Research projects
Languages of Southern New Guinea project
The Languages of Southern New Guinea project, the first systematic investigation of the languages of the Southern New Guinea region, with the outcomes including detailed grammatical descriptions of si
The Korean-Japanese spoken discourse project
The Korean-Japanese spoken discourse project, which explores the special features of spoken conversation in Korean and Japanese.
Japanese education
The Japanese education project, which examines a variety of issues in Japanese education in the Australian context.
Indonesian Parallel Grammar (ParGram) project
The project will bring together a multi-site interdisciplinary team of investigators - Jane Simpson (Linguistics, Sydney University, Australia), I Wayan Arka and Avery Andrews (Linguistics, ANU, Austr
Mon-Khmer Languages Project
The Mon-Khmer Languages project is creating essential research and reference resources for the Mon-Khmer language family.
Pragmatic acquisition
The study examines acquisition of the pragmatics of Indonesian by a group of twelve Australian learners participating in an in-country language course of seven weeks duration while living in a homesta
AusTalk (An audio-visual corpus of Australian English)
The AusTalk (An audio-visual corpus of Australian English) project, which aims at compiling a large state-of-the-art database of spoken Australian English from all around the country.
Waiting For Law: Land, Custom and Legal Regulation in East Timor
An ARC discovery project exploring the relationship between legal regulation and customary land tenures in the new Republic of Timor Leste (East Timor).
Seeds of Life in Timor Leste
A bilateral initiative between the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and the East Timor Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Thai Yunnan project
Launched in 1987, the Thai Yunnan project has become a major resource for academics in the area.
