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Nick Thieberger

Principal Fellow Of Linguistics

Languages and Linguistics

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Nick Thieberger

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Language documentation

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Hypothetically Speaking: Ethics in linguistic fieldwork, a provocation

Nick Thieberger's selected work

Nick Thieberger's selected work

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE

Research Grant

How data expertise is fostering endangered languages

NEWS ARTICLE

Hypothetically Speaking

Book Chapter

Small stones can break big canoes: Securing records of the world's indigenous languages

Research Grant

50 words in Australian Indigenous languages

NEWS ARTICLE

Customary song in Christian clothing

Conference Proceedings

Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects from 30 for Nick Thieberger.

Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages

Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: H..

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE (ARCHIVING THREAD - CHILD PROJECT FOR ANU SERVICES)

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Research Grant

8

Internal Research Grant

5

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Scholarly Works

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Hypothetically Speaking: Ethics in linguistic fieldwork, a provocation

Simon MUSGRAVE, Nicholas Thieberger

Book Chapter | 2023

Ethical issues are not always easily resolved. In the case of language documentation work, such issues require careful thought to ..

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Hypothetically Speaking

Simon Musgrave, Nick Thieberger

Book Chapter | 2023

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Customary song in Christian clothing

Nick Thieberger, Linda Barwick

Conference Proceedings | 2023 | Proceedings of the 11th Conference On Oceanic Linguistics

In this paper, we illustrate the maintenance of archaic forms of Nafsan (a language spoken in Efate, Vanuatu) in song, and take on..

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Materials in Nafsan, Vanuatu

Nicholas Thieberger

Dataset | 2022

A summary of a number of resources I have created for the language Nafsan, https://www.nthieberger.net/sefate.html

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When Your Data is My Grandparents Singing. Digitisation and Access for Cultural Records, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)

Nick Thieberger, Amanda Harris

Journal article | 2022 | Data Science Journal

In this paper we discuss the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), a research repos..

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Community-Led Documentation of Nafsan (Erakor, Vanuatu)

Ana Krajinovic, Rosey Billington, Lionel Emil, Gray Kaltapau, Nick Thieberger

Book Chapter | 2022 | Lecture Notes in Computer Science

We focus on a collaboration between community members and visiting linguists in Erakor, Vanuatu, aiming to build the capacity of c..

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Community-Led Documentation of Nafsan (Erakor, Vanuatu)

Nicholas Thieberger, Ana Krajinovic, Rosey Billington, Gray Kaltap ̃au, Lionel Emil

Journal article | 2022 | Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics

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From Archival Find to Public Domain: Otto Rank’s Homosexual Tendencies in Mythology and Literature

Birgit Lang, Nick Thieberger, Brigid Grigg, Robert Turnbull, Daniel Russo-Batterham, Edoardo Tescari

Presentation | 2021

Australasian Association for Digital Humanities

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Nafsan

Rosey Billington, Nick Thieberger, Janet Fletcher

Journal article | 2021 | JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ASSOCIATION

Nafsan (ISO 639-3: erk, Glottocode: sout2856), also known as South Efate, is a Southern Oceanic language of Vanuatu. It is spoken ..

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The Pacific Expansion: Optimizing phonetic transcription of archival corpora

Rosey Billington, Hywel Stoakes, Nick Thieberger

Conference Proceedings | 2021 | INTERSPEECH 2021

For most of the world’s languages, detailed phonetic analyses across different aspects of the sound system do not exist, due in pa..

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Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, Language and History

Pacific Peoples Culture, Language and History

Other Language, Communication and Culture

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage and Culture

Language Studies

Pacific Peoples Heritage and Culture

News

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How data expertise is fostering endangered languages

Nick Thieberger, Marco La Rosa, Story Producer: Andrew Trounson

Like many indigenous peoples, the Native American Cherokee Nation want their younger people to speak and pass on their language, but this i..

pursuit Article

50 words in Australian Indigenous languages

Nick Thieberger, Rachel Nordlinger, Jill Vaughan, Allyra Murray, Kobe Atkinson

Have you ever been driving through the vast Australian landscape and stopped to think ‘how would I say hello in the local Indigenous langua..

November 9, 2020

pursuit Article

Breathing new life into old songs

Reuben Brown, Sally Treloyn, Nick Thieberger, Andrew Dowding

This article contains names, images and voices of people who have passed away. Descendants of the singers have given their permission for t..

January 18, 2018

pursuit Article

Islands of language enter virtual reality

Nick Thieberger

There are almost 7,000 human languages spoken around the world, but by the end of the century almost half could be extinct, existing only a..

pursuit Article

The race to digitise language records of the Pacific region before it is too late

Nick Thieberger

A suitcase of reel-to-reel audio tapes arrived recently at the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. They wer..

conversation Article

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News Articles

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2021

Research Partnership and Social Impact

Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH)

2018

University of Melbourne award for excellence in team-based research

2012

Ludwig Leichhardt-Jubilee Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2008

The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Resources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), (Nick Thieberger- Project Manager) received the 2008 award

Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative

2021

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Principal Fellow Of Linguistics

Languages and Linguistics

Fellow

Australian Academy of the Humanities

Member

Australasian Association for Digital Humanities

Member

Humboldt Society

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Arts

La Trobe University

BA (Hons)

La Trobe University

Links

ORCID

0000-0001-8797-1018

Languages

English

French

Italian

Oceanian Pidgins and Creoles, nec

International Linkages

University of French Polynesia

France/Tahiti

CNRS, CREDO

France

Kulu Languages Institute

Solomon Islands

University of Hawaii at Manoa

United States