Nick Thieberger

Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Date: 06-12-2017

DOI: 10.1515/LING-2017-0032

Abstract: This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articulate our expectations for how linguistic data are managed, cited, and maintained for long-term access.

Community-Led Documentation of Nafsan (Erakor, Vanuatu)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Date: 2022

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05328-3_8

Hypothetically Speaking

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 18-01-2023

DOI: 10.4324/9781003260288-15

Making Meaning of Historical Papua New Guinea Recordings

Publisher: Edinburgh University Library

Date: 1970

DOI: 10.2218/IJDC.V14I1.598

Abstract: PARADISEC’s PNG collections represent the great ersity in the regions and languages of PNG. In 2016 and 2017, in recognition of the value of PARADISEC’s collections, ANDS (the Australian National Data Service) provided funding for us to concentrate efforts on enhancing the metadata that describes our Papua New Guinea (PNG) collections, an effort designed to maximise the findability and useability of the language and music recordings preserved in the archive for both source communities and researchers. PARADISEC's subsequent engagement with PNG language experts has led to collaborations with members of speaker communities who are part of the PNG diaspora in Australia. In this paper, we show that making historical recordings more findable, accessible and better described can result in meaningful interactions with and responses to the data in source communities. The effects of empowering speaker communities in their relationships to archives can be far reaching – even inverting, or disrupting the power relationships that have resulted from the colonial histories in which archives are embedded.

Assessing Annotated Corpora as Research Output

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 07-12-2015

DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2016.1109428

When Your Data is My Grandparents Singing. Digitisation and Access for Cultural Records, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)

Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

Date: 2022

DOI: 10.5334/DSJ-2022-009

Acoustic evidence for right-edge prominence in Nafsan

Publisher: Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Date: 04-2020

DOI: 10.1121/10.0000995

Abstract: Oceanic languages are often described as preferring primary stress on penultimate syllables, but detailed surveys show that many different types of prominence patterns have been reported across and within Oceanic language families. In some cases, these interact with segmental and phonotactic factors, such as syllable weight. The range of Oceanic prominence patterns is exemplified across Vanuatu, a linguistically erse archipelago with over 130 languages. However, both impressionistic and instrumentally-based descriptions of prosodic patterns and their correlates are limited for languages of this region. This paper investigates prominence in Nafsan, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu for which previous observations of prominence differ. Acoustic and durational results for disyllabic and trisyllabic Nafsan words show a clear pattern of higher fundamental frequency values in final syllables, regardless of vowel length, pointing towards a preference for prominence at the right edge of words. Short vowels also show centralisation in penultimate syllables, providing supporting evidence for right-edge prominence and informing the understanding of vowel deletion processes in Nafsan.

Nafsan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 10-08-2023

DOI: 10.1017/S0025100321000177

Abstract: Nafsan (ISO 639-3: erk, Glottocode: sout2856), also known as South Efate, is a Southern Oceanic language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Erakor, Eratap and Pango, three villages situated along the southern coast of the island of Efate (Figure 1) (Clark 1985, Lynch 2000, Thieberger 2006). Nafsan is also closely related to Eton, Lelepa, Nakanamanga and Namakura, spoken further to the north on Efate and some smaller neighbouring islands.1 Nafsan is often described as the southernmost member of the North-Central Vanuatu group of languages, and the Nafsan and Eton-speaking communities are noted to be at the core of ‘an unmistakable area of innovation’ compared to their northern neighbours (Clark 1985: 25). Though crosslinguistic comparisons suggest a clear boundary between North-Central Vanuatu languages and languages of the Southern Vanuatu group, there is evidence that Nafsan speakers have both linguistic and cultural links to the southern islands, suggestive of complex historical relationships between the populations of the central and southern regions (Lynch 2004 Thieberger 2007, 2015). In terms of the sound system, Nafsan is noted to be of particular interest because it ‘forms a transition between the phonologically more conservative languages to the north and the more “aberrant” languages to the south’ (Lynch 2000: 320), and exhibits phonotactic patterns which are complex and typologically uncommon, particularly among Oceanic languages (Thieberger 2006).

ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT140100214

Start Date: 09-2014

End Date: 09-2019

Amount: $756,404.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450342

Start Date: 01-2004

End Date: 12-2007

Amount: $213,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100094

Start Date: 06-2015

End Date: 07-2019

Amount: $359,489.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

ARC Centres Of Excellence - Grant ID: CE140100041

Start Date: 08-2014

End Date: 12-2022

Amount: $28,000,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Equipment And Facilities Upgrade For Asia Pacific And Regional Archive For Digital Sources In Endangered Cultures

Start Date: 2011

End Date: 2011

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984419

Start Date: 07-2009

End Date: 09-2014

Amount: $719,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0566965

Start Date: 12-2005

End Date: 12-2007

Amount: $100,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE220100010

Start Date: 07-2022

End Date: 06-2024

Amount: $620,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE110100142

Start Date: 06-2011

End Date: 12-2011

Amount: $238,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354738

Start Date: 01-2004

End Date: 12-2003

Amount: $10,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE210100013

Start Date: 07-2021

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $600,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

ARC Centre Of Excellence For The Dynamics Of Language

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 2020

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354848

Start Date: 03-2004

End Date: 12-2004

Amount: $20,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council