A round of applause for Patsy Bedford and June Oscar, who will be teaching Bunuba at Wesley College in Melbourne (Australian article here). What a fantastic opportunity for the kids! Patsy is the lynchpin of the Fitzroy Crossing annexe of the Kimberley Language Resource Centre, and June is the Chair of the KLRC.
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Last year I spent a large chunk of time reading applications for graduate admissions, and I wrote up a blog post about things that struck me (including things I’d remembered from previous years). It might be useful to anyone planning to compile an application for graduate school this year. These thoughts are in random order [...]
I have rather a lot of comments on the discussion to this post, so I’m moving them to their own post here. To be honest, I’m quite surprised that the commenters have such a negative view of linguistics as a science. Just because a lot of what linguists do is not relevant to language pedagogy, [...]
One of our students had a major issue with the eye-tracking data he's been working on. The upshot is that the result data got irretrievably disassociated from the stimulus, and since it was properly randomised, this is "problematic". We need to find a lot of new subjects in a short space of time.
So… if you're [...]
A couple of research opportunities, one from me, one from Alan Rumsey at ANU:
I've put the announcement for Alan's proposal on Ozpapersonline. Anyone interested in working on this should contact him directly.
I also have a couple of projects in mind, especially for someone who might want to work on Australian historical linguistics. If you want [...]
The Tensor got a nice Chrissie present, in the form of Vox Latina, and in passing poses the question as to whether [ʁ] is a liquid. Dunno. Dunnisne? But it reminds me of a nice example of phonemic organisation (and/or orthography) potentially influencing perception.
In field methods earlier this year we occasionally mistook [ʁ] for an [...]
I’ll be at BLS this weekend. No ‘live’ blogging, because no free wireless, but I’ll try to post summaries. The program is its usual eclectic mix, but there seem to be a lot of talks on complex predicates on the program this year, which I’m looking forward to. AND, a rare event: I am not [...]
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