Chief Investigators
Anthony Angwin
Anthony Angwin's research interests are centred around the investigation of neurogenic communication disorders.
Anthony is a speech pathologist and senior lecturer conducting research on psycholinguistics and neurogenic communication disorders. In particular, his research interests are focussed upon the investigation of communication impairments associated with Parkinson's disease, stroke and dementia.
Recent Publications
White noise facilitates new word learning
Bibliography
Anthony Angwin, Wayne Wilson, Pablo Ripolles, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Wendy Arnott, Robert Barry, Bonnie Cheng, Kimberley Garden, and David Copland. 2019. "White noise facilitates new word learning." Brain and Language. 199: doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104699.
Conversational trouble and repair in dementia: Revision of an existing coding framework’
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Rachel Sluis, Alana Campbell, Cristina Atay, Erin Conway, Zaneta Mok, Anthony Angwin, Helen Chenery, and Brooke-Mai Whelan. 2019. "Conversational trouble and repair in dementia: Revision of an existing coding framework’." Journal of Communication Disorders. 81: 105912.
Source activity during emotion processing and its relationship to cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease
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Kartik Iyer, Tiffany Au, Anthony Angwin, David Copland, and Nadeeka Dissanayaka. 2019. "Source activity during emotion processing and its relationship to cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease." Journal of Affective Disorders. 253: 327-335.
Depression symptomatology correlates with event-related potentials in Parkinson’s disease: an affective priming study
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Nadeeka Dissanayaka, Tiffany Au, Anthony Angwin, Kartik Iyer, John O'Sullivan, Gerard Byrne, Peter Silburn, Rodney Marsh, George Mellick, and David Copland. 2019. "Depression symptomatology correlates with event-related potentials in Parkinson’s disease: an affective priming study." Journal of Affective Disorders. 245: 897-904.
Semantic processing in children with cochlear implants: Evidence from event-related potentials
Bibliography
Nicola Bell, Anthony Angwin, Wendy Arnott, and Wayne Wilson. 2019. "Semantic processing in children with cochlear implants: Evidence from event-related potentials." Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 1-15. doi: DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2019.1592119.
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler studied languages and psychology at the Universities of Melbourne, Berlin and Bonn, taught German at Monash University, but embraced psycholinguistics as soon as it emerged as an independent sub-discipline, taking a PhD in the subject at the University of Texas. Postdoctoral fellowships at MIT and Sussex University followed, and from 1982 to 1993 a staff position at the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge. In 1993 she became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, a post she held till 2013. She was also professor of comparative psycholinguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen from 1995 to 2013, and, from 2006 to 2013, part-time Research Professor in MARCS Auditory Laboratories. In 2013 she took up a full-time position at the MARCS Institute.
Recent Publications
Interleaved lexical and audiovisual information can retune phoneme boundaries
Bibliography
Shruti Ullas, Elia Formisano, Frank Eisner, and Anne Cutler. 2020. "Interleaved lexical and audiovisual information can retune phoneme boundaries." Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01961-8.
No L1 privilege in talker adaptation
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Laurence Bruggeman, and Anne Cutler. 2019. "No L1 privilege in talker adaptation." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 1-13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728919000646.
The processing of linguistic prominence
Bibliography
Heather Kember, Jiyoun Choi, Anne Cutler, and Jenny Yu. 2019. "The processing of linguistic prominence." Language and Speech.
A criterial interlocutor tally for successful talker adaptation?
Bibliography
Anne Cutler, Ann Burchfield, and Mark Antoniou. 2019. "A criterial interlocutor tally for successful talker adaptation?". In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019,
Prosodic structural effects on coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Australian English in comparison to American English
Bibliography
Hyunjung Joo, Jiyoung Jang, Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho, and Anne Cutler. 2019. "Prosodic structural effects on coarticulatory vowel nasalization in Australian English in comparison to American English". In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019,
Paola Escudero
Paola Escudero is based at The MARCS Institute. Her main interest within CoEDL is on how the learning of phonetic detail takes place in multilingual communities. She collaborates with CI Kidd (Processing) on statistical learning in monolingual and bilingual infants, with CI Fletcher (Processing/Shape) on comparing Australian English accents, with AI Byrd (Technology Thread) and Postdoc Ellison (Shape) on an app that can be used to collect processing data in the field, and with PhD Kashima, Postdocs Ellison and Schokkin (Shape) on the phonetic description of PNG languages. Paola’s team is also collaborating with CIs Rumsey and Wigglesworth’s teams (Learning) on adapting laboratory methods for testing processing questions in the field, as well as with Postdoc Durantin (Evolution) on EEG analysis techniques that can be applied to individual language learners. Paola was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship which she started in 2017.
Recent Publications
Cross-Situational Learning of Phonologically Overlapping Words Across Degrees of Ambiguity
Bibliography
Karen Mulak, Haley Vlach, and Paola Escudero. 2019. "Cross-Situational Learning of Phonologically Overlapping Words Across Degrees of Ambiguity." Cognitive Science.
Infants use phonetic detail in speech perception and word learning when detail is easy to perceive
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Paola Escudero, and Marina Kalashnikova. 2019. "Infants use phonetic detail in speech perception and word learning when detail is easy to perceive." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 190: 104714. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104714.
Vowel acoustics of Nungon, Papua New Guinea
Bibliography
Hannah Sarvasy, Jaydene Elvin, Weicong Li, and Paola Escudero. 2019. "Vowel acoustics of Nungon, Papua New Guinea". In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019,
Multidimensional variation in English diphthongs
Bibliography
Daniel Williams, Jaydene Elvin, Paola Escudero, and Admantios Gafos. 2019. "Multidimensional variation in English diphthongs". In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019,
Non-native vowel perception in a $IAX task: The effects of acoustic distance.
Bibliography
Alba Tuninetti, James Whang, and Paola Escudero. 2019. "Non-native vowel perception in a $IAX task: The effects of acoustic distance.". In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019,
Bethwyn Evans
Bethwyn Evans’s research is focused on language change and language contact, and the role that linguistics plays in understanding our non-linguistic past. She predominantly works on Austronesian and Papuan languages in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Beth collaborates with Simon Greenhill on exploring the links between micro- and macro-level processes of language evolution.
Recent Publications
Maternal History of Oceania from Complete mtDNA Genomes: Contrasting Ancient Diversity with Recent Homogenization Due to the Austronesian Expansion
Bibliography
Ana Duggan, Bethwyn Evans, Francoise Friedlaender, Jonathan Friedlaender, George Koki, D Andrew Merriwether, Manfred Kayser, and Mark Stoneking. 2014. "Maternal History of Oceania from Complete mtDNA Genomes: Contrasting Ancient Diversity with Recent Homogenization Due to the Austronesian Expansion." American Journal of Human Genetics. 94 (5): 721-733. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.03.014.
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
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Claire Bowern, and Bethwyn Evans. 2015. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Abingdon, UK and New York, USA : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia
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Stebbins, Tonya, Evans, Bethwyn, and Terrill, Angela. 2017. "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". In The Languages and Linguistics of New Guinea: A Comprehensive Guide, 775-894. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Demographic correlates of language diversity
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Greenhill, Simon, Bowern, Claire, and Evans, Bethwyn. 2015. "Demographic correlates of language diversity". In The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics,
Nicholas Evans
Nicholas (‘Nick’) Evans is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. His central research focus is the diversity of human language and what this can tell us about the nature of language, culture, deep history, and the possibilities of the human mind. His 2010 book Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us sets out a broad program for the field’s engagement with the planet’s dwindling linguistic diversity. Nick has carried out fieldwork on several languages of Northern Australia and Papua New Guinea, particularly Kayardild, Bininj Gun-wok, Dalabon, Ilgar, Iwaidja, Marrku and Nen, with published grammars of Kayardild (1995) and Bininj Gun-wok (2003), and dictionaries of Kayardild (1992) and Dalabon (2004). His ARC Laureate Project The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity examines how microvariation at speech community level relates to macro-diversity of languages and language families, and he is leading a team in a cross-linguistic study of how diverse grammars underpin social cognition.
Recent Publications
Coevolutionary approaches to the science of language
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Evans, Nicholas. 2019. "Coevolutionary approaches to the science of language". In Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods, 195-213. Springer International.
Linguistic divergence under contact
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Evans, Nicholas. 2019. "Linguistic divergence under contact". In Historical Linguistics 2015. Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, 563-591. John Benjamins.
Australia and New Guinea: Sundered hemi-continents of sound
Bibliography
Nicholas Evans. 2019. "Australia and New Guinea: Sundered hemi-continents of sound". In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019,
Nen dictionary
Bibliography
Nicholas Evans. 2019. "Nen dictionary." Dictionaria. 8: 1-4997.
Waiting for the word: distributed deponency and the semantic interpretation of number in the Nen verb
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Evans, Nicholas. 2019. "Waiting for the word: distributed deponency and the semantic interpretation of number in the Nen verb". In Morphological Perspectives: Papers Honours of Greville G. Corbett, 100-123. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Janet Fletcher
Janet Fletcher is Professor of Phonetics in the School of Languages and Linguistics. She has held previous appointments at the University of Edinburgh, the Ohio State University, and Macquarie University. Her research interests include phonetic theory, laboratory phonology, prosodic phonology, articulatory and acoustic modelling of prosodic effects in various languages. She is currently working on phonetic variation, and prosody, and intonation in Indigenous Australian languages and has commenced projects on selected languages of Oceania. She is a member of the Research Unit for Indigenous Language in the School of Languages and Linguistics.
Recent Publications
Prosodically conditioned consonant duration in Djambarrpuyŋu
Bibliography
Kathleen Jepson, Janet Fletcher, and Hywel Stoakes. 2019. "Prosodically conditioned consonant duration in Djambarrpuyŋu." Special issue of Language and Speech: Prosodic prominence - a cross-linguistic perspective.
Acoustic correlates of the French Accentual Phrase in Lifou (New Caledonia)
Bibliography
Catalina Torress Orjuela, Janet Fletcher, and Gillian Wigglesworth. 2018. "Acoustic correlates of the French Accentual Phrase in Lifou (New Caledonia)". In Proceddings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 636-640.
Australian English: Pronunciation and Transcription
Bibliography
Felicity Cox, and Janet Fletcher. 2017. Australian English: Pronunciation and Transcription. Port Melbourne, Victoria : Cambridge University Press.
Leaders and Followers: Uptalk and speaker role in map tasks in New Zealand English and Australian English
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Janet Fletcher, and Warren Fletcher. 2016. "Leaders and Followers: Uptalk and speaker role in map tasks in New Zealand English and Australian English." New Zealand English Journal. 29-30: 77-93.
Can you t[æ]ll I’m from M[æ]lbourne? An overview of the DRESS and TRAP vowels before /l/ as a regional accent marker in Australian English
Bibliography
Deborah Loakes, John Hajek, and Janet Fletcher. 2017. "Can you t[æ]ll I’m from M[æ]lbourne? An overview of the DRESS and TRAP vowels before /l/ as a regional accent marker in Australian English." English Worldwide. 38 (1): 29-49. doi: 10.1075/eww.38.1.03loa.
Caroline Jones
Caroline Jones' research focuses on how we can increase the success and sustainability of Aboriginal language revitalization initiatives, how we can improve early language assessment and intervention, and what strategies support communication with elderly people. She is also interested in ways of making research more efficient and more accessible or participatory with new technology and is Deputy Leader of the CoEDL Future Technologies Thread.
Recent Publications
Indigenous Linguistic & Cultural Heritage Ethics Policy
Bibliography
Nick Thieberger, and Caroline Jones. Indigenous Linguistic & Cultural Heritage Ethics Policy. ACT : ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.
Bilingualism, language shift and the corresponding expansion of spatial cognitive systems
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Felicity Meakins, Caroline Jones, and Cassandra Algy. 2016. "Bilingualism, language shift and the corresponding expansion of spatial cognitive systems." Language Sciences. 54: 1-13. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2015.06.002.
F4, a simple interface for efficient annotation
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Caroline Jones, and Amit German. 2016. "F4, a simple interface for efficient annotation." Language Documentation & Conservation. 10: 347-355.
Pre-service teachers’ knowledge of language concepts: relationships to field experiences
Bibliography
Caroline Jones, and Deborah Tetley. 2014. "Pre-service teachers’ knowledge of language concepts: relationships to field experiences." Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties. 19 (1): 17-32. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19404158.2014.891530.
Felicity Meakins
Felicity Meakins specialises in the documentation of Australian languages in the Victoria River District in northern Australia and the effect of English on Indigenous languages. She has worked as a community linguist and academic, facilitating language revitalisation programs, consulting on Native Title claims and conducting research into Indigenous languages. This work has provided the basis for Case-Marking in Contact (Benjamins, 2011), Bilinarra, Gurindji and Malngin Plants and Animals (NT-LRM, 2012), Gurindji to English Dictionary (Batchelor Press, 2013), Bilinarra to English Dictionary (Batchelor Press, 2013), A Grammar of Bilinarra (with Rachel Nordlinger, Mouton, 2014), Kawarla: How to Make a Coolamon (Batchelor Press, 2015), Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation (edited with Carmel O'Shannessy, Mouton, 2016) and Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country (edited with Erika Charola, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2016).
Recent Publications
For the children...”: Aboriginal Australia, cultural access, and archival obligation
Bibliography
Croft, Brenda, Toussaint, Sandy, Meakins, Felicity, and McConvell, Patrick. 2019. "For the children...”: Aboriginal Australia, cultural access, and archival obligation". In Archival returns: Central Australia and beyond, 173-191. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Mudburra to English Dictionary
Bibliography
Rebecca Green, Jennifer Green, Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway, Felicity Meakins, David Osgarby, and Rob Pensalfini. 2019. Mudburra to English Dictionary. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press.
Morphology
Bibliography
Meakins, Felicity. 2019. "Morphology". In Language Contact: An International Handbook, 63-75. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Gender lender: Noun borrowings between Jingulu and Mudburra in northern Australia
Bibliography
Rob Pensalfini, and Felicity Meakins. 2019. "Gender lender: Noun borrowings between Jingulu and Mudburra in northern Australia." Journal of Language Contact. 12 (2): 444-482.
The birth of a new language does not favour simplification
Bibliography
Felicity Meakins, Xia Hua, Cassandra Algy, and Lindell Bromham. 2019. "The birth of a new language does not favour simplification." Language. 95 (2): 294-332.
Rachel Nordlinger
Rachel Nordlinger is the Director of the
Recent Publications
From body part to applicative: encoding ‘source’ in Murrinhpatha
Bibliography
Rachel Nordlinger. 2019. "From body part to applicative: encoding ‘source’ in Murrinhpatha." Linguistic Typology. 23 (3): 401-433.
Working at the interface: The Daly Languages Project
Bibliography
Nordlinger, Rachel, Green, Ian, and Hurst, Peter. 2019. "Working at the interface: The Daly Languages Project". In Archival returns in Central Australia and beyond, 193-216. Honolulu & Sydney: University of Hawai’i Press & Sydney University Press.
Morphology in LFG and HPSG
Bibliography
Nordlinger, Rachel, and Sadler, Louisa. 2019. "Morphology in LFG and HPSG". In The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory, London: Oxford University Press.
Morphology in LFG and HPSG
Bibliography
Sadler, Louisa, and Nordlinger, Rachel. 2019. "Morphology in LFG and HPSG". In Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory, 212-243. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Prominent possessor indexing in Gurindji
Bibliography
Bond, Oliver, Meakins, Felicity, and Nordlinger, Rachel. 2019. "Prominent possessor indexing in Gurindji". In Prominent internal possessors, 80-106. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Alan Rumsey
Alan Rumsey is a Professor of Anthropology in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU. His research fields are Highland New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia, with a focus on speech genres and relations among language, culture and intersubjectivity. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, a past president of the Australian Anthropological Society and the co-convenor of the ANU Pacific Institute. He is currently involved in collaboration with CoEDL Affiliate Francesca Merlan on a major research project on ‘Children’s Language Learning and the Development of Intersubjectivity’, for which he was funded by an ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award during 2013-16, and in collaboration with CoEDL Affiliate Lauren Reed on a study of a sign language in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea that is used in communication with deaf people.
Recent Publications
Sign Languages in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Bibliography
Reed, Lauren, and Rumsey, Alan. 2020. "Sign Languages in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands". In Sign language in Papua New Guinea: A Primary Sign Language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province, 141-184. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Intersubjectivity and engagement in Ku Waru
Bibliography
Alan Rumsey. 2019. "Intersubjectivity and engagement in Ku Waru." Open Linguistics. 5: 49-68.
Melanesia as a zone of linguistic diversity
Bibliography
Rumsey, Alan. 2019. "Melanesia as a zone of linguistic diversity". In The Melanesian World, 110-125. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis.
The sociocultural dynamics of indigenous multilingualism in northwestern Australia
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Alan Rumsey. 2018. "The sociocultural dynamics of indigenous multilingualism in northwestern Australia." Language & Communication. 62: 91-101.
The Sociocultural Dynamics of Indigenous Multilingualism in Northwestern Australia
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Alan Rumsey. 2018. "The Sociocultural Dynamics of Indigenous Multilingualism in Northwestern Australia." Language and Communication. 1-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2018.04.011.
Jane Simpson
Jane Simpson has carried out fieldwork on Indigenous Australian languages since 1979, and is Chair of Indigenous Linguistics at the ANU. Jane has worked collaboratively on numerous Indigenous language resources: the Warlpiri dictionary with Affiliate Mary Laughren; Ngaanyatjarra speech register corpus with postdoctoral fellow Inge Kral, and Affiliates Jenny Green and Lizzy Ellis; a Warumungu dictionary and corpus with postdoctoral fellow Samantha Disbray; and with Affiliates Rob Amery and Maryanne Gale on a Ngarrindjeri text corpus. She is also working with CI Gillian Wigglesworth on the language learning experience of Indigenous school children. As Chair of the CoEDL Education Sub-committee, she helps draw together HDR training and other education initiatives, which include the University Languages Portal of Australia.
Recent Publications
The Horwood Memorial Lecture: Learning and speaking First Nations Languages in Australia
Bibliography
Jane Simpson. 2019. "The Horwood Memorial Lecture: Learning and speaking First Nations Languages in Australia." Babel: Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers’ Associations. 54: 7-10.
Languages past and present
Bibliography
Simpson, Jane, McConvell, Patrick, and Thieberger, Nick. 2019. "Languages past and present". In Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, 76-85. Sydney: Pan Macmillan.
Pre-stopping in Arabana
Bibliography
Mark Harvey, Nay San, Margaret Carew,, Sydney Strangways, Jane Simpson, and Clara Stockigt. 2019. "Pre-stopping in Arabana." Australian Journal of Linguistics. 39 (4)
Census data on Australian Languages
Bibliography
Simpson, Jane, Angelo, Denise, Browne, Emma, Kral, Inge, Markham, Francis, O'Shannessy, Carmel, and Venn, Danielle. 2018. "Census data on Australian Languages". In Endangered languages and the land: Mapping landscapes of multilingualis, 115-120. London: FEL & EL Publishing.
Why women botanists outnumbered women linguists in nineteenth century Australia
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Kim Sterelny
Kim Sterelny's main research interests are Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Mind. He is the author of The Representational Theory of Mind and the co-author of Language and Reality (with Michael Devitt) and Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology (with Paul Griffiths). He is Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In addition to philosophy, Kim spends his time eating curries, drinking red wine, bushwalking and bird watching. Kim has been a Visiting Professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and at Cal Tech and the University of Maryland, College Park, in the USA.
Recent Publications
The Origins of Multi-Level Society
Bibliography
Kim Sterelny. 2019. "The Origins of Multi-Level Society." Topoi. 1-14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-019-09666-1.
Michael Devitt, Cultural Evolution and the Division of Linguistic Labour
Bibliography
Sterelny, Kim. 2019. "Michael Devitt, Cultural Evolution and the Division of Linguistic Labour". In Language and Reality From a Naturalistic Perspective: Themes From Michael Devitt, Springer.
Religion: Costs, Signals, and the Neolithic Transition
Bibliography
Kim Sterelny. 2019. "Religion: Costs, Signals, and the Neolithic Transition." Religion, Brain and Behavior. Special Issue Dec 2019: doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2019.1678513.
Afterwords: Hard problems, Tough Questions, Incremental Progress
Bibliography
Kim Sterelny. 2019. "Afterwords: Hard problems, Tough Questions, Incremental Progress." Topics in Cognitive Science. 1-18. doi: DOI: 10.1111/tops.12427.
Why Reason: Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber’s The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
Bibliography
Kim Sterelny. 2018. "Why Reason: Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber’s The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding." Mind and Language. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12182.
Nick Thieberger
Associate Professor Nicholas Thieberger has worked with speakers of Australian languages since the early 1980s. He established the Aboriginal language centre Wangka Maya in Port Hedland in the late 1980s, then worked at AIATSIS building the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive in the early 1990s. He wrote a grammar of South Efate, a language from central Vanuatu that was the first to link media to the analysis, allowing verification of examples used in analytical claims. In 2003 he helped establish PARADISEC, a digital archive of recorded ethnographic material and is now its Director. He is a co-founder of the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD) and in 2008 he established a linguistic archive at the University of Hawai’i. He is interested in developments in digital humanities methods and their potential to improve research practice and he is now developing methods for creation of reusable data sets from fieldwork on previously unrecorded languages. He is the Editor of the journal Language Documentation & Conservation. He is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Recent Publications
Public access to research data in language documentation: Challenges and possible strategies
Bibliography
Mandana Seyfeddinipur,, Felix Ameka, Bolton Lissant, Jonathan Blumtritt, Brian Carpenter, Hilaria Cruz, Sebastian Drude, Patience Epps, Vera Ferreira, Ana Vilacy Galucio, Brigit Hellwig, Oliver Hinte, Gary Holton, Dagmar Jung, Irmgarda Kasinskaite Buddeberg, Manfred Krifka, Susan Kung, Miyuki Monroig, Ayu’nwi Ngwabe Neba, Sebastian Nordhoff, Brigitte Pakendorf, Kilu von Prince, Felix Rau, Keren Rice, Michael Riessler, Vera Szoelloesi Brenig, Nick Thieberger, Paul Trilsbeek, Hein van der Voort, and Tony Woodbury. 2019. "Public access to research data in language documentation: Challenges and possible strategies." Language Documentation & Conservation. 13: 545-563.
Languages past and present
Bibliography
Simpson, Jane, McConvell, Patrick, and Thieberger, Nick. 2019. "Languages past and present". In Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, 76-85. Sydney: Pan Macmillan.
Building capacity for community-led documentation in Erakor, Vanuatu
Bibliography
Krajinovic, Ana, Billington, Rosey, Emil, Lionel, Kaltap̃au, Gray, and Thieberger, Nick. 2019. "Building capacity for community-led documentation in Erakor, Vanuatu". In Human language technologies as a challenge for computer science and linguistics — 2019, 185-189. Poznan: Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje.
Habituality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia
Bibliography
Kilu von Prince, Ana Krajinovic, Nick Thieberger, and Valerie Guerin. 2019. "Habituality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia." Language Typology and Universals. 72 (1) doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2019-0002.
Indigenous Linguistic & Cultural Heritage Ethics Policy
Bibliography
Nick Thieberger, and Caroline Jones. Indigenous Linguistic & Cultural Heritage Ethics Policy. ACT : ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.
Catherine Travis
Catherine Travis is Professor of Modern European Languages in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the ANU. Her work addresses questions related to language evolution at a micro level; she applies quantitative methods to probe the impact of linguistic and social factors on language variation and change in the speech community. In the Centre of Excellence, she leads the Sydney Speaks project, a sociolinguistic study of Australian English, examining the speech of Sydney-siders of diverse social backgrounds, recorded at different times, and born over a 100-year period (from the 1890s to the 1990s). A second project, in collaboration with PI Rena Torres Cacoullos (Penn State University), examines outcomes of language contact in a long-standing Spanish-English bilingual community in New Mexico, USA. A co-authored book deriving from this work, Bilingualism in the Community: Code-switching and Grammars in Contact, has been published by Cambridge University Press.
Recent Publications
Stress on I: Debunking unitary contrast accounts
Bibliography
Catherine Travis, and Rena Torres Cacoullos. 2014. "Stress on I: Debunking unitary contrast accounts." Studies in Language. 38 (2): 360-392.
Introduction
Bibliography
Travis, Catherine, Hajek, John, Nettelbeck, Colin, and Woods, Anya Lloyd. 2014. "Introduction". In Practices and Policies: Current Research in Languages and Cultures Education, 1-5. Melbourne, Australia: LCNAU.
Practices and Policies: Current Research in Languages and Cultures Education
Bibliography
Catherine Travis, John Hajek, Colin Nettelbeck, Elizabeth Beckmann, and Anya Lloyd Woods. 2014. Practices and Policies: Current Research in Languages and Cultures Education. Melbourne, Australia : LCNAU.
Prosody, priming and particular constructions: The patterning of English first-person singular subject expression in conversation
Bibliography
Rena Torres Cacoullos, and Catherine Travis. 2014. "Prosody, priming and particular constructions: The patterning of English first-person singular subject expression in conversation." Journal of Pragmatics. 63: 19-34.
Initiation, progression and conditioning of the short front vowel shift in Australian English
Bibliography
James Grama, Catherine Travis, and Simon Gonzalez. 2019. "Initiation, progression and conditioning of the short front vowel shift in Australian English". In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019,
Gillian Wigglesworth
Gillian Wigglesworth’s expertise is in first and second language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and multilingual settings. A major focus of her work is in remote Indigenous communities documenting children’s language learning at home and at school, together with CI Jane Simpson (Shape). She is collaborating with other Learning program members to ensure comparable data collection patterns in the acquisition projects taking place in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Her collaboration with CI Janet Wiles (Evolution) investigates the potential of using robots in remote communities for language development, and with Professor Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University, CI, Centre in Cognition and its Disorders) on assessing Indigenous children’s hearing to determine any relationship to phonological awareness development. She is a Deputy Director of the Research Unit for Indigenous Language and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne.
Recent Publications
Long term influence of recurrent otitis media on dichotic listening and phonological awareness in Aboriginal children from the Northern Territory
Bibliography
Mridula Sharma, Gillian Wigglesworth, Gemma Savage, and Katherine Demuth. 2020. "Long term influence of recurrent otitis media on dichotic listening and phonological awareness in Aboriginal children from the Northern Territory." International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 128: doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijporl.2019.109702.
A World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation
Bibliography
Teresa McCarty, Sheilah Nicholas, and GIllian Wigglesworth. 2019. A World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation. Bristol : Multilingual Matters.
Indigenous children’s language practices in Australia – a review of the literature
Bibliography
Disbray, Samantha, and Wigglesworth, Gillian. 2019. "Indigenous children’s language practices in Australia – a review of the literature". In Handbook on Minority Languages and communities, 357 - 382. Palgrave Macmillan.
An investigation of the impact of national standardized literacy and numeracy testing on children in remote Indigenous communities of Australia
Bibliography
Susy Macqueen, Ute Knoch, Gillian Wigglesworth, Rachel Nordlinger, Tim McNamara, and Rhianna Brickle. 2018. "An investigation of the impact of national standardized literacy and numeracy testing on children in remote Indigenous communities of Australia." Language Testing. doi: DOI: 10.1177/0265532218775758.
Teaching English as an additional language or dialect to young learners in Indigenous contexts
Bibliography
Steele, Carly, and Wigglesworth, Gillian. 2018. "Teaching English as an additional language or dialect to young learners in Indigenous contexts ". In Teaching young second language learners: Practices in different classroom contexts, Routledge.
Janet Wiles
Janet Wiles’ research involves bio-inspired computation in complex systems, with applications in cognitive science and biorobotics. She completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Sydney, a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychology at the University of Queensland, and served as faculty in the Cognitive Science program for 12 years. In 2003 she formed the Complex and Intelligent Systems research group at the University of Queensland where she has been Professor since 2006. She currently coordinates the UQ node of CoEDL, where her research focuses on social robots and language.
Recent Publications
The Challenges of Designing a Robot for a Satisfaction Survey: Surveying Humans Using a Social Robot
Bibliography
Scott Heath, Jacki Liddle, and Janet Wiles. 2019. "The Challenges of Designing a Robot for a Satisfaction Survey: Surveying Humans Using a Social Robot." International Journal of Social Robotics. 1-15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-019-00604-0.
In press: Determining the Number of Samples Required to Estimate Entropy in Natural Sequences
Bibliography
Andrew Back, Daniel Angus, and Janet Wiles. 2019. "In press: Determining the Number of Samples Required to Estimate Entropy in Natural Sequences." IEEE Transaction on Information Theory.
Toward the Development of SMART Communication Technology: Automating the Analysis of Communicative Trouble and Repair in Dementia
Bibliography
Brooke-Mai Whelan, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles, Helen Chenery, Erin Conway, David Copland, Christina Atay, and ANthony Angwin. 2018. "Toward the Development of SMART Communication Technology: Automating the Analysis of Communicative Trouble and Repair in Dementia." Innovation in Aging. 2 (3): igy034. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igy034.
Social semantic networks: Measuring topic management in discourse using a pyramid of conceptual recurrence metrics
Bibliography
Daniel Angus, and Janet Wiles. 2018. "Social semantic networks: Measuring topic management in discourse using a pyramid of conceptual recurrence metrics." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 28 (8): 085723. doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5024809.
Hello harlie: Enabling speech monitoring through chat-bot conversations
Bibliography
David Ireland, Christina Atay, Jacki Liddle, Dana Bradford, Helen Lee, Olivia Rushin, Thomas Mullins, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles, Simon McBride, and Adam Vogel. 2016. "Hello harlie: Enabling speech monitoring through chat-bot conversations". In Digital Health Innovation for Consumers, Clinicians, Connectivity and Community - Selected Papers from the 24th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2016, 55-60. Melbourne, Australia.
