ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

Grant number: CE140100041 | Funding period: 2014 - 2021

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Abstract

Language is central to human existence and to the flow of information. The Centre will address the most critical questions about language: How do languages evolve? How different can languages be? How do our brains acquire and process them? How can technologies deal with the complexity and enormous variability of language in its central role in human information processing? What can Australia do to increase its linguistic abilities at a time of increasingly multilingual demands in trade and information? The Centre will also secure language heritage, develop new language technologies, connect policy with indigenous and migrant communities, and build strategies to help 1st and 2nd language lear..

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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..

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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..

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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

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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..

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Tools and technology for language documentation

Keren Rice, Nick Thieberger

2018-01-01

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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..

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German Ethnography in Australia

2017-09-21

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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

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Developing collection management tools to create more robust and reliable linguistic data

Gary Holton, Kavon Hooshiar, Nick Thieberger

2017-01-01

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From Small to Big Data: paper manuscripts to RDF triples of Australian Indigenous Vocabularies

Nick Thieberger, Conal Tuohy

2017-01-01

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LD&C possibilities for the next decade

N Thieberger

2017-01-01

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LD&C possibilities for the next decade

Nick Thieberger

2017-01-01

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

Nick Thieberger

2017-01-01

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

N Thieberger

2017-01-01

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Documentary Linguistics: Methodological Challenges and Innovatory Responses

Nick Thieberger

2016-02-01

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Daisy Bates in the digital world

N Thieberger

2016-01-01

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Language Documentation

N Thieberger

2016-01-01

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Phonotactic Modeling of Extremely Low Resource Languages

Andrei Shcherbakov, Ekaterina Vylomova, Nick Thieberger

2016-01-01

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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'gityemerri (Green 2003)), and is on..