Rebecca Defina

Acquisition of Pitjantjatjara clause chains

Rebecca Defina

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Psychology

In Pitjantjatjara, a central Australian Indigenous language, speakers typically describe sequences of actions using clause chainin..

Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary

Cliff Goddard, Rebecca Defina

Book  |  2020

Pitjantjatjara and Yanunytjatjara are two neighbouring dialects of the Western Desert language. They are spoken over a wide area o..

Scaling processes of clause chains in Pitjantjatjara

Rebecca Defina, Catalina Torres, Hywel Stoakes

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of Interspeech 2020

Clause chains are a syntactic strategy for combining multiple clauses into a single unit. They are reported in many languages, inc..

Pitjantjatjara language change: some observations and recommendations

Makinti Minutjukur, Katrina Tjitayi, Umatji Tjitayi, Rebecca Defina

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL STUDIES

Pitjantjatjara is often regarded as a robust language with more than 3000 speakers, including children, across a range of communit..

Tense, aspect and mood in Avatime

Rebecca Defina

Journal article  |  2018  |  Afrika und Ubersee

The Ghana-Togo Mountain languages are a typologically distinct group of languages within the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo languag..

DO SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS DESCRIBE SINGLE EVENTS? A STUDY OF CO-SPEECH GESTURES IN AVATIME

Rebecca Defina

Journal article  |  2016  |  Language

Serial verb constructions have often been said to refer to single conceptual events. However, evidence to support this claim has b..

Events in language and thought: The case of serial verb constructions in Avatime

R DEFINA

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2016

Events occur all around us in continuous streams of activity, yet we think and talk about them in terms of discrete units. These u..

Serial verb constructions and their subtypes in Avatime

Rebecca Defina

Journal article  |  2016  |  Studies in Language

This paper presents a description of Avatime serial verb constructions (SVCs), their properties, functions, and subtypes. Such a d..

Vision verbs dominate in conversation across cultures, but the ranking of non-visual verbs varies

Lila San Roque, Kobin H Kendrick, Elisabeth Norcliffe, Penelope Brown, Rebecca Defina, Mark Dingemanse, Tyko Dirksmeyer, Nj Enfield, Simeon Floyd, Jeremy Hammond, Giovanni Rossi, Sylvia Tufvesson, Saskia van Putten, Asifa Majid

Journal article  |  2015  |  Cognitive Linguistics

To what extent does perceptual language reflect universals of experience and cognition, and to what extent is it shaped by particu..

Review of Arbil: Free Tool for Creating, Editing, and Searching Metadata

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Journal article  |  2014  |  Language Documentation and Conservation

Arbil (Withers 2012) is a free Java-based software program for creating and editing metadata. It was created by Peter Withers, of ..