Grant number: CE140100041 | Funding period: 2014 - 2022
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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..
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..
D Loakes, J Clothier, J Hajek, J Fletcher
2024-09-01
This study involves a perceptual categorization task for Australian English, designed to investigate regional and social variation..
2024-01-01
Keeping Time: Dialogues on music and archives in Honour of Linda Barwick explores current issues in ethnomusicology and the archiv..
Nick Thieberger, Michael Aird, Clint Bracknell, Jason Gibson, Amanda Harris, Marcia Langton, Gaye Sculthorpe, Jane Simpson
This article discusses the problems encountered in accessing archival Indigenous language records, both by Indigenous people looki..
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 ..
Nick Thieberger, Linda Barwick
2023-01-01
In this paper, we illustrate the maintenance of archaic forms of Nafsan (a language spoken in Efate, Vanuatu) in song, and take on..
In this paper I address the following research questions in the context of having built a research data repository to safeguard cu..
Catalina Torres, Janet Fletcher, Gillian Wigglesworth
2022-12-01
This study presents two experiments aimed at investigating tune-to-text alignment and pitch scaling in Lifou French, a variety spo..
D Loakes
2022-06-14
The transcription of covert recordings used as evidence in court is a huge issue for forensic linguistics. Covert recordings are t..
Nick Thieberger, Amanda Harris
2022-04-04
In this paper we discuss the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), a research repos..
Nicholas Thieberger, Ana Krajinovic, Rosey Billington, Gray Kaltap ̃au, Lionel Emil
2022-01-01
Nicholas Thieberger, Members of the Erakor Community
2021-01-01
This is a dictionary of Nafsan, the language spoken in Vanuatu in the south of Efate Island in the villages of Erakor, Pango, and ..
J Vernaudon, N Thieberger, T Bambridge, T Parent
Indigenous knowledge is intimately linked to Oceanic languages and to oral or written texts produced in these languages. Primary r..
Nicholas Thieberger, Amanda Harris
Being home to over a quarter of the world’s languages, the Pacific is a particularly good place to focus on how language records c..
Nick Thieberger
Simon Musgrave, Nicholas Thieberger
<jats:p>As we noted in an earlier paper (Musgrave & Thieberger 2012), the written description of a language is an essentially ..
Hywel M Stoakes, Janet M Fletcher, Andrew R Butcher
2020-12-01
Bininj Kunwok (BKw), a language spoken in Northern Australia, restricts the degree of anticipatory nasalization, as suggested by p..
Rosemary Billington, Janet Fletcher, Nick Thieberger, Ben Volchok
2020-01-01
Oceanic languages are often described as preferring primary stress on penultimate syllables, but detailed surveys show that many d..
Language archives play an important role in keeping records of the world’s languages safe. Accessible audio recordings held in arc..
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) has been digitising recordings of traditio..
2019-01-01
With over a quarter of the world’s languages the Pacific is a particularly good place to focus on how language records can be made..
Kilu von Prince, Ana Krajinović, Anna Margetts, Nick Thieberger, Valérie Guérin
Our knowledge about tense, aspect and modality (TMA) in the Oceanic languages of Melanesia has so far been severely limited by the..
J Simpson, G Wigglesworth
The diversity of language in Australia in pre-invasion times is well attested, with at least 300 distinct languages being spoken a..
Kersti Börjars, Rachel Nordlinger, Louisa Sadler
A clear introduction to lexical-functional grammar (LFG), this outstanding textbook sets out a formal approach to the study of lan..
Amanda Harris, Steven Gagau, Jodie Kell, Nick Thieberger, Nick Ward
PARADISEC’s PNG collections represent the great diversity in the regions and languages of PNG. In 2016 and 2017, in recognition of..
R Nordlinger, Louisa Sadler
Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) are both lexicalist, non-transformational, constr..
Janet Fletcher, Catalina Torres, Gillian Wigglesworth
Rachel Nordlinger, Ian Green, Peter Hurst
In this paper we present the Daly Languages Project (www.dalylanguages.org), funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynami..
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 ..
2018-01-01
R Billington, Janet Fletcher, Nick Thieberger, Ben Volchok
Though Oceanic languages are often described as preferring primary stress on penultimate syllables, many different patterns have b..
C Torres-Orjuela, Janet Fletcher, G Wigglesworth
This paper investigates the realization of the Accentual Phrase (AP) in Lifou French by bilingual speakers of Drehu and French. In..
Janet Fletcher, Debbie Loakes
This paper examines pre-nuclear and nuclear pitch accent variation and realization in map task interactions for Standard Australia..
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
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represen..
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..
Keren Rice, Nick Thieberger
Linda Barwick, Nick Thieberger
The popular expression ‘locked in the archive’ suggests that items are impossible to find and access once they are archived. Benef..
Felicity Cox, Janet Fletcher
2017-10-04
2017-09-21
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..
Nick Thieberger, Caroline Jones
2017-01-01
A significant part of the Centre’s research is reliant on the participation of indigenous communities in Australia and the Asia-Pa..
Gary Holton, Kavon Hooshiar, Nick Thieberger
Nick Thieberger, Conal Tuohy
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..
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..
This document provides an overview of the main points arising from discussion at the Language Documentation Tools and Methods Summ..
A Shcherbakov, E Vylomova, N Thieberger
This paper presents a novel approach to low resource language modeling. Here we propose a model for word prediction which is based..
R NORDLINGER
2015-05-15
N THIEBERGER, L Barwick, A Harris
2015-01-01
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It brings together the work of Australian and international scholars commemorating ten years of PARADISEC, and reflects on the dev..
The Australia and Pacific region is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s languages. Wordlists of a few of these languages date ..
R Nordlinger
2014-01-01
H Koch, R Nordlinger