Associate Investigators
Daniel Angus
Daniel Angus received the BS/BE double degree in research and development, and electronics and computer systems, and the PhD degree in computer science from Swinburne University of Technology, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Dr. Angus joined The University of Queensland in 2008 as part of the ARC Thinking Systems initiative, and in 2012 began a strategic initiative in communication technologies between the then School of Journalism and Communication and School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering. In 2018 Dr. Angus joined the team at the Queensland University of Technology.
His research focuses on the development of visualization and analysis methods for communication data, with a specific focus on conversation data. Dr. Angus and colleagues pioneered the development of the Discursis computer-based visual text analytic tool, used to analyse various forms of communication. Discursis has been used to analyse conversations, web forums, training scenarios, among other large and complex datasets, and is featured in numerous journal articles.
Recent Publications
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.
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.
An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia
Bibliography
Rachel A. Sluis, Daniel Angus, Janet Wiles, Andrew Back, Ting Ting Gibson, Jacki Liddle, Peter Worthy, David Copland, and Anthony J. Angwin. 2020. "An Automated Approach to Examining Pausing in the Speech of People With Dementia." American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias. 35: 1-8. doi: 10.1177/1533317520939773.
Recurrence Methods for Communication Data, Reflecting on 20 Years of Progress
Bibliography
Daniel Angus. 2020. "Recurrence Methods for Communication Data, Reflecting on 20 Years of Progress." Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. 5 (54): 1-10. doi: 10.3389/fams.2019.00054.
Determining the Number of Samples Required to Estimate Entropy in Natural Sequences
Bibliography
Andrew Back, Daniel Angus, and Janet Wiles. 2019. "Determining the Number of Samples Required to Estimate Entropy in Natural Sequences." IEEE Transaction on Information Theory. 65 (7): 4345-4352. doi: 10.1109/TIT.2019.2898412.
Wayan Arka
Wayan Arka is interested in Austronesian and Papuan languages of Eastern Indonesia, language typology, syntactic theory and language documentation. His current project on the typological study of core arguments and marking in Austronesian languages is an extension of my previous collaborative project with Indonesian linguists on the languages of Eastern Indonesia. He is still working on the Rongga materials collected for The Rongga Documentation Project, funded by the Hans Rausing ELDP grant (2004-6). He is also currently doing collaborative research on voice in the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia (funded by an NSF grant, 2006-2009), Indonesian Parallel Grammar Project (funded by a near-miss grant from Sydney University (2007) and an ARC Discovery grant (2008-2011), and the languages of Southern New Guinea (funded by an ARC grant 2011-2015).
Recent Publications
Modular design of grammar
Bibliography
Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh, and Tracy Holloway King. 2021. Modular design of grammar. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Pivot and puzzling relativization in Indonesian
Bibliography
Arka, Wayan, Arka, I Wayan, Asudeh, Ash, and Holloway King, Tracy. 2021. "Pivot and puzzling relativization in Indonesian". In Modular design of grammar, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Grammatical relations in Balinese
Bibliography
Arka, Wayan. 2019. "Grammatical relations in Balinese". In Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations, 257-299. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Etnobotani: pengetahuan lokal suku Marori di Taman Nasional Wasur Merauke
Bibliography
La Hisa, Agus Mahuze, and Wayan Arka. 2018. Etnobotani: pengetahuan lokal suku Marori di Taman Nasional Wasur Merauke. Indonesia : Balai Taman Nasional Wasur.
Information structure in Sembiran Balinese
Bibliography
Arka, Wayan, and Sedeng, Nyoman. 2018. "Information structure in Sembiran Balinese". In Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian language, 139–175. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Brett Baker
Brett Baker is a senior lecturer in linguistics, the author of Word Structure in Ngalakgan (2008), and the co-editor (with Ilana Mushin) of Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (2008).
Recent Publications
Australia and New Guinea
Bibliography
Baker, Brett, Donohoe, Mark, Fletcher, Mark, Gussenhoven, Carlos, and Chen, Aoju. 2021. "Australia and New Guinea". In Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, 384-395. New York: Oxford University Press.
The genetic position of Anindilyakwa
Bibliography
Marie-Elaine van Egmond, and Brett Baker. 2021. "The genetic position of Anindilyakwa." Australian Journal of Linguistics. 40 (4): 492-527. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2020.1848796.
Pause acceptability indicates word-internal structure in Wubuy
Bibliography
Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, and Brett Baker. 2020. "Pause acceptability indicates word-internal structure in Wubuy." Cognition. 198: 104167. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104167.
Japanese Vowel Devoicing Modulates Perceptual Epenthesis
Bibliography
Alexander Kilpatrick, Shigeto Kawahara, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett Baker, and Janet Fletcher. 2018. "Japanese Vowel Devoicing Modulates Perceptual Epenthesis". In Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Native prosodic systems and learning experience shape production of non-native tones
Bibliography
Mengyue Wu, Janet Fletcher, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, and Brett Baker. 2016. "Native prosodic systems and learning experience shape production of non-native tones". In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, 587-591. Boston, USA.
Steven Bird
Steven Bird is Professor in the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University. He is developing scalable methods for documenting and revitalising endangered languages, with a focus on the Bininj Kunwok language of West Arnhem.
David Bradley
David Bradley has conducted extensive research on endangered languages, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, geolinguistics, language policy and phonetics/phonology in Southeast, East and South Asia over many years, especially on Tibeto-Burman languages, as well as on other languages of these areas and on varieties of English. He is a member of the editorial boards of eight international journals and monograph series, the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over twenty books and five language atlases, several with translation and/or second and third editions; and of numerous other publications.
Recent Publications
An acoustic study of vowels in northern Lisu
Bibliography
Rael Stanley, David Bradley, Marija Tabain, Defen Yu, Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, and Paul Warren. 2019. "An acoustic study of vowels in northern Lisu". In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019, 1435-1439. Melbourne, Australia.
Lisu
Bibliography
Bradley, David. 2015. "Lisu". In Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics., Leiden: Brill.
Chinese calendar animals in Shanhaijng and in Sino-Tibetan languages
Bibliography
Bradley, David, and Likun, Pei. 2015. "Chinese calendar animals in Shanhaijng and in Sino-Tibetan languages". In World Geographical Philosophy of Shanhaijing and Chinese Traditional Culture, 93-101. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Studies University Press.
Language reclamation strategies: Some Tibeto-Burman examples
Bibliography
David Bradley. 2015. "Language reclamation strategies: Some Tibeto-Burman examples." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 38 (2): 3-21. doi: 10.1075/ltba.38.2.01bra.
Lisu
Bibliography
Bradley, David, Grandi, Nicola, and Kortvelyessy, Livia. 2015. "Lisu". In Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology, 361-366. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Denis Burnham
Denis Burnham is the inaugural Director of MARCS at the Western Sydney University. His current research focuses on experiential and inherited influences in speech and language development: infant speech perception; auditory-visual (AV) speech perception; special speech registers, including ,infant-, pet-, foreigner-, computer-, and lover-directed speech; captions for the hearing impaired; tone languages: lexical tone perception, tone perception with cochlear implants, and speech-music interactions; human-machine interaction; speech corpus studies; and the role of infants’ perceptual experience and expertise, in literacy development.
Recent Publications
Infant-directed speech facilitates seven-month-old infants’ cortical tracking of speech
Bibliography
Marina Kalashnikova, Varghese Peter, Giovanni Di Liberto, Edmund Lalor, and Denis Burnham. 2018. "Infant-directed speech facilitates seven-month-old infants’ cortical tracking of speech." Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 13745. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32150-6.
Are lexical tones musical? Native language’s influence on neural response to pitch in different domains
Bibliography
Ao Chen, Varghese Peter, Frank Wijnena, Hugo Schnack, and Denis Burnham. 2018. "Are lexical tones musical? Native language’s influence on neural response to pitch in different domains." Brain & Language. 180-182: 31-41. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2018.04.006.
Training Children to Perceive Non-native Lexical Tones: Tone Language Background, Bilingualism, and Auditory-Visual Information
Bibliography
Benjawan Kasisopa, Lamya El-Khoury Antonios, Allard Jongman, Joan A Sereno, and Denis Burnham. 2018. "Training Children to Perceive Non-native Lexical Tones: Tone Language Background, Bilingualism, and Auditory-Visual Information." Frontiers in Psychology. 9: 1508. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01508.
Language-general auditory-visual speech perception: Thai-English and Japanese-English McGurk effects
Bibliography
Denis Burnham, and Barbara Dodd. 2018. "Language-general auditory-visual speech perception: Thai-English and Japanese-English McGurk effects." Multisensory Research. 31 (1-2): 79–110. doi: 10.1163/22134808-00002590.
Auditory-visual speech perception in three- and four-year-olds and its relationship to perceptual attunement and receptive vocabulary
Bibliography
Dogu Erdener, and Denis Burnham. 2018. "Auditory-visual speech perception in three- and four-year-olds and its relationship to perceptual attunement and receptive vocabulary." Journal of Child Language. 45 (2): 273-289. doi: 10.1017/S0305000917000174.
Michael Christie
Michael Christie heads up the Contemporary Indigenous Governance and Knowledge Systems research theme at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University. Professor Christie worked in Yolŋu communities as a teacher linguist in the 1970s and 1980s, and started the Yolŋu Studies program at Northern Territory University (now CDU) in 1994. After working within the Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the School of Education, he moved to the Northern Institute in 2010. He has over 40 years involvement with bilingual education, linguistics and literature production in the NT, and the ways in which Aboriginal philosophies and pedagogies have influenced the production and use of literature over the years. He is a major contributor to the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages.
Recent Publications
Digital Futures for Bilingual Books
Bibliography
Bow, Cathy, Christie, Michael, and Devlin, Brian. 2017. "Digital Futures for Bilingual Books". In History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory, 347-353. Singapore: Springer.
David Copland
Professor David Copland is a Principal Research Fellow and Speech Pathologist conducting research in the areas of language neuroscience, psycholinguistics, and neuroimaging of normal and disordered language. He is Deputy Chair of the Research and Postgraduate Studies Committee of the UQ School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and is a group leader at the UQ Centre for Clinical Research where he leads the Language Neuroscience Laboratory.
Recent Publications
Prognostication in Poststroke Aphasia: Perspectives of Significant Others of People With Aphasia on Receiving Information About Recovery
Bibliography
Bonnie Cheng, Brooke Ryan, David Copland, and Sarah Wallace. 2022. "Prognostication in Poststroke Aphasia: Perspectives of Significant Others of People With Aphasia on Receiving Information About Recovery." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 31 (2): 896-911. doi: https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00170.
Dorsal and ventral cortical connectivity is mediated by the inferior frontal gyrus during facilitated naming of pictures
Bibliography
Kartik Iyer, David Copland, and Anthony Angwin. 2021. "Dorsal and ventral cortical connectivity is mediated by the inferior frontal gyrus during facilitated naming of pictures." Brain Connectivity.. 1-10. doi: 10.1089/brain.2020.0867.
Effects of emotional cues on novel word learning in typically developing children in relation to broader autism traits
Bibliography
Melina West, Anthony Angwin, David Copland, Wendy Arnott, and Nicole Nelson. 2021. "Effects of emotional cues on novel word learning in typically developing children in relation to broader autism traits." Journal of Child Language. 1-19. doi: 10.1017/S0305000921000192.
The effect of sleep on novel word learning in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Bibliography
Emma Schimke, Anthony Angwin, Bonnie Cheng, and David Copland. 2021. "The effect of sleep on novel word learning in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis." Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 28 (6): 1811–1838. doi: 10.3758/s13423-021-01980-3.
Corticostriatal regulation of language functions
Bibliography
David Copland, Sonia Brownsett, Kartik Iyer, and Anthony Angwin. 2021. "Corticostriatal regulation of language functions." Neuropsychology Review. 31 (3): 472–494. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-021-09481-9.
Nick Enfield
Nick Enfield’s research addresses the intersection of language, cognition, social interaction, and culture, from three main angles: 1. Semiotic structure and process; 2. Causal dependencies in semiotic systems; 3. Language and Human Sociality. His empirical specialisation is in the languages of mainland Southeast Asia, especially Lao and Kri. Lao is the national language of Laos, spoken by over 20 million people in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and elsewhere. Kri (Vietic sub-branch of Austroasiatic) is spoken near the Laos-Vietnam border in Khammouane Province by an isolated community of around 300 people.
Recent Publications
Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity
Bibliography
Nick Enfield, and Jack Sidnell. 2022. Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity. : MIT Press.
Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
Bibliography
Nick Enfield. 2022. Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists. : MIT Press.
The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
Bibliography
Nick Enfield. 2021. The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Simon Garrod
Simon Garrod holds the Chair in Cognitive Psychology and is director of the INP Social Interactions Centre. His interests in psycholinguistics include reading, dialogue, and the evolution of language and communication. He was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the Society for Text and Discourse and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Recent Publications
Iconicity: From Sign To System In Human Communication and Language
Bibliography
Nicolas Fay, Mark Ellison, and Simon Garrod. December 2015. "Iconicity: From Sign To System In Human Communication and Language." Pragmatics & Cognition. 22 (2): 244-263. doi: 10.1075/pc.22.2.05fay.
Applying the cultural ratchet to a social artefact: The cumulative cultural evolution of a language game
Bibliography
Nicolas Fay, Mark Ellison, Kristian Tylen, Riccardo Fusaroli, Bradley Walker, and Simon Garrod. 2018. "Applying the cultural ratchet to a social artefact: The cumulative cultural evolution of a language game." Evolution & Human Behavior. 39 (3): 300-309. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.02.002.
Simon Greenhill
Simon Greenhill's research focus is the evolution of languages and cultures. He has applied cutting-edge computational phylogenetic methods to language and cultural evolution, and used these methods to test hypotheses about human prehistory and cultural evolution in general. The questions he has explored so far include how people settled the Pacific, how language structure and complexity evolve, the co-evolution of cultural systems in the Pacific, and how cultural evolution can be modelled.
Recent Publications
Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands
Bibliography
Simon Greenhill, Quentin Atkinson, Ties Coomber, Sam Passmore, and Geoff Kushnick. May 27, 2016. "Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands." PLoS ONE. 11 (5): e0156340. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156340.
D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity
Bibliography
Simon Greenhill, Russell Gray, Kathryn Kirby, Fiona Jordan, Stephanie Gomes-Ng, and Hans-Jorg Bibiko. April 11, 2016. "D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity." PLoS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158391.
Managing Historical Linguistic Data for Computational Phylogenetics and Computer-Assisted Language Comparison
Bibliography
Tresoldi, Tiago, Rzymsk, Christoph, Forkel, Robert, Greenhill, Simon, List, Johann-Mattis, and Gray, Russell. 2022. "Managing Historical Linguistic Data for Computational Phylogenetics and Computer-Assisted Language Comparison". In The Open Handbook in Linguistic Data, MIT Press.
Games and enculturation: A cross-cultural analysis of cooperative goal structures in Austronesian games
Bibliography
Sarah Leisterer-Peoples, Cody Ross, Simon Greenhill, Susanne Hardecker, and Daniel Haun. 2021. "Games and enculturation: A cross-cultural analysis of cooperative goal structures in Austronesian games." PLOS ONE. 16 (11): e0259746. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259746.
Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity
Bibliography
Lindell Bromham, Russell Dinnage, Hedvig Skirgard, Andrew Ritchie, Marcel Cardillo, Felicity Meakins, Simon Greenhill, and Xia Hua. 2021. "Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity." Nature, Ecology & Evolution.
Nikolaus Himmelmann
Nikolaus Himmelmann has done fieldwork in the Philippines (Tagalog), Sulawesi (Tomin-Tolitoli languages) and East Timor (Waima’a) and published widely on a number of core issues in Austronesian grammar, including the nature of lexical and syntactic categories and voice.
Recent Publications
Against trivializing language description (and comparison)
Bibliography
Nikolaus Himmelmann. 2021. "Against trivializing language description (and comparison)." Studies in Language. 1-28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.19090.him.
Using Rapid Prosody Transcription to probe little-known prosodic systems: The case of Papuan Malay
Bibliography
Sonja Riesberg, Janina Kalbertodt, Stefan Baumann, and Nikolaus Himmelmann. 2020. "Using Rapid Prosody Transcription to probe little-known prosodic systems: The case of Papuan Malay." Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. 11 (1): 1–35. doi: 10.5334/labphon.192.
How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages
Bibliography
Sonja Riesberg, Kurt Malcher, and Nikolaus Himmelmann. 2019. "How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages." Language. 95 (3): 523-561. doi: 10.1353/lan.2019.0055.
Some preliminary observations on prosody and information structure in Austronesian languages of Indonesia and East Timor
Bibliography
Himmelmann, Nikolaus. 2018. "Some preliminary observations on prosody and information structure in Austronesian languages of Indonesia and East Timor". In Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, 347–374. Berlin: Language Science Press.
On the perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay
Bibliography
Riesberg, Sonja, Kalbertodt, Janina, Baumann, Stefan, and Himmelmann, Nikolaus. 2018. "On the perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay". In Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, 389–414. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Evan Kidd
Evan Kidd is an Associate Professor in the Research School of Psychology at the ANU and is a Senior Investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. He completed his PhD in Psycholinguistics at La Trobe University, and has held academic positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, The University of Manchester, and La Trobe University. His research concentrates on language acquisition and language processing across different languages and in different populations.
Recent Publications
How diverse is child language acquisition research?
Bibliography
Evan Kidd, and Rowena Garcia. 2022. "How diverse is child language acquisition research?." First Language. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237211066405.
On the Structure and Source of Individual Differences in Toddlers’ Comprehension of Transitive Sentences
Bibliography
Seamus Donnelly, and Evan Kidd. 2021. "On the Structure and Source of Individual Differences in Toddlers’ Comprehension of Transitive Sentences." Frontiers in Psychology. 12 (661022): 1-17. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661022.
Onset Neighborhood Density Slows Lexical Access in High Vocabulary 30-Month Olds
Bibliography
Seamus Donnelly, and Evan Kidd. 2021. "Onset Neighborhood Density Slows Lexical Access in High Vocabulary 30-Month Olds." Cognitive Science. 45 (9): e13022. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13022.
Developmental effects in the online use of morphosyntactic cues in sentence processing: Evidence from Tagalog
Bibliography
Rowena Garcia, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, and Evan Kidd. 2021. "Developmental effects in the online use of morphosyntactic cues in sentence processing: Evidence from Tagalog." Cognition. 216 (104859): 1-20. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104859.
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn-Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development
Bibliography
Seamus Donnelly, and Evan Kidd. 2021. "The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn-Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development." Child Development. 92 (2): 609-625. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13511.
Paul Maruff
Paul Maruff is one of the founders of Cogstate. He is a neuropsychologist with expertise in the identification and measurement of subtle behavioral and cognitive dysfunction. Paul's research integrates conventional and computerized neuropsychological testing with cognitive neuroscientific methods to guide decision making in drug development and in clinical medicine.
Recent Publications
Monitoring change requires a rethink of assessment practices in voice and speech
Bibliography
Adam Vogel, and Paul Maruff. 07/2014. "Monitoring change requires a rethink of assessment practices in voice and speech." Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology. 39 (2): 56-61. doi: 10.3109/14015439.2013.775332.
Francesca Merlan
Francesca Merlan's research interests include: social transformation; indigeneity, nationalism, language and culture; theories of social action, organisation, and consciousness; modernity segmentary politics; exchange emergent identities; gender, social and cultural transformation in North Australia; the transformation of place-worlds among Aboriginal people; the building of Australian national identity in relation to indigeneity; land claims; applied anthropology; and sites and heritage issues. Her research covers many geographies and nationalities, including Australia; Papua New Guinea; and North America, particularly American Indian communities and surrounding (rural) communities and towns.
Recent Publications
Living Larrimah: A reminiscence
Bibliography
Merlan, Francesca, Finlayson, Julie D, and Morphy, Frances. 2020. "Living Larrimah: A reminiscence". In Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical and anthropological essays in honour of Peter Sutton, Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
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. 21 (5): 483-486. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2020.1831229.
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: 19. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2020.00019.
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.
Obituary: Thomas Mitchell Ernst (1943–2016)
Bibliography
Alan Rumsey, and Francesca Merlan. 2017. "Obituary: Thomas Mitchell Ernst (1943–2016)." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 18 (1): 87-88. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2017.1253433.
Ilana Mushin
Ilana Mushin has a long-standing interest in the management of knowledge in discourse. Her recent research has included epistemic stance-taking in Australian Aboriginal communities; grammatical description of Garrwa, a critically endangered Aboriginal language; and, more recently, on the English-based vernacular languages spoken by most Aboriginal people in Australia today.. She is the author of Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling (John Benjamins, 2001) and A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (Mouton De Gruyter, 2012) and co-editor of Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (with Brett Baker, John Benjamins, 2008).
Recent Publications
Effective Task Instruction in the First Year of School: What Teachers and Children Do
Bibliography
Ilana Mushin, Rod Gardner, and Claire Gourlay. 2022. Effective Task Instruction in the First Year of School: What Teachers and Children Do. : Routledge.
Dis, that and da other: Variation in Aboriginal children's article and demonstrative use at school
Bibliography
Fraser, Henry, Mushin, Ilana, Meakins, Felicity, Gardner, Rod, Wigglesworth, Gillian, Simpson, Jane, and Vaughan, Jill. 2017. "Dis, that and da other: Variation in Aboriginal children's article and demonstrative use at school". In Language practices of Indigenous children and youth: the transition from home to school, 237-269. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Identifying the grammars of Queensland ex-Government reserves: The case of Woorie Talk
Bibliography
Mushin, Ilana, and Watts, Janet. 2016. "Identifying the grammars of Queensland ex-Government reserves: The case of Woorie Talk". In Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages since Colonisation, 57–86. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Rethinking Australian Indigenous English-based speech varieties: Evidence from Woorabinda
Bibliography
Jennifer Munro, and Ilana Mushin. 2016. "Rethinking Australian Indigenous English-based speech varieties: Evidence from Woorabinda." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 31 (1): 82-112. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.31.1.
Same but different: Understanding language contact in Queensland Indigenous Settlements
Bibliography
Mushin, Ilana, Angelo, Denise, and Munro, Jennifer. 2016. "Same but different: Understanding language contact in Queensland Indigenous Settlements". In Land and language in the Cape York Peninsula and Gulf Country, 383-408. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Carmel O’Shannessy
Carmel O'Shannessy began a continuing appointment at ANU, in SLLL, CASS on July 1, coming to ANU from the University of Michigan. She will be continuing an NSF grant #1348013 on the Documentation and acquisition of Light Warlpiri and Warlpiri, and teaching in SLLL.
Carmel is currently documenting a newly emerged mixed language in northern Australia, Light Warlpiri, the emergence of which is the result of code-switching between an Australian language, Warlpiri, and English and Kriol (an English-lexified creole). Her current projects include diachronic changes in nominal case-marking from Warlpiri to Light Warlpiri, and grammaticalisation and innovation in the Light Warlpiri auxiliary system. Of particular interest is the role of children in grammaticalisation processes.
Recent Publications
‘I Could Still Be Myself as a Warlpiri Person’: How Bilingual Education Achieves Community Development Aims
Bibliography
O’Shannessy, Carmel, Rose, Marlkirdi, Johnson, Elaine, and White, Gracie. 2022. "‘I Could Still Be Myself as a Warlpiri Person’: How Bilingual Education Achieves Community Development Aims". In Languages, Linguistics and Development Practices, 163–188. CHam: Palgrave Macmillan.
Conventionalised creativity in the emergence of a mixed language – a case study of Light Warlpiri
Bibliography
O’Shannessy, Carmel, Aboh, Enoch O, and Vigouroux, Cécile B. 2021. "Conventionalised creativity in the emergence of a mixed language – a case study of Light Warlpiri". In Variation rolls the dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, 81-104. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Talking together: how language documentation and teaching practice support oral language development in bilingual education programs
Bibliography
Samantha Disbray, Carmel O’Shannessy, Gretel MacDonald, and Barbara Martin. 2020. "Talking together: how language documentation and teaching practice support oral language development in bilingual education programs." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 23: 1-17. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2020.1767535.
Why do children lead contact-induced language change in some contexts but not others?
Bibliography
O’Shannessy, Carmel. 2019. "Why do children lead contact-induced language change in some contexts but not others?". In Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew, 321–335. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Andrew Perfors
Andrew is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Complex Human Data Hub at the University of Melbourne. Andrew graduated from MIT in 2008 with a PhD in Brain & Cognitive Sciences. His research program spans concepts, decision-making and language, including hypothesis generation and testing, the representation and acquisition of complex concepts, the social assumptions underlying decision making and inference, language acquisition, linguistic and cognitive evolution, and statistical learning. To explore these issues he uses computational and primarily Bayesian mathematical models coupled with empirical work. His publications can be found in many of the premier journals in psychology, including Psychological Review, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Cognition, Cognitive Science, and Cognitive Psychology, and he has received extensive grant support from the ARC, including a DECRA and two Discovery Projects.
Recent Publications
Category Clustering and Morphological Learning
Bibliography
John Mansfield, Carmen Saldana, Peter Hurst, Rachel Nordlinger, Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel, and Andrew Perfors. 2022. "Category Clustering and Morphological Learning." Cognitive Science. 46 (2): e13107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13107.
When Extremists Win: Cultural Transmission Via Iterated Learning When Populations Are Heterogeneous
Bibliography
Danielle Navarro, Andrew Perfors, Arthur Kary, Scott Brown, and Chris Donkin. 2018. "When Extremists Win: Cultural Transmission Via Iterated Learning When Populations Are Heterogeneous." Cognitive Science. 42 (7): 2108-2149. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12667.
Reversing the endowment effect
Bibliography
Campbell Pryor, Andrew Perfors, and Piers Howe. 2018. "Reversing the endowment effect." Judgement and Decision Making. 13 (3): 275–286.
Not every credible interval is credible: Evaluating robustness in the presence of contamination in Bayesian data analysis
Bibliography
Lauren Kennedy, Daniel Navarro, Andrew Perfors, and Nancy Briggs. 2017. "Not every credible interval is credible: Evaluating robustness in the presence of contamination in Bayesian data analysis." Behavior Research Methods. 49 (6): 2219-2234. doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0854-1.
The helpfulness of category labels in semi-supervised learning depends on category structure
Bibliography
Wai Keen Vong, Daniel Navarro, and Andrew Perfors. 2016. "The helpfulness of category labels in semi-supervised learning depends on category structure." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 23 (1): 230-238. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0857-9.
Luc Steels
Luc Steels studied linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His main research field is Artificial Intelligence covering a wide range of intelligent abilities, including vision, robotic behavior, conceptual representations and language. He founded the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris in 1996 and became its first director. Currently he is ICREA research professor at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC,UPF). During the past decade he has focused on theories for the origins and evolution of language using computer simulations and robotic experiments to discover and test them.
Jakelin Troy
Jakelin Troy is a Ngarigu woman whose country is the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Her academic research is diverse but has a focus on languages and linguistics, anthropology and visual arts. She is particularly interested in Australian languages of New South Wales and ‘contact languages’. Her doctoral research was into the development of NSW Pidgin. Since 2001 Jakelin has been developing curricula for Australian schools with a focus on Australian language programs.
Adam Vogel
Adam leads the Speech Neuroscience Unit at the University of Melbourne where his team work towards improving speech, language and swallowing function in people with progressive and acquired neurological conditions. Adam’s group pursues rehabilitation and discovery research across two intertwined domains: (1) the first seeks to improve communication and swallowing in people with progressive neurological disorders (e.g., atypical dementia, hereditary ataxias); (2) the second exploits speech as a sensitive marker of central nervous system integrity to better understand the mechanisms underlying a range of neurological conditions (e.g., sleep disturbance, drug use, hearing impairment, depression).
Recent Publications
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.
Can a smartphone-based chatbot engage older community group members? The impact of specialised content
Bibliography
Christina Atay, David Ireland, Jacki Liddle, Janet Wiles, Adam Vogel, Daniel Angus, Dana Bradford, Alana Campbell, Olivia Rushin, and Helen Chenery. 2016. "Can a smartphone-based chatbot engage older community group members? The impact of specialised content." Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 12 (7): 1005-1006. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.06.2070.
Monitoring change requires a rethink of assessment practices in voice and speech
Bibliography
Adam Vogel, and Paul Maruff. 07/2014. "Monitoring change requires a rethink of assessment practices in voice and speech." Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology. 39 (2): 56-61. doi: 10.3109/14015439.2013.775332.
Brendan Weekes
Brendan Weekes is an experimental psychologist who studies the psychology of language and memory – specifically word recognition and recall. He examines cognitive processes using cross-linguistic, neuropsychological and brain imaging methods. His research can be applied to understanding problems in clinical neuropsychology including bilingual aphasia, dementia and reading difficulties. He is Chair in Communication Science at the University of Hong Kong and Director of the Communication Science Laboratory at HKU, where he has been since 2010. Prior 2010, he was a Reader in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex for ten years.
