We examine constructed dialogue in a longitudinal corpus of Australian Aboriginal English (AE) spoken in Perth, Australia. We conduct a variationist analysis of naturalistic data from forty-six L1 speakers of AE born 1907–2005. We ask, regarding the use of quotative frames, whether AE has changed in line with settler colonial Englishes. We examine whether a division of labor exists in the use of quotative frames, and whether the rise of first-person-marked internal thought reporting attested in settler colonial Englishes is present in AE.

Our statistical modeling shows functional partitioning in how quotative frames are used, with AE speakers strongly encoding direct speech across time. We find that the rise of first-person-marked internal thought reporting has not been systemic in AE. Despite be like's incursion after 1983, the underlying system of AE has not changed. The cultural prerogative to encode speech remains strong despite sustained contact with non-First Nations Australia.

我们研究了在澳大利亚珀斯使用的澳大利亚原住民英语 (AE) 纵向语料库中的构建对话。我们对 1907 年至 2005 年出生的 46 名 AE 一级语言使用者的自然数据进行了变异主义分析。我们询问，关于引语框架的使用，AE 是否随着殖民者殖民英语的变化而改变。我们研究了引文框架的使用是否存在分工，以及在殖民英语中证实的第一人称内部思想报告的兴起是否存在于 AE 中。

我们的统计模型显示了如何使用引语框架的功能分区，AE 说话者跨时间强烈编码直接语音。我们发现，第一人称内部思想报告的兴起在 AE 中并不是系统性的。尽管1983年后be like的入侵，AE的底层系统并没有改变。尽管与澳大利亚非原住民持续接触，对语音进行编码的文化特权仍然很强大。