Dr Rebecca Defina
ARC DECRA Research Fellow
School of Languages and Linguistics
26 Scholarly works
2 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2025
Journal article
Duration Is Not a Reliable Indicator for Anticipating Event Boundaries
DOI: 10.1007/s42113-025-00243-x2025
Journal article
Children’s verbal inflection development in Pitjantjatjara: An acquisition sketch
DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2025.25120142025
Journal article
A comparative study of child-directed language across five cultures based on data from the Acquisition Sketch Project
DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2025.25148252025
Journal article
Cultural practices within Indigenous Australian communities enhance mental health
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(25)00064-12024
Book Chapter
Linguistic fieldwork as team science
DOI: 10.1075/slcs.235.01def2022
Research grants (other domestic)
Learning to Think and Talk About Events in the APY Lands
2019
Internal Research Grant
A Guide for Documenting Language Development in Under-Studied Languages
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2024
Book Chapter
Linguistic fieldwork as team science
DOI: 10.1075/slcs.235.01def2024
Journal article
Dedicated comparatives aid comparisons of magnitude: a study with Pitjantjatjara-English bilinguals
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.14187972023
Journal article
Analyzing polysemiosis: Language, gesture, and depiction in two cultural practices with sand drawing
DOI: 10.1515/sem-2022-01022023
Book Chapter
A Grammatical Sketch of Avatime (Kwa, Niger-Congo, Ghana)
DOI: 10.1017/9781316418086.0302023
Journal article
Diverse research teams: A framework for research review
DOI: 10.1177/14707853221145845