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Email

racheln@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor in Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics
Education
PhD
Stanford University
Masters (Coursework)
Stanford University
Masters (Research)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0003-4126-8022

Prof Rachel Nordlinger

Professor in Linguistics
School of Languages and Linguistics

121 Scholarly works
20 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Serial verbs in Australian Indigenous languages
    DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2025.2590768
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Real-time thematic role assignment in Pitjantjatjara: an eye-tracking study
    DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2025.2593904
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Word order flexibility in Pitjantjatjara
    DOI: 10.22459/pv.2025.16
  • 2025

    Journal article

    How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama-Nyungan, Australia)
    DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70087
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Incremental processing in a polysynthetic language (Murrinhpatha)
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106075
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    How Free Is Free?: Word Order in Australian Indigenous Languages
  • 2019

    Research Contracts

    Western Desert Verbal Arts Project
Rachel Nordlinger

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2024
The University of Melbourne
2017
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    An acquisition sketch of polysynthetic verbal morphology in Murrinhpatha
    DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2025.2508863
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Negation in Murrinhpatha
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Language and Knowledge
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    From collection to engagement: Indigenous language research at the University of Melbourne
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    LFG and Australian languages
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10185998

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2014

    Internal Research Grant

    Arc Centre of Excellence for Dynamics of Language - Matching Contribution
  • 2014

    Internal Research Grant

    Arc Centre of Excellence for Dynamics of Language - Matching Contribution
  • 2014

    Internal Research Grant

    Arc Centre of Excellence for Dynamics of Language - Matching Contribution

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