Chief Investigators

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

1. Alterations to dual stream connectivity predicts response to aphasia therapy following stroke

   Bibliography

   Kartik Iyer, Anthony Angwin, Sophia Van Hees, Katie McMahon, Michael Breakspear, and David Copland. 2020. "Alterations to dual stream connectivity predicts response to aphasia therapy following stroke." Cortex. 125: 30-43. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.12.017.

2. 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.

3. Conversational trouble and repair in dementia: Revision of an existing coding framework’

   Bibliography

   Rachel Sluis, Alana Campbell, Christina 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.

4. Source activity during emotion processing and its relationship to cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease

   Bibliography

   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.

5. Depression symptomatology correlates with event-related potentials in Parkinson’s disease: an affective priming study

   Bibliography

   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.

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

1. No L1 privilege in talker adaptation

   Bibliography

   Laurance Bruggeman, and Anne Cutler. 2020. "No L1 privilege in talker adaptation." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 23 (3): 681-693. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728919000646.

2. Listening in first and second language

   Bibliography

   Cutler, Anne, and Farrell, Janise. 2017. "Listening in first and second language". In The TESOL Encyclopedia of Language Teaching., New York: Wiley.

3. Universals of listening: Equivalent prosodic entrainment in tone and non-tone languages

   Bibliography

   Martin Ip, and Anne Cutler. 2020. "Universals of listening: Equivalent prosodic entrainment in tone and non-tone languages." Cognition. 202: doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104311.

4. Lexical manipulation as a discovery tool for psycholinguistic research

   Bibliography

   Laurence Bruggeman, and Anne Cutler. 2016. "Lexical manipulation as a discovery tool for psycholinguistic research". In Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 313-316. Parramatta, Australia.

5. Uptalk interpretation as a function of listening experience

   Bibliography

   Y Asano, C Yuan, A Grohe, A Weber, M Antoniou, and Anne Cutler. 2020. "Uptalk interpretation as a function of listening experience". In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, 735-739. Tokyo.

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

1. Factors affecting infant toy preferences: age, gender, experience, motor development, and parental attitude

   Bibliography

   L Liu, Paola Escudero, C Quattropani, and R Robbins. 2020. "Factors affecting infant toy preferences: age, gender, experience, motor development, and parental attitude." Infancy. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12352.

2. An acoustic phonetic description of Nungon vowels

   Bibliography

   Hannah Sarvasy, Jaydene Elvin, Weicong Li, and Paola Escudero. 2020. "An acoustic phonetic description of Nungon vowels." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Special Issue.. 147 (4): 2891-2900. doi: doi.org/10.1121/10.0001003.

3. Speech normalisation in EEG: an optimal paradigm?

   Bibliography

   Alba Tuninetti, Varghese Peter, and Paola Escudero. 2016. "Speech normalisation in EEG: an optimal paradigm?". In Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, 58-59. Shoal Bay, Australia.

4. Lebanese Arabic listeners find Australian English vowels easy to discriminate

   Bibliography

   Ronda Aboultaif, Jaydene Elvin, Daniel Williams, and Paola Escudero. 2016. "Lebanese Arabic listeners find Australian English vowels easy to discriminate". In Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 297-300. Parramatta, Australia.

5. The relationship between Australian English speakers’ non-native perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese vowels

   Bibliography

   Jaydene Elvin, Paola Escudero, Daniel Williams, and Catherine Best. 2016. "The relationship between Australian English speakers’ non-native perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese vowels". In Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 293-296. Parramatta, Australia.

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

1. 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: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.03.014.

2. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

   Bibliography

   Claire Bowern, and Bethwyn Evans. 2015. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

3. The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia

   Bibliography

   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.

4. Demographic correlates of language diversity

   Bibliography

   Greenhill, Simon, Bowern, Claire, and Evans, Bethwyn. 2015. "Demographic correlates of language diversity". In The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 555-578. London: Routledge.

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

1. The Semantics of Gender in Mayali: Partially Parallel Systems and Formal Implementation

   Bibliography

   Greville G. Corbett, Nicholas Evans, and Dunstan Brown. 2019. "The Semantics of Gender in Mayali: Partially Parallel Systems and Formal Implementation." Language. 95 (S1)

2. A Fragile Archipelago : What Linguistic Diversity Tells Us

   Bibliography

   Nicholas Evans. 2020. "A Fragile Archipelago : What Linguistic Diversity Tells Us." Okinawan Journal of Island Studies. 1: 65-89. doi: doi.org/20.500.12000/45773.

3. To compress or not to compress? A Finite-State approach to Nen verbal morphology

   Bibliography

   Saliha Muradoglu, Nicholas Evans, and Hanna Suominen. 2020. "To compress or not to compress? A Finite-State approach to Nen verbal morphology". In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, 207–213.

4. Typology and coevolutionary linguistics

   Bibliography

   Nicholas Evans. 2016. "Typology and coevolutionary linguistics." Linguistic Typology. 20 (3): 505-520. doi: 10.1515/lingty-2016-0023.

5. The McKenzie Massacre on Bentinck Island [English/Kayardild].

   Bibliography

   Evans, Nicholas. 2015. "The McKenzie Massacre on Bentinck Island [English/Kayardild].". 10. Gununa, Mornington Island: Mirndiyan Gununa Aboriginal Corporation..

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

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

   Bibliography

   Catalina Torres, and Janet Fletcher. 2020. "The alignment of F0 tonal targets under changes in speech rate in Drehu." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Special Issue.. 147 (4): 2947. doi: doi.org/10.1121/10.0001006.

2. Acoustic evidence for right-edge prominence in Nafsan

   Bibliography

   Rosey Billington, Janet Fletcher, Nick Thieberger, and Ben Volchok. 2020. "Acoustic evidence for right-edge prominence in Nafsan." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Special Issue.. 147 (4): 2829. doi: doi.org/10.1121/10.0000995.

3. An acoustic phonetic analysis of intonational prominence in two Australian languages

   Bibliography

   Janet Fletcher, and Nicholas Evans. 2002. "An acoustic phonetic analysis of intonational prominence in two Australian languages." Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 32 (2): 123–140. doi: 10.1017/s0025100302001019.

4. Tonal alignment in Mayali.

   Bibliography

   Judith Bishop, Janet Fletcher, and Nicholas Evans. 1999. "Tonal alignment in Mayali.". In Proceedings of ICPhS14, 2371-2374.

5. Intonational Downtrends in Mayali

   Bibliography

   Janet Fletcher, and Nicholas Evans. April 2000. "Intonational Downtrends in Mayali." Australian Journal of Linguistics. 20 (1): 23–38. doi: 10.1080/07268600050003346.

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

1. Indigenous Linguistic & Cultural Heritage Ethics Policy

   Bibliography

   Nick Thieberger, and Caroline Jones. 2019. Indigenous Linguistic & Cultural Heritage Ethics Policy. ACT : ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.

2. Bilingualism, language shift and the corresponding expansion of spatial cognitive systems

   Bibliography

   Felicity Meakins, Caroline Jones, and Cassandra Algy. 2015. "Bilingualism, language shift and the corresponding expansion of spatial cognitive systems." Language Sciences. 54: 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2015.06.002.

3. F4, a simple interface for efficient annotation

   Bibliography

   Caroline Jones, and Amit German. 2016. "F4, a simple interface for efficient annotation." Language Documentation & Conservation. 10: 347-355.

4. 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: 10.1080/19404158.2014.891530.

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

1. Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? The direction of case syncretisms

   Bibliography

   Felicity Meakins, Samantha Disbray, and Jane Simpson. 2020. "Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? The direction of case syncretisms." Morphology. 30 (2) doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-020-09357-3.

2. Holding the mirror up to converted language: Two grammars, one lexicon

   Bibliography

   Felicity Meakins, and Rob Pensalfini. 2020. "Holding the mirror up to converted language: Two grammars, one lexicon." nternational Journal of Bilingualism. doi: doi: 10.1177/1367006920922461.

3. Fickle fricatives: Fricative and stop perception in Gurindji Kriol, Roper Kriol, and Standard Australian English

   Bibliography

   Jesse Stewart, Felicity Meakins, Cassandra Algy, Thomas Ennever, and Angelina Joshua. 2020. "Fickle fricatives: Fricative and stop perception in Gurindji Kriol, Roper Kriol, and Standard Australian English." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Special Issue.. 147 (4): 2766. doi: doi.org/10.1121/10.0000991.

4. In press: Morphological overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol

   Bibliography

   Meakins, Felicity, and Wilmoth, Sasha. "In press: Morphological overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol". In Morphological Complexity, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

5. Language endangerment: a multidimensional analysis of risk factors

   Bibliography

   Lindell Bromham, Xia Hua, Cassandra Algy, and Felicity Meakins. 2020. "Language endangerment: a multidimensional analysis of risk factors." Journal of Language Evolution. 5 (1): 75-91. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa002.

Rachel Nordlinger is the Director of the Research Unit for Indigenous Language in the School of Languages and Linguistics. Rachel’s research centres around the description and documentation of Australia's indigenous languages, and she has worked with the Bilinarra, Wambaya, Gudanji, Murrinhpatha and Marri Ngarr communities to record and preserve their traditional languages. She has also published on syntactic and morphological theory, and in particular the challenges posed by the complex grammatical structures of Australian Aboriginal languages. She is the author of numerous academic articles in international journals, and five books, including A Grammar of Wambaya (Pacific Linguistics, 1998), Constructive Case: Evidence from Australian languages (CSLI Publications, 1998) and A Grammar of Bilinarra (Mouton de Gruyter, 2014, coauthored with Dr. Felicity Meakins). She is co-editor (with Harold Koch) of The Languages and Linguistics of Australia (Mouton de Gruyter, 2014).

Recent Publications

1. In press: Input and Child Directed Speech in Australian Aboriginal Communities

   Bibliography

   Davidson, Lucinda, Kelly, Barbara, Wigglesworth, Gillian, and Nordlinger, Rachel. "In press: Input and Child Directed Speech in Australian Aboriginal Communities". In Handbook of Australian Languages, OUP.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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 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

1. Epistemic authority, triadic engagement and participant transposition

   Bibliography

   Alan Rumsey. 2016. "Epistemic authority, triadic engagement and participant transposition". Stockholm, Sweden.

2. Ku Waru Clause Chaining and the Acquisition of Complex Syntax

   Bibliography

   Alan Rumsey, Lauren Reed, and Francesca Merlan. 2020. "Ku Waru Clause Chaining and the Acquisition of Complex Syntax." Frontiers in Communication. 5: doi: doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2020.00019.

3. Getting the story straight: Language fieldwork using a narrative problem-solving task

   Bibliography

   Lila San Roque, Lauren Gawne, Darja Hoenigman, Julia Colleen Miller, Alan Rumsey, Stef Spronck, Alice Carroll, and Nicholas Evans. 2012. "Getting the story straight: Language fieldwork using a narrative problem-solving task." Language Documentation & Conservation. 6: 135–173.

4. 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.

5. Intersubjectivity and engagement in Ku Waru

   Bibliography

   Alan Rumsey. 2019. "Intersubjectivity and engagement in Ku Waru." Open Linguistics. 5: 49-68.

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

1. Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? The direction of case syncretisms

   Bibliography

   Felicity Meakins, Samantha Disbray, and Jane Simpson. 2020. "Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? The direction of case syncretisms." Morphology. 30 (2) doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-020-09357-3.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. 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.

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

1. Review of Billy Griffiths’s Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia

   Bibliography

   Kim Sterelny. 2020. "Review of Billy Griffiths’s Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia." Australian Journal of Biography and History. (3): 163-166.

2. Demography and Cultural Complexity

   Bibliography

   Kim Sterelny. 2020. "Demography and Cultural Complexity." Synthese. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02587-2.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

1. Technology in support of languages of the Pacific: neo-colonial or post-colonial?

   Bibliography

   Nick Thieberger. 2020. "Technology in support of languages of the Pacific: neo-colonial or post-colonial?." Asian-European Music Research Journal. 5 (3): 17-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.30819/aemr.

2. Acoustic evidence for right-edge prominence in Nafsan

   Bibliography

   Rosey Billington, Janet Fletcher, Nick Thieberger, and Ben Volchok. 2020. "Acoustic evidence for right-edge prominence in Nafsan." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Special Issue.. 147 (4): 2829. doi: doi.org/10.1121/10.0000995.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

1. Australia Speaks 2020 App (http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/sydney-speaks/sydney-speaks-apps/australia-speaks-2020/)

   Bibliography

   Catherine Travis, Cale Johnstone, and Simon Gonzalez. 2020. Australia Speaks 2020 App (http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/sydney-speaks/sydney-speaks-apps/australia-speaks-2020/).

2. Sydney Speaks App (http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/sydney-speaks/sydney-speaks-apps/sydney-speaks-online-app/)

   Bibliography

   Catherine Travis, Cale Johnstone, and James Grama. 2017. "Sydney Speaks App (http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/sydney-speaks/sydney-speaks-apps/sydney-speaks-online-app/)." 'This is a Voice' exhibition.

3. Australian English over time: Using sociolinguistic analysis to inform dialect coaching

   Bibliography

   Benjamin Purser, James Grama, and Catherine Travis. 2020. "Australian English over time: Using sociolinguistic analysis to inform dialect coaching." Voice and Speech Review. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/23268263.2020.1750791.

4. Comparing the performance of forced aligners used in sociophonetic research

   Bibliography

   Simon Gonzalez, James Grama, and Catherine Travis. 2020. "Comparing the performance of forced aligners used in sociophonetic research." Linguistics Vanguard. 6 (1) doi: doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0058.

5. Using forced alignment for sociophonetic research on a minority language

   Bibliography

   Danielle Barth, James Grama, Simon Gonzalez, and Catherine Travis. 2020. "Using forced alignment for sociophonetic research on a minority language." University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. 25 (2)

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

1. Sign Phonological Parameters Modulate Parafoveal Preview Effects in Deaf Readers

   Bibliography

   Philip Thierfelder, Gillian Wigglesworth, and G Tang. 2020. "Sign Phonological Parameters Modulate Parafoveal Preview Effects in Deaf Readers." Cognition. 201:

2. Responding to a TOEFL iBT integrated speaking task: mapping task demands and test-takers’ use of stimulus content

   Bibliography

   Kellie Frost, Joshua Clothier, Annemiek Huisman, and Gillian Wigglesworth. 2020. "Responding to a TOEFL iBT integrated speaking task: mapping task demands and test-takers’ use of stimulus content." Language Testing. 37 (1): 133-155. doi: doi/10.1177/0265532219860750.

3. In press: Input and Child Directed Speech in Australian Aboriginal Communities

   Bibliography

   Davidson, Lucinda, Kelly, Barbara, Wigglesworth, Gillian, and Nordlinger, Rachel. "In press: Input and Child Directed Speech in Australian Aboriginal Communities". In Handbook of Australian Languages, OUP.

4. The nature of negotiations in face-to-face versus computer-mediated communication in pair interactions

   Bibliography

   Gillian Wigglesworth, Amir Rouhshad, and Neomy Storch. 2016. "The nature of negotiations in face-to-face versus computer-mediated communication in pair interactions." Language Teaching Research. 20 (4): 514-534. doi: 10.1177/1362168815584455.

5. Australian Indigenous children’s early education in remote communities: how visible is ESL?

   Bibliography

   Gawne, Lauren, Wigglesworth, Gillian, and Morales, Gemma. 2016. "Australian Indigenous children’s early education in remote communities: how visible is ESL?". In Early Childhood Education in English to Speakers of Other Languages., UK: British Council.

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

1. Functional Knowledge Requirements for Interactive Task Learning

   Bibliography

   Wray, Robert, Taatgen, Niels, Lebiere, Christian, Pastra, Katerina, Pirolli, Peter, Rosenbloom, Paul, Scheutz, Matthias, Stewart, Terrance, and Wiles, Janet. 2019. "Functional Knowledge Requirements for Interactive Task Learning". In Interactive Task Learning: Humans, Robots, and Agents Acquiring New Tasks through Natural Interactions, 19–52. Cambridge: MIT Press.

2. Children's Expectations and Strategies in Interacting with a Wizard of Oz Robot

   Bibliography

   Janet Wiles, Scott Heath, Peter Worth, Kristyn Hensby, Ben Matthews, Marie Boden, Arafeh Karami, Jason Weigal, Jonathon Taufatofua, and Paul Pounds. 2015. "Children's Expectations and Strategies in Interacting with a Wizard of Oz Robot". In OzCHI '15: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction, 608–612. Parkville, VIC Australia.

3. Preschool children overimitate robots, but do so less than they overimitate humans

   Bibliography

   Kristyn Sommer, Rebecca Davidson, Kristy Armitage, Virginia Slaughter, Janet Wiles, and Mark Nielsen. 2020. "Preschool children overimitate robots, but do so less than they overimitate humans." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 191: 104702. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104702.

4. 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.

5. 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.