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. An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia

   Bibliography

   Rachel Sluis, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles, Andrew Back, Ting Ting Gibson, Jacki Liddle, Peter Worthy, David Copland, and Anthony Angwin. 2020. "An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia." American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317520939773.

2. Theta and gamma connectivity is linked with affective and cognitive symptoms in Parkinson's disease

   Bibliography

   Kartik Iyer, Tiffany Au, Anthony Angwin, David Copland, and Nadeeka Dissanayaka. 2020. "Theta and gamma connectivity is linked with affective and cognitive symptoms in Parkinson's disease." Journal of Affective Disorders. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.08.086.

3. 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.

4. Subcortical Contributions to Language

   Bibliography

   Copland, David, and Angwin, Anthony. 2019. "Subcortical Contributions to Language". In The Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics, New York: Oxford University Press.

5. The Suppression of Irrelevant Semantic Representations in Parkinson’s Disease

   Bibliography

   Megan Isaacs, Katie McMahon, Anthony Angwin, and David Copland. 2019. "The Suppression of Irrelevant Semantic Representations in Parkinson’s Disease." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 12: 511. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00511.

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. Cross-language data on five types of prosodic focus

   Bibliography

   Martin Ip, and Anne Cutler. May 2016. "Cross-language data on five types of prosodic focus". In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, Boston.

2. Processing advantages for focused words in Korean

   Bibliography

   Heather Kember, Jiyoun Choi, and Anne Cutler. June 2016. "Processing advantages for focused words in Korean". In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, Boston.

3. Language-specificity in speakers’ strategies of focus expression

   Bibliography

   Martin Ip, and Anne Cutler. July 2016. "Language-specificity in speakers’ strategies of focus expression". In Abstracts of Laboratory Phonology, Ithaca, New York.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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. Rapid learning of minimally different words in five- to six-year-old children: effects of acoustic salience and hearing impairment

   Bibliography

   Paola Escudero, Marcel Raymond Giezen, and Anne Baker. 21 May 2015. "Rapid learning of minimally different words in five- to six-year-old children: effects of acoustic salience and hearing impairment." Journal of Child Language. 43 (2): 310-337. doi: 10.1017/S0305000915000197.

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

   Bibliography

   Paola Escudero, Criss Jones Diaz, John Hajek, Gillian Wigglesworth, and Eline Adrianne Smit. 2020. "Probability of Heritage Language Use at a Supportive Early Childhood Setting in Australia." Frontiers in Education. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00093.

3. Infants use phonetic detail in speech perception and word learning when detail is easy to perceive

   Bibliography

   Paola Escudero, and Marina Kalashnikova. 2020. "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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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. The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia

   Bibliography

   Tebbins, Tonya, Evans, Bethwyn, and Terrill, Angela. 2018. "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". In The languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area, 775–894. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

2. 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.

3. The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics

   Bibliography

   Claire Bowern, and Bethwyn Evans. 2015. The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics. London : Routledge.

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.

5. 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.

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 Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis

   Bibliography

   Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, and Nicholas Evans. November 2017. The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. : Oxford University Press.

2. Artist Sally Gabori had a language of her own.

   Bibliography

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3. The last speaker is dead – long live the last speaker!

   Bibliography

   Evans, Nicholas. June 2001. "The last speaker is dead – long live the last speaker!". In Linguistic Field Work, 250–281. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

4. A life of polysynthesis: Hans-Jürgen Sasse (1943–2015)

   Bibliography

   Nicholas Evans, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, and Dejan Matić. January 2015. "A life of polysynthesis: Hans-Jürgen Sasse (1943–2015)." Linguistic Typology. 19 (2) doi: 10.1515/lingty-2015-0010.

5. Typologies of agreement: some problems from Kayardild

   Bibliography

   Nicholas Evans. August 2003. "Typologies of agreement: some problems from Kayardild." Transactions of the Philological Society. 101 (2): 203–234. doi: 10.1111/1467-968x.00118.

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. An Investigation of the /el/–/æl/ Merger in Australian English: A Pilot Study on Production and Perception in South-West Victoria

   Bibliography

   Deborah Loakes, Joshua Clothier, John Hajek, and Janet Fletcher. October 2, 2014. "An Investigation of the /el/–/æl/ Merger in Australian English: A Pilot Study on Production and Perception in South-West Victoria." Australian Journal of Linguistics. 34 (4): 436-452. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2014.929078.

2. 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.

3. Fundamental Frequency and Regional Variation in Lifou French

   Bibliography

   Catalina Torres, Janet Fletcher, and Gillian Wigglesworth. 2020. "Fundamental Frequency and Regional Variation in Lifou French." Language and speech. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920952497.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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. Revitalisation of Mangarrayi: Supporting community use of archival audio exemplars for creation of language learning resources

   Bibliography

   Mark Richards, Caroline Jones, Francesca Merlan, and Jennifer MacRitchie. 2019. "Revitalisation of Mangarrayi: Supporting community use of archival audio exemplars for creation of language learning resources." Language Documentation & Conservation. 13: 253–280. doi: 10125/24865.

3. Evaluating cross-linguistic forced alignment of conversational data in north Australian Kriol, an under-resourced language

   Bibliography

   Caroline Jones, Weicong Li, Andre Almeida, and Amit German. 2019. "Evaluating cross-linguistic forced alignment of conversational data in north Australian Kriol, an under-resourced language." Language Documentation & Conservation. 13: 281–299. doi: 10125/24869.

4. Ngarinyman to English dictionary

   Bibliography

   Caroline Jones, Eva Schultze-Berndt, Jessica Denniss, and Felicity Meakins. 2019. Ngarinyman to English dictionary. Canberra (ACT), Australia : Aboriginal Studies Press.

5. A program to respond to otitis media in remote Australian Aboriginal communities : a qualitative investigation of parent perspectives

   Bibliography

   Caroline Jones, Mridula Sharma, Samantha Harkus, Catherine McMahon, Mele Taumoepeau, Katherine Demuth, Karen Mattock, Lee Rosas, Raelene Wing, Sulabha Pawar, and Anne Hampshire. 2018. "A program to respond to otitis media in remote Australian Aboriginal communities : a qualitative investigation of parent perspectives." BMC Pediatrics. 18 (99): 1-13. doi: 10.1186/s12887-018-1081-3.

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. Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol

   Bibliography

   Meakins, Felicity, and Wilmoth, Sasha. 2020. "Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol". In The Complexities of Morphology, 81-104. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2. Morphological overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol

   Bibliography

   Meakins, Felicity, and Wilmoth, Sasha. 2020. "Morphological overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol". In Morphological Complexity, 81-104. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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. 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.

5. 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.

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. Linguistic diversity in first language acquisition research: Moving beyond the challenges

   Bibliography

   Barbara Kelly, William Forshaw, Rachel Nordlinger, and Gillian Wigglesworth. October 1, 2015. "Linguistic diversity in first language acquisition research: Moving beyond the challenges." First Language. 35 (4-5): 286-304. doi: 10.1177/0142723715602350.

2. The Acquisition of Polysynthetic Languages

   Bibliography

   Barbara Kelly, Gillian Wigglesworth, Rachel Nordlinger, and Joseph Blythe. February 1, 2014. "The Acquisition of Polysynthetic Languages." Language and Linguistics Compass. 8 (2): 51-64. doi: 10.1111/lnc3.12062.

3. Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)

   Bibliography

   Dominique Estival, Cathy Bow, John Henderson, Barbara Kelly, Mary Laughren, Elisabeth Mayer, Diego Mollá, Colette Mrowa-Hopkins, Rachel Nordlinger, Verna Rieschild, Andrea Schalley, Alexander Stanley, and Jill Vaughan. December 1, 2014. "Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)." Language and Linguistics Compass. 8 (12): 659-670. doi: 10.1111/lnc3.12096.

4. Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha

   Bibliography

   Mansfield, John, and Nordlinger, Rachel. 2020. "Demorphologization and deepening complexity in Murrinhpatha". In The Complexities of Morphology, 52-80. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

5. Nominal Tense in Crosslinguistic Perspective

   Bibliography

   Rachel Nordlinger, and Louisa Sadler. 2019. "Nominal Tense in Crosslinguistic Perspective." Language. 80 (4): 776-806. doi: 10.1353/lan.2004.0219.

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. Peter Sutton and the sociocultural dynamics of Indigenous Australian multilingualism

   Bibliography

   Rumsey, Alan. 2020. "Peter Sutton and the sociocultural dynamics of Indigenous Australian multilingualism". In More than Mere Words: Essays on language and Linguistics in Honour of Peter Sutton, 149-166. Adelaide: Wakefield Press.

2. Obituary: James F. Weiner / Jamie Pearl Bloom (1950–2020)

   Bibliography

   Francesca Merlan, and Alan Rumsey. 2020. "Obituary: James F. Weiner / Jamie Pearl Bloom (1950–2020)." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2020.1831229.

3. 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.

4. Egophoricity, engagement, and the centring of subjectivity

   Bibliography

   Rumsey, Alan. 2020. "Egophoricity, engagement, and the centring of subjectivity". In Evidentiality, egophoricity, and engagement, 61-93. Lan.

5. 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.

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. Self-determination with respect to language rights

   Bibliography

   Simpson, Jane. 2020. "Self-determination with respect to language rights". In Indigenous Australian self-determination: histories and historiography, 293-313. Canberra: ANU Press.

3. Junior skin names in Central Australia: function and origin

   Bibliography

   Koch, Harold, and Simpson, Jane. 2020. "Junior skin names in Central Australia: function and origin". In More than mere words: Essays on language and linguistics in honour of Peter Sutton, 165-191. Adeliade: Wakefield Press.

4. 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 (3): 7-11.

5. Setting the scene: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages learning and teaching

   Bibliography

   Jane Simpson, Samantha Disbray, and Carmel O'Shannessy. 2019. "Setting the scene: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages learning and teaching." Babel. 54 (1/2): 7-10.

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. Adaptation without Insight

   Bibliography

   Kim Sterelny. April 2016. "Adaptation without Insight". Princeton, USA.

2. Michael Devitt, Cultural Evolution and the Division of Linguistic Labour

   Bibliography

   Sterelny, Kim. 2020. "Michael Devitt, Cultural Evolution and the Division of Linguistic Labour". In Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective, 173-189.

3. 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.

4. Demography and Cultural Complexity

   Bibliography

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

5. The Origins of Multi-Level Society

   Bibliography

   Kim Sterelny. 2019. "The Origins of Multi-Level Society." Topoi. 1-14. doi: 10.1007/s11245-019-09666-1.

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. Prosodic marking of focus in Nafsan

   Bibliography

   Janet Fletcher, Rosey Billington, Nick Thieberger, Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, and Paul Warren. 2019. "Prosodic marking of focus in Nafsan". In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3787-3791. Melbourne, Australia.

4. Glossopticon: Visualising Archival Data

   Bibliography

   Rachel Hendery, Andrew Burrell, and Nick Thieberger. 2019. "Glossopticon: Visualising Archival Data". In 2019 23rd International Conference in Information Visualization – Part II, 100-103. Paris, France.

5. Access to recordings in the languages of the Pacific

   Bibliography

   Nick Thieberger. 2019. "Access to recordings in the languages of the Pacific." Australia ICOMOS Historic Environment. 31 (3): 98-104.

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. Two languages, one effect: Structural priming in code-switching

   Bibliography

   Rena Torres Cacoullos, and Catherine Travis. August, 2016. "Two languages, one effect: Structural priming in code-switching." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 19 (4): 733-753. doi: 10.1017/S1366728914000406.

2. Gauging convergence on the ground: code-switching in the community

   Bibliography

   Catherine Travis, and Rena Torres Cacoullos. August, 2015. "Gauging convergence on the ground: code-switching in the community." International Journal of Bilingualism (Guest editors - Special Issue). 19 (4): 365-480. doi: 10.1177/1367006913516042.

3. 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.

4. 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/).

5. 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.

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. Linguistic diversity in first language acquisition research: Moving beyond the challenges

   Bibliography

   Barbara Kelly, William Forshaw, Rachel Nordlinger, and Gillian Wigglesworth. October 1, 2015. "Linguistic diversity in first language acquisition research: Moving beyond the challenges." First Language. 35 (4-5): 286-304. doi: 10.1177/0142723715602350.

2. The Acquisition of Polysynthetic Languages

   Bibliography

   Barbara Kelly, Gillian Wigglesworth, Rachel Nordlinger, and Joseph Blythe. February 1, 2014. "The Acquisition of Polysynthetic Languages." Language and Linguistics Compass. 8 (2): 51-64. doi: 10.1111/lnc3.12062.

3. Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges

   Bibliography

   Rhonda Oliver, Gillian Wigglesworth, Denise Angelo, and Carly Steele. 2020. "Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges." Language Teaching Research. doi: 10.1177/1362168820938822.

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

   Bibliography

   Mridula Sharma, Gillian Wigglesworth, Gemma Savage, and Katherine Demuth. 2020. "Binaural processing and phonological awareness in Australian Indigenous children from the Northern Territory: A community based study." International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 128: 109702. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2019.109702.

5. 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:

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. Using technology to enhance communication between people with dementia and their carers

   Bibliography

   Helen Chenery, Christina Atay, Alana Campbell, Erin Conway, Daniel Angus, and Janet Wiles. July 1, 2016. "Using technology to enhance communication between people with dementia and their carers." Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 12 (7): 279-280. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.06.507.

2. An Automated Approach to Examining Conversational Dynamics between People with Dementia and Their Carers

   Bibliography

   Christina Atay, Erin Conway, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles, Rosemary Baker, and Helen Chenery. December 10, 2015. "An Automated Approach to Examining Conversational Dynamics between People with Dementia and Their Carers." PLoS ONE. 10 (12): e0144327. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144327.

3. Can a robot teach me that? Children’s ability to imitate robots

   Bibliography

   Kristyn Sommer, Virginia Slaughter, Janet Wiles, Kathryn Owen, Andrea Chiba, Deborah Forster, Mohsen Malmir, and Mark Nielsen. 2021. "Can a robot teach me that? Children’s ability to imitate robots." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 203: 105040. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105040.

4. 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.

5. An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia

   Bibliography

   Rachel Sluis, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles, Andrew Back, Ting Ting Gibson, Jacki Liddle, Peter Worthy, David Copland, and Anthony Angwin. 2020. "An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia." American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317520939773.