Blackwood by the Beach 2005
Workshop on Australian Aboriginal Languages
March 18-20, 2005
University of Sydney,
Crommelin Field Station, Pearl Beach, NSW
Friday 18th March
(Transient Building 110, University of Sydney)
Computers and field linguistics
9.00 meet, have coffee
9.30 - 11 Nick Thieberger
1. Overview - the need for well-structured data
Benefits for our everyday work as well as for longterm reuse of the data
Illustration of a workflow for linguistic data.
2. Time-aligned transcription using Transcriber (Elan also discussed), illustration of a media corpus using Audiamus
3. Time-aligned transcripts into interlinearising software - Shoebox (+Toolbox)
4. Using a controlled vocabulary in interlinearising to establish a lexicon/dictionary - Shoebox.
11 - 11.30 Morning tea and discussion in tea-room
11.30 - 12 Tour of PARADISEC archive in Transient Building
12 - 1 Lunch
1- 2.30 Nick Thieberger
5. Dictionary functions in Shoebox
6. Interlinearising with Shoebox
7. Manipulating text with regular expressions so that it can move between the various applications.
8. If there's time, a brief illustration of outputs of Shoebox in Kirrkirr and LexiquePro
2.30 - 3 Tom Honeyman XML and the Ngardi lexicon
3 - 3.30 Discussion and afternoon tea
3.30 - 4 Baden Hughes and Michael Walsh
The NSW Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Database.
4 - 4.30 Baden Hughes and Patrick McConvell
AIATSIS Web Indigenous Languages Database.
Head to WoyWoy (Ye Old WoyWoy Hotel) and to Crommeling Field Station, Pearl Beach
Saturday 19th March
(Crommelin Field Station, Pearl Beach)
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9.00-9.40 |
Alan Dench |
What is this?' Proximal Demonstratives and Interrogative Pronouns in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia |
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9.40-10.20 |
Sarah Cutfield |
A preliminary survey of demonstratives in Dalabon |
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10.20-10.40 |
MORNING TEA |
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10.40-11.20 |
Joe Blythe |
Referential tracking in Murrinh-Patha |
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11.20-12.00 |
Ruth Singer |
Perception verb complements in Mawng |
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12.00-12.40 |
Jane Simpson |
Word order in Warlpiri |
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12.40-2.00 |
LUNCH |
Discussion of Typological Discourse Analysis of Australian languages Project – Lesley Stirling, Ilana Mushin, Brett Baker) |
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2.00-2.40 |
Isabel Bickerdike |
From particles to auxiliaries: some evidence from Wayilwan Ngiyambaa and Wangaaybuwan Ngiyamabaa |
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2.40-3.20 |
Nick Evans, Linda Barwick, Bruce Birch, Murray Garde |
Quick, tell me what you're thinking before the moon comes up |
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3.20-3.40 |
AFTERNOON TEA |
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3.40-4.20 |
Harold Koch |
The naturalness of morphology in Australian languages |
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4.20-5.00 |
David Nash |
Vehicle loan words |
| EVENING: BBQ AT CROMMELIN | ||
Sunday 20th March 2005
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9.00-9.40 |
Brett Baker |
Compounds, names and nominal phrases in Australian languages |
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9.40-10.20 |
Mark Harvey |
Gulumoerrgin nominal classification |
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10.20-10.40 |
MORNING TEA |
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10.40-11.20 |
Heather Bowe |
Working on the Indigenous languages of Victoria - interpreting the phonetic/phonological structure of recorded vocabularies
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11.20-12.00 |
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Issues arising in reclaiming the indigenous languages of NSW - a NSW Aboriginal perspective |
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12.00-12.40 |
Christina Eira |
Morphology of a language of renewal: the relearning, revising and recreating practices of Narungga people |
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12.40-2.00 |
LUNCH |
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2.00-2.40 |
Rache Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler |
Coordination strategies in Australian languages |
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2.40-3.20 |
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Volition, intention and causation in Kuuk Thaayorre |
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