Michael Christie receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Dr Brian Devlin works for Charles Darwin University, which is a partner in the Living Archive Project, funded by the Australian ...
The audio is scratchy and distorted, sounding at times like it is being spoken through a wall. Yet the voice speaking is high and proud, with long, stretched syllables in English. When she breaks into ...
In this boot camp, students learn to take risks and get “messy” — by studying grammar, that is. Claire Bowern, professor of linguistics, conceived of the Grammar Boot Camp several ago as a way of ...
With some Australian Aboriginal languages facing extinction, the Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association (ACRA) has adopted Microsoft SharePoint and Access to help its work to preserve one ...
This study in the methodology of cross-linguistic semantics within the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework posits the existence of universal lexico-semantic primitives. Among these are ...
COFFS HARBOUR, Australia, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Whirling barefoot in a sand circle, Clark Webb leads a class of school children as they dance to clapsticks and the songs of the Gumbaynggirr, an ...
Australia's Catholic bishops have approved a liturgy incorporating elements of Aboriginal language and culture, marking what some liturgists are hailing as a lived expression of the Second Vatican ...