Ruth Singer

Why Don't Linguists Talk about Politics? Moving Forward on Language Endangerment—Together

R Singer

Journal article  |  2020  |  American Anthropologist

This section features linguistic anthropologists who workin Indigenous- and endangered-language contexts, one ofwhich (Davis) is I..

Why Don't Linguists Talk about Politics? Moving Forward on Language Endangerment-Together

Ruth Singer

Journal article  |  2020  |  AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

Davis and Roche highlight the issues that arise when we try to discuss endangered languages without paying due attention totheir h..

CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database

Seán G Roberts, Anton Killin, Angarika Deb, Catherine Sheard, Simon J Greenhill, Kaius Sinnemäki, José Segovia-Martín, Jonas Nölle, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Archie Humphreys-Balkwill, Hannah Little, Christopher Opie, Guillaume Jacques, Lindell Bromham, Peeter Tinits, Robert M Ross, Sean Lee, Emily Gasser, Jasmine Calladine, Matthew Spike, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Language Evolution

There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it chan..

The impact of national standardized literacy and numeracy testing on children and teaching staff in remote Australian Indigenous communities

S Macqueen, U Knoch, G Wigglesworth, R Nordlinger, R Singer, T McNamara, R Brickle

Journal article  |  2019  |  Language Testing

All educational testing is intended to have consequences, which are assumed to be beneficial, but tests may also have unintended, ..

Indigenous multilingualisms past and present

Jill Vaughan, Ruth Singer

Journal article  |  2018  |  Language and Communication

A small speech community with many small languages: The role of receptive multilingualism in supporting linguistic diversity at Warruwi Community (Australia)

Ruth Singer

Journal article  |  2018  |  LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION

At Warruwi Community (pop. 400), nine very different Indigenous languages are still widely used, which is unusual in the contempor..

The wrong t-shirt: configurations of language and identity at Warruwi Community

Ruth Singer

Journal article  |  2018  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY

On June 22nd 1916, Reverend James Watson was brought to Warruwi in a canoe by a group of Maningpurru people. A re-enactment of thi..

Multiple uses for old and new recordings: perspectives from the multilingual community of Warruwi

Isabel O’Keeffe, Linda Barwick, Carolyn Coleman, David Manmurulu, Jenny Manmurulu, Janet Gardjilart Bumarda Mardbinda, Paul Naragoidj, Ruth Singer

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Communities in Control: Learning Tools and Strategies for Multilingual Endangered Language Communities. Proceedings of FEL XXI Alcanena 2017

Reflections on linguistic fieldwork in Australia

Ruth Singer

Book Chapter  |  2018

Beyond the classifier/gender dichotomy: The role of flexibility in a more integrated typology of nominal classification

R Singer

Book Chapter  |  2018

The entrenched nature of the gender/classifier dichotomy stands in the way of better typologies of nominal classification. How can..