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Murrinhpatha speaking children’s understanding of their kinship lexicon and grammar

Among the vast number of things children need to learn about language is how to appropriately refer to other people. One way to do this...

Jaru and Gija Language Snapshots on Language Documentation and Description 17

Two Language Snapshots on Jaru and Gija have just been published in Language Documentation and Description: de Dear, Caroline, Francesco...

Third Jaru fieldtrip

From late July to early September, Josh spent six weeks in Yaruman (WA) to expand our corpus of casual conversation in Jaru and to...

First Borroloola fieldtrip

Ilana recently spent two weeks (July 22-Aug3) in Borroloola to (finally) begin recording new Garrwa conversations. She met up with Glenn...

Second Kimberley English fieldtrip

Lesley and Rod visited Kununurra and Wyndham between 17-26 May in our second fieldtrip for the Kimberley English sub-project – following...

CIARA at the Australian Languages Workshop (ALW2019)

CIARA had its first conference outing for 2019 at the Australian Languages Workshop (March 15-17) in Marysville, Victoria. Lesley...

Second Jaru fieldtrip

From mid-September to mid-November 2018, Josh had the pleasure of spending two months in Yaruman (Ringer Soak) where he continued...

Relatively orthodox turn-taking within Australian Aboriginal conversations

Tools of engagement: selecting a next speaker in Australian Aboriginal multiparty conversations Joe Blythe, Rod Gardner, Ilana Mushin,...

First Jaru fieldtrip

In June and July 2018 Joe Blythe and Lesley Stirling joined forces for the first of the project’s field trips in the east Kimberley...

Welcome to the CIARA Blog

The CIARA blog is the public face of the project Conversational Interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia. We will here be providing...

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