Pointing accuracy has little to do with spatial frames of reference
Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija and English conversations. An open access publication by Caroline de Dear, Joe Blythe,...
CIARA
Conversational Interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia
2022 Warmun fieldtrip
by Caroline de Dear After several years of COVID-19 lockdowns and border closures, my family and I finally made it to Warmun (WA) for my...
2022 East Kimberley fieldtrip
By Joe Blythe Over the last two years the Covid pandemic has made it very difficult to conduct fieldwork in the Kimberley as many remote...
JoP Special Issue on Turn design and epistemic management in small communities
Our special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics has finally reached the presses! This is the first major publication coming from the...
A new method for analysing spatial points in casual conversation
Possemato et al. (2021 p. 327) Referring to places is a fundamental activity in human interaction, one that pervades our daily...
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...