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The Language Documentation Quartet

Simon Musgrave, Nicholas Thieberger

2021-01-01

<jats:p>As we noted in an earlier paper (Musgrave &amp; Thieberger 2012), the written description of a language is an essentially ..

Nasal coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok: An aerodynamic analysis

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..

Fundamental Frequency and Regional Variation in Lifou French

Catalina Torres, Janet Fletcher, Gillian Wigglesworth

2020-09-17

This study presents two experiments aimed at investigating tune-to-text alignment and pitch scaling in Lifou French, a variety spo..

Acoustic evidence for right-edge prominence in Nafsan

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..

Be Not Like the Wind: Access to Language and Music Records, Next Steps

Nicholas Thieberger, Amanda Harris

2020-01-01

Language archives play an important role in keeping records of the world’s languages safe. Accessible audio recordings held in arc..

Technology in Support of Languages of The Pacific: Neo-Colonial or Post-Colonial?

Nick Thieberger

2020-01-01

The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) has been digitising recordings of traditio..

Access to recordings in the languages of the Pacific

Nicholas Thieberger

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..

Habituality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia

Kilu von Prince, Ana Krajinović, Anna Margetts, Nick Thieberger, Valérie Guérin

2019-01-01

Our knowledge about tense, aspect and modality (TMA) in the Oceanic languages of Melanesia has so far been severely limited by the..

Language diversity in Indigenous Australia in the 21st century

Jane Simpson, Gillian Wigglesworth

2019-01-01

The diversity of language in Australia in pre-invasion times is well attested, with at least 300 distinct languages being spoken a..

Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction

Kersti Börjars, Rachel Nordlinger, Louisa Sadler

2019-01-01

A clear introduction to lexical-functional grammar (LFG), this outstanding textbook sets out a formal approach to the study of lan..

Making Meaning of Historical Papua New Guinea Recordings: Collaborations of Speaker Communities and the Archive

Amanda Harris, Steven Gagau, Jodie Kell, Nick Thieberger, Nick Ward

2019-01-01

PARADISEC’s PNG collections represent the great diversity in the regions and languages of PNG. In 2016 and 2017, in recognition of..

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..

Phrasing and constituent boundaries in Lifou French

Janet Fletcher, Catalina Torres, Gillian Wigglesworth

2019-01-01

Working at the interface: the Daly Languages project

Rachel Nordlinger, Ian Green, Peter Hurst

2019-01-01

In this paper we present the Daly Languages Project (www.dalylanguages.org), funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynami..

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 ..

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..

Acoustic correlates of the French Accentual Phrase in Lifou (New Caledonia)

C Torres-Orjuela, Janet Fletcher, G Wigglesworth

2018-01-01

This paper investigates the realization of the Accentual Phrase (AP) in Lifou French by bilingual speakers of Drehu and French. In..

From home to school in multilingual Arnhem Land: The development of Yirrkala School’s bilingual curriculum

G Morales, J Vaughan, M Ganambarr-Stubbs

2018-01-01

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

Pitch accent variation and realization in interactive discourse in Australian English

Janet Fletcher, Debbie Loakes

2018-01-01

This paper examines pre-nuclear and nuclear pitch accent variation and realization in map task interactions for Standard Australia..

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..

The 6th Intl. Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages

2018-01-01

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..

Australian English Pronunciation and Transcription

F Cox, J Fletcher

2017-01-01

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&amp;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

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

N Thieberger

2017-01-01

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..

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..

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

Andrei Shcherbakov, Ekaterina Vylomova, Nick Thieberger

2016-01-01

Inflection in Murrinh-Patha

R NORDLINGER

2015-05-15

Murrinh-Patha is a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Southern Daly family ( along with Ngan&#39;gityemerri (Green 2003)), and is on..

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

Constituency and grammatical relations in Australian languages

R Nordlinger

2014-01-01

Serial verbs in Wambaya

R Nordlinger

2014-01-01

The languages of Australia in linguistic research: context and issues

H Koch, R Nordlinger

2014-01-01