171-214.

Tent, Jan. (2006). Geographic and Linguistic Reflections on Moent and Dubbelde Ree, two of Australia’s first placenames. Geographical Research (formerly Australian Geographical Studies), Vol. 44, No. 4: 389-402.

Dictionaries

Contributor of Fiji English slang terms to the 2005 New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. London: Routledge.

Geraghty, Paul, France Mugler & Jan Tent. (2006). Macquarie English Dictionary for the Fiji Islands. Sydney: Macquarie Library.

Book Chapters

Tent, Jan & France Mugler. (1996). Why a Fiji corpus? In Sidney Greenbaum (ed.), Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English. pp. 249-261 Oxford: Clarendon Press. Reprinted in: Geoffrey Sampson & Diana McCarthy (eds), 2004. Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline. pp. 276-284. London: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Mugler, France & Jan Tent. (1998). Some aspects of language use and attitudes in Fiji. In Jan Tent & France Mugler (eds). SICOL Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics: Volume I, Language Contact. pp. 109-134. C-141. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU.

Tent, Jan. (2001). The current status of English in Fiji. In Bruce Moore (ed.). Who's Centric Now? The Present State of Post-colonial Englishes. pp.241-268. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Tent, Jan (2004). Lexical borrowing in Fiji English. In Jan Tent & Paul Geraghty (eds). Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective. pp. 307-330. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU.

Geraghty, Paul & Jan Tent (2004). From lowlands to islands: Dutch loans in Polynesia. In Jan Tent & Paul Geraghty (eds). Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective. pp. 99-143. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU.

Tent, Jan & France Mugler (2004). The phonology of Fiji English. In Bernd Kortmann, Edgar Schneider, Kate Burridge, Raj Mesthrie, & Clive Upton (eds). A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol. 1: Phonology. pp. 193-222. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter.

Mugler, France & Jan Tent (2004). The morphology and syntax of Fiji English. In Bernd Kortmann, Edgar Schneider, Kate Burridge, Raj Mesthrie, & Clive Upton (eds). A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol. 2: Morphology and Syntax. pp. 229-247. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter.

Edited Volumes

Tent, Jan & France Mugler (eds). (1998). SICOL Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics: Vol. I, Language Contact. C-141. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU.

Tent, Jan & Paul Geraghty (eds) (2004). Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU.

Non-refereed Publications

Talay-Ongan, Ayshe, Lynn Clugston, Sheila Degotardi, Jan Tent, Andriene Beattie, & Margaret McNaught (2002). Online PLUS traditional teaching: Are we mad? In Anna Reid, Maree Gosper & Sharon Fraser (eds). Celebrating Teaching at Macquarie 2002. CD ROM. Sydney: The Centre for Professional Development & The Centre for Flexible Learning, Macquarie University.

Tent, Jan (2005). The Enigma of Moent. Placenames Australia. Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey. March. pp.1, 4-8.
http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/documents/March_2005.pdf

Tent, Jan (2005). More on Moent. Placenames Australia. Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey. June. pp.10-11.
http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/documents/June_2005.pdf

Tent, Jan (2005). The dangers of taking placenames at face value: Orange & Camperdown. Placenames Australia. Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey. December. http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/documents/December_2005.pdf

Tent, Jan (2006). The importance of bygone placenames. Placenames Australia. March, pp. 10-11. http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/documents/March_2006.pdf

Tent, Jan (2006). Dutch place-naming practices, 1606-1756. Placenames Australia. September. pp. 6-8. http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/documents/September_2006.pdf

Forthcoming

Tent, Jan (2006). Naming places on the Southland: The Dutch legacy. Australian Geographer.

Tent, Jan, Paul Geraghty & France Mugler (2007) Macquarie Student English Dictionary for the Fiji Islands. Sydney: Macquarie Library.

Conference Papers

The Vocabulary of Fiji English: A Brief Profile and Analysis. Presented at the AUSTRALEX 1999 Conference, Australian National University, October, 1999.