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[allthingslinguistic]

I did a keynote talk about internet linguistics in Canberra, Australia at the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language Summer School at the Australian National University, when I was there last year, and now it’s online! 

[superlinguo]

Superlinguo Classroom Resources, now includes Australian Word Mapping task

These are resources we’ve created for teachers who want fun and engaging classroom activities about language.

A couple of years ago I helped the Linguistics Roadshow produce a survey and some very lovely maps of word variation across Australia. It was a nifty illustration of how most people who rhyme ‘dance’ with ‘aunts’ are from South Australia:

It also showed the battlelines in the potato cake/scallop wars:

I’ve teamed up with Linguistics Roadshow crew once again to turn these maps into a classroom activity, aimed at teaching Australian high school students about language variation. From the activity description on the Superlinguo resources page:

This activity will introduce students to some of the differences in Australian English, and encourage them to consider reasons why languages vary and change. Students will first think about which words they use for particular things, and then explore data showing the patterns across Australia via an interactive map.

You can find this activity, along with others on the Superlinguo resources page.

See also:

Original post on the results of the Australian Words Survey

Mapping Words Around Australia with the Linguistics Roadshow

[gekbarna]

Documenting the Lopit language of South Sudan

When Patrick Owaa arrived in the Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya from his homeland in the Lopit Mountains of South Sudan, he was only 15. That was 20 years ago. Today, having spent more than half his life in the camp, Patrick is taking a leading role as president of the Lopit Community Association in Kakuma, overseeing the community’s efforts to record and document the rich culture of their people.

[gekbarna]

3rd Summer School of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language

Summer School 2017

3rd Summer School of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language

When: 27 November-1 December 2017

Where: The Australian National University, Canberra

The CoEDL Summer Schools are the flagship educational series of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, open to Australian and international students and researchers. Previous successful CoEDL Summer Schools were held at Western Sydney University (2015) and the University of Melbourne (2016). CoEDL Summer Schools draw on expertise across CoEDL's programs and nodes, other Australian linguistics departments, and our international partners to offer educational enrichment and catalyse new research collaborations. Linguists of all backgrounds and interests are welcome; in previous years CoEDL Summer Schools have attracted diverse cohorts ranging from advanced undergraduate students through to professors.

This year’s CoEDL Summer School, with a general Typology theme, will be held from 27 November through 1 December, 2017, at the Australian National University. The Summer School will feature twelve themed courses, on the state-of-the-art in African and Tibeto-Burman linguistics, processing from a typological perspective, the interface between Australian archeology, genetics, and linguistics, and many more topics.

CoEDL has some support for students and unwaged people to attend the summer school.  Deadline 4th August. Click here for further information:http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/education-and-outreach/train-with-us/summer-school-2017/travel-assistance/

Registration

Registration are open. Registration will close in September 2017.

Accommodation

Accommodation can be booked as part of your registration for Summer School. Accommodation will be on campus.

Program

The 2017 Summer School program offers courses in three streams over four days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday). Each course consists of four 1.5 hour sessions over the four days. Each course will have the same timeslot each day.

There will also be a half day FLEx course on Wednesday.

Course syllabi can be found at the following links:

·         Martin Haspelmath - Language Universals

·         Sonia Cristofaro - Typological universals in diachronic perspective

·         Sabine Stoll - Language Acquisition and Typology

·         Damián Blasi & Balthasar Bickel - Quantitative Methods in Language Typology (title to be confirmed)

·         Nick Evans, Peter Hiscock & others - Archaeology and Linguistics of Australia

·         Catherine Travis, James Grama & Simón González - Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century

·         Heather Kember, Karen Mulak & Alba Tuninetti - Processing Typology and 'Typologizing' Processing

·         Mengistu Amberber, Rosey Billington & Hannah Sarvasy - African Languages and Linguistics

·         Felicity Meakins & Francesco Gardani - Language Contact and Morphology

·         Marie-Eve Ritz - Tense, Aspect and Variation

·         Gwen Hyslop - Tibeto-Burman Languages in a Typological Perspective

[gekbarna]

The first written materials for Taemi language, PNG.

This is a special story about a special project.

In 2015, CoEDL CI Rachel Nordlinger began working with Taemi speaker Gertrude Tamade Elai to teach linguistic field methods to a class at the University of Melbourne.

As well as the academic outputs that they had to submit for their assessments, the students worked with Gertrude and Rachel to develop some materials in Taemi for Gertrude to take back to her village of Taemigidu in the Morobe province in Papua New Guinea. The materials included a dictionary and story book.

CoEDL helped with the production of the materials and only last month, Gertrude returned from her village having taken the books over there. It was an amazing trip, given that no one in the village had previously seen a book written in their own language.

[laserhedvig]

“Grambank-coding is soothing, it’s nice when you’re describing a language and you sometimes feel like you don’t know anything - but then you are able to answer these questions about it.” - brilliant Tina Gregor at a Grambank coding session at CoEDL the other day. Tina is another PhD student here at ANU (and recent Grambank poster child). She is describing two endangered languages of West Papua: Yelmek and Maklew. Here she is at the ANU Three Minutes Thesis event talking about her research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMad020aXqM #coedl #lingtyp #anu3mt

[gekbarna]

1ST SUMMER SCHOOL OF ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE 3-7 December, 2015

Sancta Sophia College, 8 Missenden Rd, Camperdown NSW (Sydney) 

Registrations are open for the first Summer School of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (COEDL) This year’s ARC COEDL Summer School features 6 short courses:

• Experimental Research on Language Learning & Processing (Cutler, Escudero, Kalashnikova, Kember, Mulak)

• History of Australian Languages I (Harvey, Mailhammer) 

• History of Australian Languages II (Koch) 

• Making Friends with Your Corpus Data (Hendery, Jones, Meakins, Nicholls) • Statistics for Language Research (Kidd) 

• Video Techniques in Language Documentation (Seyfeddinipur) 

The courses are designed for language researchers. Please see course descriptions for details of any assumed knowledge. Full course descriptions and teacher profiles are available via the Centre’s website www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au 

LOCATION : Located in the heart of Sydney, Sancta Sophia College is a heritage building with modern facilities. Close to Sydney’s CBD and the bohemian Newtown, a dynamic bustling precinct of cafes, restaurants, bars, shops and entertainment. 

COSTS: Registration is free and open to all. Waged attendees are asked to pay $25 per day to assist with catering costs. Full details of how to register are available via www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au 

ACCOMMODATION: Summer School attendees who wish to stay at Sancta Sophia College should book directly with the College. Choice of room types: Single Room with shared bathroom @ $60 per night, Single Room with Ensuite @ $95 per night (limited number), Double Room with Ensuite @ $140 per night (limited number). A booking form is downloadable via the Centre’s webaite as above. There are also many other accommodation options in the area. 

TRAVEL SUPPORT PACKAGES: A limited number of travel support packages for assistance with travel and accommodation expenses are available. Please visit www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au for more application details. * REGISTRATIONS AND ACCOMMODATION BOOKINGS MUST BE FINALISED BY THE 1ST NOVEMBER 2015 *