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..

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 ..

Building capacity for community-led documentation in Erakor, Vanuatu

Ana Krajinović, Rosey Billington, Lionel Emil, Gray Kaltap̃au, Nick Thieberger

2019-01-01

Close collaboration between community members and visiting researchers offers mutual benefits, including opportunities for new res..

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..

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

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

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

Nasal aerodynamics and coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok: Smoothing Spline Analysis of Variance

H STOAKES, J Fletcher, AR Butcher

2016-12-06

Nasal phonemes are well represented within the lexicon of BininjKunwok.1 Thisstudyexaminesintervocalic,wordmedial nasals and repor..

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..

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