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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 ..

The Typology of Reciprocal Constructions

R Nordlinger

2023-01-17

Reciprocal constructions involve a complex mapping of semantics onto morphosyntax, requiring multiple propositions to be overlaid ..

Bridging Australian Indigenous language learner’s guides with SLA materials development frameworks

Yu-Ting Chiang, Yun Zhao, Rachel Nordlinger

2022-08-18

The learner’s guide (LG) is a genre of pedagogical materials for Australian Indigenous languages, but LGs developed by field lingu..

Category Clustering and Morphological Learning

John Mansfield, Carmen Saldana, Peter Hurst, Rachel Nordlinger, Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel, Andrew Perfors

2022-02-01

Inflectional affixes expressing the same grammatical category (e.g., subject agreement) tend to appear in the same morphological p..

Prosodic phrasing, pitch range and word order variation in Murrinhpatha

Janet Fletcher, Evan Kidd, Hywel Stoakes, Rachel Nordlinger

2022-01-01

Like many Indigenous Australian languages, Murrinhpatha has flexible word order with no apparent configurational syntax. We analyz..

Positional dependency in Murrinhpatha: expanding the typology of non-canonical morphotactics

Rachel Nordlinger, John Mansfield

2021-01-27

Principles of morphotactics are a major source of morphological diversity amongst the world’s languages, and it is well-known that..

An LFG approach to Icelandic reciprocal constructions

Peter Hurst, Rachel Nordlinger

2021-01-01

Wambaya, Gudanji, Binbinka and Ngarnka Plants and Animals: Aboriginal biocultural knowledge from Gulf of Carpentaria and the Barkly Tablelands, north Australia.

Molly Nurlanyma Grueman, Minnie Niyamarrama Nimara, Mavis Bangarinya Hogan, Powder Bangarinji O'Keefe, Peggy Yarrburrngalina Mawson, Katie Banduluka Baker, Pompey Jack Warnbiyaji, Lynette Nurlanyma Hubbard, Gilbert Jackson Maanula, Jeffrey Heath, Rachel Nordlinger, Glenn Wightman

2021-01-01

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

R Nordlinger, Louisa Sadler

2019-12-13

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

From body part to applicative: Encoding ‘source’ in Murrinhpatha

Rachel Nordlinger

2019-10-01

Murrinhpatha (non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia) is typologically unusual in having a single applicative construction with the semantics..

50 Words project (https://50words.online)

Rachel Nordlinger, Nicholas Thieberger

2019-01-01

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..

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

Andrea L Berez-Kroeker, Lauren Gawne, Susan Smythe Kung, Barbara F Kelly, Tyler Heston, Gary Holton, Peter Pulsifer, David I Beaver, Shobhana Chelliah, Stanley Dubinsky, Richard P Meier, Nick Thieberger, Keren Rice, Anthony C 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

Possessor dissension: Agreement mismatch in Ngumpin-Yapa possessive constructions

R NORDLINGER, F Meakins

2017-06-01

In this article we describe a possessive construction in the Ngumpin-Yapa languages of Australia which has interesting implication..

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

LD&C possibilities for the next decade

N Thieberger

2017-01-01

LD&C possibilities for the next decade

Nick Thieberger

2017-01-01

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

Nick Thieberger

2017-01-01

The acquisition of Murrinhpatha (Northern Australia)

W Forshaw, L Davidson, B Kelly, R Nordlinger, G Wigglesworth, J Blythe

2017-01-01

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-m..

The languages of the Daly region (Northern Australia)

R Nordlinger

2017-01-01

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-m..

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

N Thieberger

2017-01-01

Leaders and Followers: Uptalk and speaker role in map tasks in New Zealand English and Australian English

P Warren, J FLETCHER

2016-12-30

Recent work (Warren & Fletcher 2016) has considered how the shapes of uptalk rises differ from those of question rises in two anti..

Documentary Linguistics: Methodological Challenges and Innovatory Responses

Nick 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..

Daisy Bates in the digital world

N Thieberger

2016-01-01

Language Documentation

N Thieberger

2016-01-01

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..

Inflection in Murrinh-Patha

R NORDLINGER

2015-05-15

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia A Comprehensive Guide

H Koch, R Nordlinger

2014-08-19

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and ..