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- Google Scholar- find academic work and their citations
- Phonetic symbol fonts
- Leipzig rules for Inter-linear glossing in texts and example sentences.
- Susanna Cumming's Word for Linguists:
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International phonetic alphabet (IPA) chart:
Staff and students are involved in theoretical research and practical projects exploring linguistics.
They have worked in the Pacific Islands and in Aboriginal Australia, producing grammatical descriptions and dictionaries, works concerned with linguistic theory, computer models of language structure and of language learning, and historical, socio-cultural, and education-oriented studies.
Research strengths
- Language documentation, grammatical description and linguistic typology:
- Australian Aboriginal languages
- Pacific languages
- Northwest Semitic languages
- Language change, language contact, linguistic variation
- Phonetics, phonology, morphology
- Syntax and semantics
- Technology for linguistic research.
Research topics
- Australian Aboriginal languages:
Winthrop Professor Alan Dench, Dr John Henderson - Language description, linguistic typology:
Winthrop Professor Alan Dench, Dr Mark Ellison, Dr Shelly Harrison, Dr John Henderson. - Language change, language contact, linguistic variation:
Winthrop Professor Alan Dench, Dr Mark Ellison, Dr Shelly Harrison, Dr John Henderson, Professor Anne Pauwels, Associate Professor Marie-Eve Ritz. - Phonetics, phonology, morphology:
Winthrop Professor Alan Dench, Dr Mark Ellison, Dr Shelly Harrison, Dr John Henderson. - Syntax and semantics:
Dr Shelly Harrison, Associate Professor Marie-Eve Ritz. - Technology for linguistic research:
Dr Mark Ellison, Dr John Henderson.
Publications
Downloadable publications by academic staff and post-graduate students.
Martuthunira is the Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Publication written by Alan Dench.
Scott, K., McGlade, H., Smith-Ali, D., and J. Henderson 2006, A Protocol for Laves' 1931 Noongar Field Notes, Perth: University of Western Australia
Boynton, J., S. Crouch, and E. Przywolnik (eds) 2008, UWA Linguistics Working Papers. Vol. 1. School of Humanities, University of Western Australia.
Setiawan, Slamet and Renwick, Helen (eds). 2010, UWA Linguistics Working Papers. Vol. 2. Perth: University of Western Australia
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