Sasha Wilmoth
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linguist @ uni of melbourne
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Peter Adamson
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Semiotic paradox alert!
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beautiful essay on learning a minority heritage language
yalereview.org/article/dan-...
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Dan Fox: “What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh”
Dan Fox on learning his family’s many-layered language and picking up a portable inheritance.
https://yalereview.org/article/dan-fox-learning-welsh
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So great to see this monumental volume out - over 1000 pages of work in honour of Jane Simpson. Including a chapter on word order flexibility in Pitjantjatjara by myself, Rachel Nordlinger, Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez and Evan Kidd
doi.org/10.22459/PV....
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Eleanor Ridge
29 days ago
Very excited to announce that our three Special Issues on Vanuatu languages are out in Te Reo. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, my co-editors, our brilliant typesetter, and NZLingSoc. 43 authors, 5 introductions, 25 articles and a book review...
nzlingsoc.org/journal/curr...
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Current issue - Linguistic Society of New Zealand
Te Reo is the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand (ISSN 2703-4135). The words Te Reo are the Māori term for ‘the language’ or ‘language’. The Journal is published annually and has been ru...
https://nzlingsoc.org/journal/current-issue/?journal_volumes=319#form-journal-article-filter
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while I'm at it, this conference paper by me and Cris Edmonds-Wathen came out a while ago too (Research Reports Vol 1). We describe a novel use of the Man and Tree task to understand children's spatial reasoning. Longer, linguisticky version is in the works so consider this a preview...
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PME proceedings
https://www.igpme.org/publications/current-proceedings/
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new paper just out! An online sentence comprehension study in Pitjantjatjara, an ergative, free word order language
doi.org/10.1080/2327...
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Real-time thematic role assignment in Pitjantjatjara: an eye-tracking study
Languages differ in how core argument roles are marked and in the cues guiding their real-time comprehension. This study investigated thematic role assignment in Pitjantjatjara – an Australian Pama...
https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2593904
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ANU Press
about 1 month ago
Coming soon! Innovative research on Australian Indigenous languages, inspired by Jane Simpson. This title combines theory and practical insights on language rights, showcasing the richness and diversity of Australian linguistics. Register your interest:
doi.org/10.22459/PV....
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Evangelia Adamou 🦋
3 months ago
“Indigenous teenager teaches Paakantyi language to teachers at Menindee school” 👏🏼
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Teenage student becomes Indigenous language teacher at outback NSW school
Jaz Fusi has been passionate about learning Paakantyi language for most of her life. Now, she teaches it to her local school's teachers and is eager to see other kids do the same.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-27/aboriginal-paakantyi-language-teacher-outback-nsw-school/105815440
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Evangelia Adamou 🦋
about 2 months ago
Our paper is now available at Glossa Contact! Cross-linguistic priming in comprehension facilitates change in adjective-noun order: Eye-tracking evidence from Romani-Romanian and Romani-Serbian bilinguals
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www.glossacontact.org/index.php/gc...
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Cross-linguistic priming in comprehension facilitates change in adjective-noun order | Glossa Contact
https://www.glossacontact.org/index.php/gc/article/view/3
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new paper out! in which we describe the huge amount of work it took to develop the corpus of the Australian mixed language Gurindji Kriol, and how this enabled novel quantitative research. one for the data-heads 🤓
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Small language, big data: Building the Gurindji Kriol corpus to model the emergence of a mixed language
At 178 hours and 853,348 words, the Gurindji Kriol corpus (Meakins & Algy 2004) is currently the largest annotated corpus of an Australian Indigenous language, and is a significant record of the commu...
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/39e50e74-b49f-486d-aaca-24326eeb282a
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Gerald Roche
about 2 months ago
This article (that I wrote) is good & I hope some linguists will read it. It's a reinterpretation of Krauss's influential 1992 paper 'The World's Languages in Crisis.' Here's a short quick thread with two key insights from the paper.
scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation...
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The World’s Languages in Crisis (Redux): Toward a Radical Reimagining for Global Linguistic Justice
The world’s languages are in crisis: intergenerational transmission of around half the world’s languages is collapsing. I argue that to understand and intervene in this situation, we need to radically...
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol1/iss2/8/
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Iris van Rooij 💭
5 months ago
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/
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Lauren Gawne
5 months ago
Linguists know babies come from the 14th century diminutive of 'babe', but the origin of that word (and hence all babies) is ultimately uncertain.
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Lauren Gawne
5 months ago
The Linguistics Discipline at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific position statement on the role of generative AI in our classrooms.
www.superlinguo.com/post/7908973...
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Position Statement on Generative AI in teaching...
Position Statement on Generative AI in teaching and research The Linguistics Discipline in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific posi...
https://www.superlinguo.com/post/790897303561043968/position-statement-on-generative-ai-in-teaching
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AHA (Australia)
5 months ago
We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign!
www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
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Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition
We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025…
https://www.openpetition.org/au/petition/online/repeal-job-ready-graduates-policy-now-restoring-equity-in-higher-education
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Lauren Gawne
6 months ago
The latest round of cuts at ANU include an outrageous plan to close the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC). ANU has forgotten its vital function as the national university. Please sign this petition urging ANU to reconsider and protect the ANDC:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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hello world. new paper out!
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you reached the end!!
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