Research Interests
My research Interests include:
- Australian Aboriginal Languages,
- language and music,
- poetics,
- lexicography,
- semantics,
- language shift and language maintenance,
- language and education.
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Recent Publications
Articles and books on Arandic languages and songs
- 2006, "Phonological and Rhythmic Correspondences in a Central Australian Aboriginal song series” Musicology Australia 2006:7(in press)
- 2005, ‘Form and meaning of Akwelye: a Kaytetye women's song series from Central Australia’. Phd thesis, Universty of Sydney, NSW.
- 2004, with Alison Ross, Awelye Akwelye: Kaytetye women's songs from Arnerre, Central Australia. Papulu Apparr-kari language and culture centre, Tennant Creek. Recordings by Grace, Koch, Linda Barwick and Myfany Turpin, commentary by Myfany Turpin and Alison Ross.
- 2004, with Alison Ross, Kaytetye Picture Dictionary. IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT.
- 2003 Growing Up Kaytetye. Stories by Tommy Kngwarraye Thompson. IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT.
- 2002 "Body parts in Kaytetye feeling expressions" in Wierzbicka A. and Enfield, N. (eds) The Body in Description of Emotions. Special Edition of Pragmatics and Cognition. 10:1/2, pp 271-341.
- 2001, with Jenny Green, "Common sense: Continuing the Comparative Tradition" in Simpson, Jane; David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin and Barry Alpher (eds.) Forty Years On. Ken Hale and Australian languages. Pacific Linguistics Series:Canberra, pp 89-111.
- 2000 A Learner's Guide to Kaytetye. IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT.
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Current Projects
Cultural Signs of Central Australia
Project Team: Dr. Myfany Turpin, Alison Ross
Funding: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torre Strait and Aboriginal Studies (AIATSIS)
The project documents cultural signs in Central Australian Aboriginal languages. These are the social and environmental indicators used by Aboriginal people in Central Australia . For example there are signs that tell people when food is available, predict the weather, warn people of bad events and signal when certain kin are coming. Much of this knowledge is in danger of being lost as Aboriginal society is rapidly changing. Many Aboriginal people are concerned that such knowledge should be documented and that resources should be created to assist in the teaching of this knowledge.
Read more about Desert Knowledge at SSPR
Kaytetye to English Dictionary
Literacy learning and development in Central Australian languages for Indigenous language speakers
Arandic Songs
- Post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Queensland; funded by Endangered Language Documentation Program
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