Arc Centre of Excellence for Dynamics of Language

Records of Pacific Languages: Where Are They and Who Can See Them

Nicholas Thieberger

2025-01-01

Australian researchers have a long tradition of working in the Pacific and Papua New Guinea. University-based linguists in particu..

The tip of the iceberg: Public good and the curation of humanities research records

Nicholas Thieberger

2025-01-01

We stand at a point in history in which we can expect to see more humanities research data lost than is preserved. Research data i..

The New Protectionism: Risk Aversion and Access to Indigenous Heritage Records

Nick Thieberger, Michael Aird, Clint Bracknell, Jason Gibson, Amanda Harris, Marcia Langton, Gaye Sculthorpe, Jane Simpson

2024-01-01

This article discusses the problems encountered in accessing archival Indigenous language records, both by Indigenous people looki..

Hypothetically Speaking: Ethics in linguistic fieldwork, a provocation

Simon MUSGRAVE, Nicholas Thieberger

2023-03-06

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

Phonetic evidence for phonotactic change in Nafsan (South Efate)

Rosemary Billington, Nick Thieberger, Janet Fletcher

2020-01-01

Nafsan, an Oceanic language of central Vanuatu, is notable for the complex phonotactic structures it exhibits compared to language..

A world of indigenous languages: Politics, pedagogies and prospects for language reclamation

TL Mc Carty, SE Nicholas, G Wigglesworth

2019-01-01

Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this..

Introduction: A world of indigenous languages – resurgence, reclamation, revitalization and resilience

TL Mc Carty, SE Nicholas, G Wigglesworth

2019-01-01

Morphology in Lexical-functional Grammar and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar

R Nordlinger, Louisa Sadler

2019-01-01

Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) are both lexicalist, non-transformational, constr..

Prominent possessor indexing in Gurindji

Oliver Bond, Felicity Meakins, Rachel Nordlinger

2019-01-01

In Gurindji (Ngumpin-Yapa; Australia) bound forms that index the morphosyntactic features of predicate arguments can also index po..

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

2019-01-01

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

Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth The Transition from Home to School

J Simpson, J Vaughan, G Wigglesworth

2018-10-24

This book explores the experiences of Indigenous children and young adults around the world as they navigate the formal education ..

Building Speech Recognition Systems for Language Documentation: The CoEDL Endangered Language Pipeline and Inference System (ELPIS)

Ben Foley, Josh Arnold, Rolando Coto-Solano, Gautier Durantin, Ellison Mark, Daan van Esch, Scott Heath, František Kratochvíl, Zara Maxwell-Smith, David Nash, Ola Olsson, Mark Richards, Nay San, Hywel Stoakes, N Thieberger, Janet Wiles

2018-08-30

Machine learning has revolutionised speech technologies for major world languages, but these technologies have generally not been ..

6th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU 2018)

2018-01-01

Acoustic correlates of prominence in Nafsan

R Billington, Janet Fletcher, Nick Thieberger, Ben Volchok

2018-01-01

Though Oceanic languages are often described as preferring primary stress on penultimate syllables, many different patterns have b..

Code-Switching or Code-Mixing? Tiwi Children's Use of Language Resources in a Multilingual Environment

Aidan Wilson, Peter Hurst, Gillian Wigglesworth

2018-01-01

This chapter analyses the language used by children on the Tiwi Islands with reference to current theories around bilingualism and..

Going to School in a Different World

Gillian Wigglesworth, Jane Simpson

2018-01-01

School is a turning point for most children—a time when they leave their preschool years and embark on several years of schooling...

Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field

AL Berez-Kroeker, L Gawne, SS Kung, BF Kelly, T Heston, G Holton, P Pulsifer, DI Beaver, S Chelliah, S Dubinsky, RP Meier, N Thieberger, K Rice, AC Woodbury

2018-01-01

This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represen..

Research Methods in Recording Oral Tradition: Choosing Between the Evanescence of the Digital or the Senescence of the Analog

Nick Thieberger

2018-01-01

In this chapter I present methods for creating proper research data so that it can be archived and re-used in future, with a focus..

Tools and technology for language documentation

Keren Rice, Nick Thieberger

2018-01-01

Unlocking the archives

Linda Barwick, Nick Thieberger

2018-01-01

The popular expression ‘locked in the archive’ suggests that items are impossible to find and access once they are archived. Benef..

German Ethnography in Australia

2017-09-21

What remains to be done: Exposing invisible collections in the other 7,000 languages and why it is a DH enterprise

Nick Thieberger

2017-06-01

For most of the world's 7,000 languages, there are few records available via the Internet. Recognizing this digital divide and the..

Developing collection management tools to create more robust and reliable linguistic data

Gary Holton, Kavon Hooshiar, Nick Thieberger

2017-01-01

From Small to Big Data: paper manuscripts to RDF triples of Australian Indigenous Vocabularies

Nick Thieberger, Conal Tuohy

2017-01-01

Language Assessment in Indigenous Contexts in Australia and Canada

G Wigglesworth, B Baker

2017-01-01

The increasing importance of performance testing in testing and assessment contexts has meant that the behavior of test tasks, how..

LD&C possibilities for the next decade

Nick Thieberger

2017-01-01

LD&C possibilities for the next decade

N Thieberger

2017-01-01

Missionary-induced language change, on the trail of the conditional in Nafsan, central Vanuatu

Nick Thieberger

2017-01-01

Unable to say too much about kano in Nafsan (South Efate)

N Thieberger

2017-01-01

Short vowels in L1 Aboriginal English spoken in Western Victoria

D LOAKES, J Fletcher, J Hajek, J Clothier, B Volchok

2016-12-16

Hyperarticulation in short intonational phrases in three Australian languages

S Graetzer, J Fletcher, J Hajek

2016-06-06

In Lindblom's Hyper- and Hypo-articulation (H & H) theory, speech varies between clear and less clear depending on the communicati..

Documentary Linguistics: Methodological Challenges and Innovatory Responses

N Thieberger

2016-02-01

Seeing the present situation, I think that, at the very least, it behooves us as scientists and as human beings to work responsibl..

Assessing Annotated Corpora as Research Output

Nick Thieberger, Anna Margetts, Stephen Morey, Simon Musgrave

2016-01-01

The increasing importance of language documentation as a paradigm in linguistic research means that many linguists now spend subst..

Australian Indigenous children’s early education in remote communities: how visible is ESL?

G WIGGLESWORTH, L gawne, G morales, S Poetsch, S Dixon

2016-01-01

Daisy Bates in the digital world

N Thieberger

2016-01-01

Intonational correlates of subject and object realisation in Mawng (Australian)

J FLETCHER, H Stoakes, R Singer, D Loakes

2016-01-01

A range of intonational devices can be used in the grammar of information and corrective focus marking in languages with relativel..

Language Documentation

N Thieberger

2016-01-01

Native prosodic systems and learning experience shape production of non-native tones

M Wu, J Fletcher, R Bundgaard-Nielsen, B Baker

2016-01-01

This study investigates how native prosodic systems and second language (L2) learning experience shape non-native tone production...

Phonetic differences between uptalk and question rises in two Antipodean English varieties

P Warren, J Fletcher

2016-01-01

Analysis of map task data for two varieties of English in which uptalk has long been documented (Australian and New Zealand) indic..

Phonotactic modeling of extremely low resource languages

A Shcherbakov, E Vylomova, N Thieberger

2016-01-01

This paper presents a novel approach to low resource language modeling. Here we propose a model for word prediction which is based..

The Daly languages project

R NORDLINGER, I Green, P Hurst

2016-01-01

Vowels in Wunambal, a Language of the North West Kimberley Region

D Loakes, T Carr, L Gawne, G Wigglesworth

2015-07-03

This paper presents an acoustic-phonetic analysis of vowel data from recordings of Wunambal, a Worrorran language of the Kimberley..

Inflection in Murrinh-Patha

R NORDLINGER

2015-05-15

Apprendre une langue dans les régions isolées de l’Australie aborigène

G WIGGLESWORTH

2015-01-01

PARADISEC: its history and future

N THIEBERGER, L Barwick, A Harris

2015-01-01

Research, records and responsibility: ten years of PARADISEC

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2015-01-01

It brings together the work of Australian and international scholars commemorating ten years of PARADISEC, and reflects on the dev..

The lexicography of indigenous languages in Australia and the Pacific

Nick Thieberger

2015-01-01

The Australia and Pacific region is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s languages. Wordlists of a few of these languages date ..