Key Projects

Barth Lab for Corpus Linguistics

Matukar Panau Language Documentation

Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) Project

Now Available: Understanding Corpus Linguistics. A textbook for corpus linguistics, concentrating on linguistic diversity.

Available student projects

ANU is accepting PhD applications.

I am interested in students looking to do corpus-based documentation or usage-based variation projects of corpus data, particularly for endangered languages, languages of the Pacific and Papua New Guinea, and Oceanic languages.

Contact me & look at:

http://chl.anu.edu.au/study/graduate-research

Current student projects

Chair:

"Language change and variation in a multilingual speech community: Clause chain use in Yoidik and Matukar Panau" - Kira Davey

"Language variation in a multilingual-multicultural space: The case of Assamese vowels" - Saurabh Kumar Nath

"Children’s acquisition of Ku Waru (a Trans-New Guinea language)" - Caroline Hendy

Associate Supervisor:

"Semantics of landscape terms in Chinese" - Emma Rao

"A Grammar of Mentawai" - Emma Keith

"A Grammar of Kodhi, An Austronesian Language of Sumba Island, eastern Indonesia" - Yustinus Ate

"A Grammar of Simalur" - Keira Mullan

"Developing and documenting a system for using the Luqa vernacular as its own grammatical metalanguage, and its use by Luqa speakers to study and analyze their own language in the Solomon Islands" - Alpheaus Zobule

Previous Student Projects

Chair:

"How do teachers of Indonesian choose what to teach? Computational tools to explore usage patterns" - Zara Maxwell-Smith

Associate Supervisor:

"Social variation in the English of Chinese-Australians" - Qiao Gan

"Computational methods in aid of transcription and linguistics analysis, using the Southern New Guinea language Nen as a case study" - Sahlia Muradoglu

"Variation in Raga - a quantitative and qualitative study of the language of North Pentecost, Vanuatu" - Marie-France Duhamel

"Placing spatial language and cognition in context through an investigate of Bininj Kunwok navigation talk" - Claudia Cialone

Honours:

"Dative Alternation in Tok Pisin - a quantitative corpus study" - Anastasia Likouresis

"Directional Constructions in Matukar Panau - a quantitative corpus study" - Kira Davey

Computer Science Student Research Projects:

"Topic Modelling on Endangered Language" - Bing Bo

co-supervised with Dr Gabriela Ferraro

"Natural Language Processing for Small Languages" - Yufeng Fang

co-supervised with Qiongkai Xu & Dr Gabriela Ferraro