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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 ..

Voice quality in Australian English

Debbie Loakes, Adele Gregory

2022-08-01

<jats:p> This study is an acoustic investigation of voice quality in Australian English. The speech of 33 Indigenous Australians (..

Phrase-level and edge marking in Drehu

Catalina Torres, Janet Fletcher

2022-06-07

This study investigates prosodic correlates of phrasing in Drehu, an Oceanic language from New Caledonia. The analysis is concerne..

Sentence planning and production in Murrinhpatha, an Australian 'free word order' language

Rachel Nordlinger, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, Evan Kidd

2022-06-01

Psycholinguistic theories are based on a very small set of unrepresentative languages, so it is as yet unclear how typological var..

Language naming in Indigenous Australia: a view from western Arnhem Land

Jill Vaughan, Ruth Singer, Murray Garde

2022-05-18

Language naming systems are local ways of organising diversity, yet the language names used by linguists are sometimes incommensur..

Community-Led Documentation of Nafsan (Erakor, Vanuatu)

Ana Krajinovic, Rosey Billington, Lionel Emil, Gray Kaltapau, Nick Thieberger

2022-01-01

We focus on a collaboration between community members and visiting linguists in Erakor, Vanuatu, aiming to build the capacity of c..

Recognising the SAE language learning needs of Indigenous primary school students who speak contact languages

Carly Steele, Gillian Wigglesworth

2021-12-21

Most Indigenous peoples live in urban and regional locations across Australia and no longer speak their traditional languages flue..

Ten years of Linguistics in the Pub

Lauren Gawne, Ruth Singer

2021-10-22

In December 2009 the first ‘Linguistics in the Pub’ event was held in Melbourne. For over a decade Linguistics in the Pub (LIP) ha..

Nafsan

Rosey Billington, Nick Thieberger, Janet Fletcher

2021-08-10

<jats:p>Nafsan (ISO 639-3: erk, Glottocode: sout2856), also known as South Efate, is a Southern Oceanic language of Vanuatu. It is..

They Talk Muṯumuṯu: Variable Elision of Tense Suffixes in Contemporary Pitjantjatjara

Sasha Wilmoth, Rebecca Defina, Debbie Loakes

2021-06-01

Vowel elision is common in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara connected speech. It also appears to be a locus of language change, ..

New insights into /el/-/AE l/ merging in Australian English

Penelope Schmidt, Chloe Diskin-Holdaway, Debbie Loakes

2021-04-21

A merger exists in Australian English in which /el/ is realized as [æl] for a number of speakers, particularly in Victoria. There ..

Inflectional predictability and prosodic morphology in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara

Sasha Wilmoth, John Mansfield

2021-03-26

Lexically stipulated suppletive allomorphy, such as that found in inflection class systems, makes wordforms unpredictable because ..

The Pacific Expansion: Optimizing phonetic transcription of archival corpora

Rosey Billington, Hywel Stoakes, Nick Thieberger

2021-01-01

For most of the world’s languages, detailed phonetic analyses across different aspects of the sound system do not exist, due in pa..

Dichotic listening is associated with phonological awareness in Australian aboriginal children with otitis media: A remote community-based study

Mridula Sharma, Amelia Darke, Gillian Wigglesworth, Katherine Demuth

2020-11-01

Recent literature has highlighted a link between hearing loss as a result of otitis media in the early years of life and impacted ..

Probability of Heritage Language Use at a Supportive Early Childhood Setting in Australia

Paola Escudero, Criss Jones Diaz, John Hajek, Gillian Wigglesworth, Eline Adrianne Smit

2020-07-16

Despite well-established research that documents the intellectual, linguistic, sociocultural and familiar benefits of early childh..

Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking

John Mansfield, Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel

2020-06-01

Recent research has revealed several languages (e.g. Chintang, Rarámuri, Tagalog, Murrinhpatha) that challenge the general expecta..

The alignment of F0 tonal targets under changes in speech rate in Drehu

Catalina Torres, Janet Fletcher

2020-04-01

This study investigates fundamental frequency alignment to segmental landmarks in Drehu, an Oceanic language. The authors present ..

Binaural processing and phonological awareness in Australian Indigenous children from the Northern Territory: A community based study

Mridula Sharma, Gillian Wigglesworth, Gemma Savage, Katherine Demuth

2020-01-01

OBJECTIVE: Research has found that otitis media (OM) is highly prevalent in Australian Indigenous children, and repeated bouts of ..

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..

Embodying kin-based respect in speech, sign, and gesture

Jennifer Green

2019-12-01

In Australian Indigenous societies the means for demonstrating kinship-based respect are rich and varied, and mastery of their ide..

Mara yurriku: Western Desert sign languages

Jennifer Green, Inge Kral, Elisabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Lauren Reed

2019-01-01

In the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of the Western Desert the phrase mara yurriku 'moving the hands' is used to describe communication by m..

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

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

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..

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..

Indigenous children's language: Acquisition, preservation and evolution of language in minority contexts Introduction

Barbara F Kelly, Evan Kidd, Gillian Wigglesworth

2015-10-01

Inflection in Murrinh-Patha

R NORDLINGER

2015-05-15