Nick Thieberger

The Language Documentation Quartet

Simon Musgrave, Nicholas Thieberger

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages

As we noted in an earlier paper (Musgrave & Thieberger 2012), the written description of a language is an essentially hypertextual..

Acoustic evidence for right-edge prominence in Nafsan

Rosemary Billington, Janet Fletcher, Nick Thieberger, Ben Volchok

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Oceanic languages are often described as preferring primary stress on penultimate syllables, but detailed surveys show that many d..

Be Not Like the Wind: Access to Language and Music Records, Next Steps

Nicholas Thieberger, Amanda Harris

Journal article  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the Language Technologies for All (LT4All)

Language archives play an important role in keeping records of the world’s languages safe. Accessible audio recordings held in arc..

Technology in Support of Languages of The Pacific: Neo-Colonial or Post-Colonial?

Nick Thieberger

Journal article  |  2020  |  Asian-European Music Research Journal

The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) has been digitising recordings of traditio..

Phonetic evidence for phonotactic change in Nafsan (South Efate)

Rosemary Billington, Nick Thieberger, Janet Fletcher

Journal article  |  2020  |  Italian Journal of Linguistics

Nafsan, an Oceanic language of central Vanuatu, is notable for the complex phonotactic structures it exhibits compared to language..

Glossopticon: Visualising archival data

A Burrell, R Hendery, N Thieberger

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  2019 23rd International Conference in Information Visualization – Part II

© 2019 IEEE. Glossopticon is a Virtual Reality (VR)-based information visualisation system that presents heritage audio recordings..

Compilation of Solomon Island speakers

Debra McDougall, Nick Thieberger

Recorded or Rendered Work - Film, Video  |  2019

Public access to research data in language documentation: Challenges and possible strategies

Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Felix Ameka, Lissant Bolton, Jonathan Blumtritt, Brian Carpenter, Hilaria Cruz, Sebastian Drude, Patience L Epps, Vera Ferreira, Ana Vilacy Galucio, Brigit Hellwig, Oliver Hinte, Gary Holton, Dagmar Jung, Irmgarda Kasinskaite Buddeberg, Manfred Krifka, Susan Kung, Miyuki Monroig, Ayu'nwi Ngwabe Neba, Sebastian Nordhoff, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & CONSERVATION

Access to recordings in the languages of the Pacific

Nicholas Thieberger

Journal article  |  2019  |  Historic Environment

With over a quarter of the world’s languages the Pacific is a particularly good place to focus on how language records can be made..

Prosodic marking of focus in Nafsan

Janet Fletcher, Rosemary Billington, Nick Thieberger

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Prosodic marking of focus in Nafsan

Languages use a variety of means to realise informational structure categories like topicalisation and focus. The interaction betw..