Abralin Ao Vivo: Fieldwork at a distance
These are the slides from the Abralin panel on Fieldwork at a distance. They go with the youtube and live comment streams available from https://aovivo.abralin.org/en/lives/linguistic-fieldwork-2/...
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Standard Average Australian
My slides for my recent Association for Linguistic Typology Talk on “Standard Average Australian” are now available on Zenodo. The slides are self-explanatory, I think, and the Zenodo page has the long...
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HTK error list
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bromberg/htk_problems.html used to have a really useful list of common htk errors, what they mean, and how to solve them. It was maintained by then graduate student...
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Recently Added to Chirila
Wergaia Holmer’s Darumbal list Mathi-Mathia Sidney May papers Filed under: Chirila Source: Anggarrgoon
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Class on journal article writing
Last spring, I taught a graduate class on how to submit an article to a journal. Our department, like many, has a qualifying paper requirement, where students write two “publishable” or...
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Polygons and centroids now on Zenodo
I’ve updated the polygon and centroid files for Australian language locations, and placed them on Zenodo. This means there’s something stable for you to reference if you want to use them and refer to...
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Videos for Zenodo uploads
I made some videos about how to upload files to the Zenodo repository for Australian languages: is how to sign up for a zenodo account will show you how to upload files to the Australian Languages...
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Color in Pama-Nyungan: update
Last November, Hannah Haynie and I published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on color term systems in Pama-Nyungan. In it, we used phylogenetic methods to show that color...
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New preprint (etc) archive for Australian languages!
I worry about data. It’s my job. I worry about how to analyze it, how to collect it, how to present it, and what happens to it. A particular worry for me at the moment is the very large amount of...
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New bootcamp under way!
The 2017 grammar boot camp starts tomorrow. Three students (with bios below) will be working with me on materials for Noongar. We’re very lucky to be working with Denise Smith-Ali, Noongar linguist,...
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Teaching statement
I’ve finally figured out what I want to put in a teaching statement: http://campuspress.yale.edu/clairebowern/teaching/ I am a linguist and I teach about linguistics, particularly language change and...
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I’ve finally figured out what i want to write in a teaching statement: Teaching
View ArticleRoutledge historical linguistics
I am the editor of a new book series in historical linguistics, to be published by Routledge. We are now accepting publication proposals. The series blurb is below. As you can see, we are interested in...
View ArticleGrammar Boot Camp, 2017
I will again be holding a summer ‘grammar boot camp’ at Yale this summer. The dates will be from Wednesday, June 28 to July 26, 2017. (Note that these dates overlap with the LSA Institute at the...
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Place name articles from the Science of Man journal series. The lexical appendix to David Wilkins’ PhD Thesis on the grammar of Mparntwe Arrernte.
View ArticleNature paper on the genetics of Aboriginal Australia
Somewhat belatedly, here is a link to new work of mine and colleagues’ on gene-language coevolution in Pama-Nyungan, the peopling of Sahul, and migration and admixture in the Pleistocene. It was...
View ArticleVideo of conference talk on Grammar Boot Camps
I run a grammar boot camp every year, where a small group of students write a grammar of a language in a month. Last year it was Ngalia, and this year (starting in a few weeks) it’ll be Cundalee Wangka...
View ArticleLoans in the world’s languages
In preparation for a talk I’m giving this week, I’m posting here three more or less recent papers from my research group on patterns of loanwords. The three papers are here. Bowern2014WW Bowern2011PloS...
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Wambaya: 1702 words (from Rachel Nordlinger) Katthang: 452 words; historical source (from http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~madms/kutthu.html) Enindhilyakwa (Anindilyakwa): 1452 words: unpublished...
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