Double modals in Australian and New Zealand English

• Published in: World Englishes Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 415 - 438
• Main Authors: Morin, Cameron, Coats, Steven
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2025
• Subjects: Computational linguistics; Corpus linguistics; English language; Grammatical categories; New Zealand English; Sociolinguistics; Speech recognition; Voice recognition; World Englishes; New Zealand

This paper reports the first large‐scale corpus study of double modal usage in Australian and New Zealand Englishes, based on a multi‐million‐word corpus of geolocated automatic speech recognition transcripts from YouTube. Double modals are considered rare grammatical features of English, which have...