Professor Felicity Meakins
Linguistics Major Convenor
Professor & Professor
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 53114
Researcher biography
I am a Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures. I am also a Fellow in the Academy for Social Sciences Australia (ASSA), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (AAH) and an Australian FulbrightSenior Scholar 2025-2026. I was also the Deputy Director of the UQ node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language which finished in 2022.
Some of my research focuses on language evolution and contact processes across northern Australia where I have worked for the past two decades. In 2021, I won the Eureka Award for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research together with Cassandra Algy, Lindell Bromham and Xia Hua for this work. My new ARC DP Project 'Dingo Lingo' with Myf Turpin and Linda Barwick (U-Syd) is looking at canine words across northern Australia to understand their spread across the continent and their relationship with First Nations Peoples. My interests are also in the relationship between Indigenous Knowledges and Western Science. One place this exploration plays out is in my co-authored book 'Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country' (Hardie Grant, 2023) which won the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Children's Literature.
I have co-compiled four dictionaries (Gurindji, Bilinarra, Ngarinyman and Mudburra) and two grammars (Bilinarra and Gurindji) and two ethnobiologies (Bilinarra/Gurindji/Malngin and Jingulu/Mudburra). I am also the author of Case-Marking in Contact (Benjamins, 2011), co-author of Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork (Routledge, 2018) and Songs from the Stations (Sydney University Press, 2019) and co-editor of Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages since Colonisation (Mouton, 2016) and Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country (2016, Aboriginal Studies Press). I have also authored over 55 papers on language contact and change in academic volumes and journals. In 2021, I also won the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)'s Kenneth L Hale Award for linguistic fieldwork.
I studied at the University of Queensland between 1995-2001. Between 2001-04, I worked as a community linguist at Diwurruwurru-jaru Aboriginal Corporation facilitating revitalisation programs for Bilinarra and Ngarinyman people. I joined the Aboriginal Child Language project (University of Melbourne) in 2004 as a PhD student. I completed my PhD in 2008 and continued documenting Gurindji, Bilinarra and Gurindji Kriol as a part of the Jaminjungan and Eastern Ngumpin DOBES project, then with my own ELDP grant at the University of Manchester and finally returned to UQ with an ARC APD, DECRA and Future Fellowship. I have also held an ARC DP with Rob Pensalifini which studied contact between Mudburra and Jingulu and Mudburra and Kriol.
Books
Tudor, Gari, Williams, Paul and Meakins, Felicity (2024). Bina: First Nations languages, old and new. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc.
Wadrill, Violet, Dodd Ngarnjal, Topsy, Leaman, Leah, Algy, Cassandra, Edwards, Cecelia, Meakins, Felicity, Barr, Briony and Crocetti, Gregory (2023). Tamarra: a story of termites on Gurindji Country. Sydney, Australia: Hardie Grant Publishing.
Meakins, Felicity and McConvell, Patrick (2021). A grammar of Gurindji: as spoken by Violet Wadrill, Ronnie Wavehill, Dandy Danbayarri, Biddy Wavehill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Long Johnny Kijngayarri, Banjo Ryan, Pincher Nyurrmiari and Blanche Bulngari. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110746884
Wadrill, Violet, Wavehill, Biddy Yamawurr, Dodd, Topsy Ngarnjal and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Karu: Growing up Gurindji. Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press.
Jones, Caroline, Denniss, Jessica, Schultze-Berndt, Eva and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Ngarinyman to English dictionary. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Dixon, Shannon Kulngankarri, Hughes, Wendy, Dixon, Janey Walanyku Lunjabirni, Dixon, Raymond Dimakarri, Bill, Maureen, Bill, Sarah, Bill, Raylene, Kingston, Susan, Nangkurrunyungu, Johnny Devlin, Hamilton-Hollaway, Amanda, Osgarby, David, Pensalfini, Rob and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Birrka marnini: making things Mudburra. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Press.
Green, Rebecca, Green, Jennifer, Hamilton-Hollaway, Amanda, Meakins, Felicity, Osgarby, David and Pensalfini, Rob (2019). Mudburra to English Dictionary. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Turpin, Myfany and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Songs from the stations: Wajarra as performed by Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpnga, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal and Dandy Danbayarri, with additional verses by Patrick Smith, Jack Gordon and Marie Gordon. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.
Meakins, Felicity, Green, Jennifer and Turpin, Myfany (2018). Understanding linguistic fieldwork. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203701294
Raymond, Pompey, Dixon, Pharlap, Dixon, Sue, Dixon, Shannon, Dixon, Ray, Dixon, Jeffrey, Dixon, Janey, Dixon, Elizabeth, Raymond, Mark, Dalywaters, Harold, Collins, Jumbo, Woods, Robin, Peterson-Cooper, Eileen, Meakins, Felicity, Pensalfini, Rob and Wightman, Glenn (2018). Jingulu and Mudburra plants and animals: biocultural knowledge of the Jingili and Mudburra people of Murranji, Marlinja, Warranganku (Beetaloo) and Kulumindini (Elliott), Northern Territory, Australia. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Institute.
Wadrill, Violet, Wavehill Yamawurr, Biddy and Meakins, Felicity (2015). Kawarla: how to make a coolamon. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Press.
Meakins, Felicity and Nordlinger, Rachel (2014). A grammar of Bilinarra: an Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781614512745
Meakins, Felicity, McConvell, Patrick, Charola, Erika, McNair, Norm, McNair, Helen and Campbell, Lauren (2013). Gurindji to English dictionary. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2013). Bilinarra to English dictionary. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Press.
Hector, Ivy Kulngari, Jungurra Kalabidi, George, Banjo, Spider, Nangari Ngarnjal Dodd, Topsy, Jangala Wirrba Wavehill, Ronnie, Danbayarri, Dandy, Nanaku Wadrill, Violet, Puntiyarri, Bernard, Bernard Malyik, Ida, Wavehill, Biddy, Morris, Helen, Campbell, Lauren, Meakins, Felicity and Wightmann, Glenn (2012). Bilinarra, Gurindji and Malngin plants and animals: Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Nijburru, Kalkarindji and Daguragu, Northern Australia. Katherine, NT, Australia: Bilinarra, Gurindji and Malngin People; Department of Land Resource Management.
Meakins, Felicity (2011). Case-marking in contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Book Chapters
Meakins, Felicity (2023). The land still speaks: supporting First Nations languages in Australia. The social future of Australia: the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. (pp. 30-33) edited by Kevin McConkey and Chris Hatherly. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Meakins, Felicity, Ennever, Thomas, Osgarby, David, Browne, Mitch and Hamilton-Hollaway, Amanda (2022). Ngumpin-Yapa languages. Oxford guide to Australian languages. (pp. xxx-xxx) edited by Claire Bowern. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198824978.003.0076
Dunn, Vivien and Meakins, Felicity (2022). Ergativity. Oxford guide to Australian languages. (pp. 217-225) edited by Claire Bowern. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198824978.003.0020
Dandy, Kira, Dandy, Jezebel and Meakins, Felicity (2022). Wavehill, Ronnie (1936–2000). Indigenous Australian dictionary of biography. (pp. xxx-xxx) Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU.
Meakins, Felicity and Stewart, Jesse (2022). Mixed languages. The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact. (pp. 310-343) edited by Saliko Mufwene and Anna María Escobar. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009105965.016
Dunn, Vivien, Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2021). Acquisition or shift: Interpreting variation in Gurindji children’s expression of spatial relations. Variation Rolls the Dice. (pp. 105-131) edited by Aboh, Enoch and Vigouroux, Cécile. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/coll.59.05dun
Stewart, Jesse and Meakins, Felicity (2021). Advances in mixed language phonology: an overview of three case studies. New perspectives on mixed languages: from core to fringe. (pp. 57-92) edited by Maria Mazzoli and Eeva Sippola. Boston, United States: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9781501511257-003
Meakins, Felicity and Wilmoth, Sasha (2020). Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol. The complexities of morphology. (pp. 81-104) edited by Arkadiev, Peter and Gardani, Francesco. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198861287.003.0004
Meakins, Felicity (2020). Typological factors. The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact. (pp. 185-200) edited by Adamou, Evangelia and Matras, Yaron. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Meakins, Felicity (2020). Australia and the south west Pacific. Handbook of Pidgin and Creole languages. (pp. 88-105) edited by Meyerhoff, Miriam and Ansaldo, Umberto. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Bond, Oliver, Meakins, Felicity and Nordlinger, Rachel (2019). Prominent possessor indexing in Gurindji. Prominent internal possessors. (pp. 80-106) edited by András Bárány, Oliver Bond and Irina Nikolaeva. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198812142.003.0003
Meakins, Felicity (2019). Morphology. Language contact: an international handbook. (pp. 63-75) edited by Jeroen Darquennes, Joe Salmons and Wim Vandenbussche. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110435351-006
Croft, Brenda, Toussaint, Sandy, Meakins, Felicity and McConvell, Patrick (2019). For the children...”: Aboriginal Australia, cultural access, and archival obligation. Archival returns: Central Australia and beyond. (pp. 173-191) edited by Barwick, Linda, Green, Jennifer and Vaarzon-Morel, Petronella. Sydney, NSW Australia: Sydney University Press.
Fraser, Henry, Mushin, Ilana, Meakins, Felicity and Gardner, Rod (2018). Dis, that and da other: variation in Aboriginal children's article and demonstrative use at school. Language practices of Indigenous children and youth: the transition from home to school. (pp. 237-269) edited by Gillian Wigglesworth, Jane Simpson and Jill Vaughan. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-60120-9_10
Meakins, Felicity (2018). Mixed languages. Oxford research encyclopedias: Literature. (pp. 1-29) edited by Mark Aronoff. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.151
Meakins, Felicity (2017). The carbines were talking English: violence and language in the colonisation of Gurindji country. Still in my mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality. (pp. 73-75) edited by Brenda L. Croft, Penny Smith and Felicity Meakins. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: UQ Art Museum.
Meakins, Felicity and Charola, Erika (2016). Introduction. Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country. (pp. 1-4) edited by Erika Beatriz Charola and Felicity Helen Meakins. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity and Pensalfini, Rob (2016). Gender bender: Disagreement in Jingulu noun class marking. Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation. (pp. 425-450) edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Meakins, Felicity (2016). No fixed address: The grammaticalisation of the Gurindji locative as a progressive suffix. Loss and renewal: Australian languages since colonisation. (pp. 367-396) edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
O'Shannessy, Carmel and Meakins, Felicity (2016). Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective. Loss and renewal: Australian languages since colonisation. (pp. 3-26) edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Meakins, Felicity and Charola, Erika (2016). European and further accounts of the early murders. Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country. (pp. 80-83) edited by Erika Beatriz Charola and Felicity Helen Meakins. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2016). Conditions under the Vesteys. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 182-186) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2016). Background to the removal of children. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 135-136) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity and Charola, Erika (2016). European accounts of the flood and its consequences. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 112-114) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity and Charola, Erika (2016). Other accounts of settlement characters. Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country. (pp. 194-196) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2016). Police reports of Gordon Stott. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 228-229) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Charola, Erika and Meakins, Felicity (2016). Official and newspaper accounts of Wave Hill in early air searches. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 144-145) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Charola, Erika and Meakins, Felicity (2016). Other reported accounts of conflict. Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country. (pp. 67-72) edited by Erika Beatriz Charola and Felicity Helen Meakins. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2015). From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: the life cycle of the Gurindji ergative suffix. Borrowed morphology. (pp. 189-218) edited by Francesco Gardani, Peter Arkadiev and Nino Amiridze. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781614513209.189
Meakins, Felicity (2014). Nominals as arguments or adjuncts: further evidence from language mixing. Language description informed by theory. (pp. 283-315) edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing. doi: 10.1075/slcs.147.12mea
Meakins, Felicity (2014). Language contact varieties. The languages and linguistics of Australia: a comprehensive guide. (pp. 365-416) edited by Harold Koch and Rachel Nordlinger. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110279771.365
Meakins, Felicity (2013). Gurindji Kriol. Contact languages based on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. (pp. 131-139) edited by Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath and Magnus Huber. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Schultze-Berndt, Eva, Meakins, Felicity and Angelo, Denise (2013). Kriol. English-Based and Dutch-Based Languages. (pp. 241-251) edited by Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath and Magnus Huber. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2013). Mixed languages. Contact languages: a comprehensive guide. (pp. 159-228) edited by Peter Bakker and Yaron Matras. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Meakins, Felicity (2010). The importance of understanding language ecologies for revitalisation. Reawakening languages: Theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages. (pp. 225-239) edited by John Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch and Michael Walsh. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2009). The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case. (pp. 59-91) edited by J. Barddal and S. Chelliah. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/slcs.108.06mea
Meakins, Felicity (2008). Unravelling languages: Multilingualism and language contact in Kalkaringi. Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school. (pp. 283-302) edited by Jane Simpson and Gillian Wigglesworth. London, U.K.: Continuum.
Meakins, Felicity (2008). Land, language and identity: The socio-political origins of Gurindji Kriol. Social lives in language - sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities : celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff. (pp. 69-94) edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Journal Articles
Jones, Caroline, Tran, Jesse, Jorgensen, Eleanor, Hill, Romi, Ellis, Patricia, Simpson, Jane, Meakins, Felicity, Foley, Ben, Reverter-Rambaldi, Marcel, Tudor-Smith, Gari, Williams, Paul, Hill, Clair and Richards, Mark (2024). WordSpinner: Developing a tool to convert plain-text lexicon files into dictionary webpages. Language Documentation and Conservation, 18, 109-131.
Meakins, Felicity (2023). The third space in the fourth column: revisiting the role of agency in the formation of Creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 38 (2), 431-445. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00117.mea
Meakins, Felicity (2023). What have we missed? : Theorising about Creoles in the absence of Melanesia and Australia. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 38 (1), 170-187. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00109.mea
Meakins, Felicity (2023). Quantifying the language dynamics of bilingual communities. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13 (1), 76-82. doi: 10.1075/lab.22059.mea
Green, Jennifer, Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2022). Tradition and innovation: using sign language in a Gurindji community in Northern Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 42 (2), 1-26. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2022.2105137
Meakins, Felicity (2022). Empiricism or imperialism: the science of Creole Exceptionalism. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 37 (1), 189-203. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00092.mea
Sloan, Bodean, Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2022). Intergenerational changes in Gurindji Kriol: Comparing apparent-time and real-time data. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 8 (1), 1-31. doi: 10.1075/aplv.21001.slo
Bromham, Lindell, Dinnage, Russell, Skirgård, Hedvig, Ritchie, Andrew, Cardillo, Marcel, Meakins, Felicity, Greenhill, Simon and Hua, Xia (2022). Erratum: publisher correction: global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity (Nature ecology & evolution (2022) 6 2 (163-173)). Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6 (2), 231-231. doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01684-4
Hua, Xia, Meakins, Felicity, Algy, Cassandra and Bromham, Lindell (2022). Language change in multidimensional space: new methods for modelling linguistic coherence. Language Dynamics and Change, 12 (1), 78-123. doi: 10.1163/22105832-bja10015
Meakins, Felicity (2022). The word wide web: a mycelial turn in the conceptualisation and modelling of language evolution. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 37 (2), 396-416. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00099.mea
Bromham, Lindell, Dinnage, Russell, Skirgård, Hedvig, Ritchie, Andrew, Cardillo, Marcel, Meakins, Felicity, Greenhill, Simon and Hua, Xia (2021). Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6 (2), 163-173. doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01604-y
Meakins, Felicity, Pensalfini, Rob, Zipf, Caitlin and Hamilton-Hollaway, Amanda (2020). Lend me your verbs: verb borrowing between Jingulu and Mudburra. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 40 (3), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2020.1804830
Meakins, Felicity, Disbray, Samantha and Simpson, Jane (2020). Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? The direction of case syncretisms. Morphology, 30 (4), 373-393. doi: 10.1007/s11525-020-09357-3
Meakins, Felicity and Pensalfini, Rob (2020). Holding the mirror up to converted languages: two grammars, one lexicon. International Journal of Bilingualism, 25 (2), 136700692092246-457. doi: 10.1177/1367006920922461
Stewart, Jesse, Meakins, Felicity, Algy, Cassandra, Ennever, Thomas and Joshua, Angelina (2020). Fickle fricatives: Fricative and stop perception in Gurindji Kriol, Roper Kriol, and Standard Australian English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147 (4), 2766-2778. doi: 10.1121/10.0000991
Bromham, L., Hua, X., Algy, C. and Meakins, F. (2020). Language endangerment: a multidimensional analysis of risk factors. Journal of Language Evolution, 5 (1), 75-91. doi: 10.1093/jole/lzaa002
Turpin, Myfany, Meakins, Felicity, Mudgedell, Marie, Tchooga, Angie and Yeoh, Calista (2020). 'Puranguwana': ‘Perishing in the sun’ as sung by Patrick Smith, Jack Gordon and Marie Gordon. Aboriginal History, 44, 59-88.
Meakins, Felicity, Hua, Xia , Algy, Cassandra and Bromham, Lindell (2019). Birth of a contact language did not favor simplification. Language, 95 (2), 294-332. doi: 10.1353/lan.2019.0032
Pensalfini, Rob and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Gender lender: noun borrowings between Jingulu and Mudburra in northern Australia. Journal of Language Contact, 12 (2), 440-478. doi: 10.1163/19552629-01202007
Stewart, Jesse, Meakins, Felicity, Algy, Cassandra and Joshua, Angelina (2018). The Development of Phonological Stratification: Evidence from Stop Voicing Perception in Gurindji Kriol and Roper Kriol. Journal of Language Contact, 11 (1), 71-112. doi: 10.1163/19552629-01101003
Ennever, Thomas, Meakins, Felicity and Round, Erich (2017). A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8 (1) 20. doi: 10.5334/labphon.18
van den Bos, Jackie, Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2017). Searching for “Agent Zero”: the origins of a relative case system. Language Ecology, 1 (1), 4-24. doi: 10.1075/le.1.1.02van
Meakins, Felicity and Nordlinger, Rachel (2017). Possessor dissension: agreement mismatch in Ngumpin-Yapa possessive constructions. Linguistic Typology, 21 (1), 143-188. doi: 10.1515/lingty-2017-0004
Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2016). Deadly reckoning: changes in Gurindji children’s knowledge of cardinals. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 36 (4), 479-501. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2016.1169973
Meakins, Felicity, Jones, Caroline and Algy, Cassandra (2015). Bilingualism, language shift and the corresponding expansion of spatial cognitive systems. Language Sciences, 54, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2015.06.002
Meakins, Felicity (2015). Not obligatory: bound pronoun variation in Gurindji and Bilinarra. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 1 (2), 128-161. doi: 10.1075/aplv.1.2.02mea
Jones, Caroline and Meakins, Felicity (2013). The phonological forms and perceived functions of janyarrp, the Gurindji 'baby talk' register. Lingua, 134, 170-193. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.07.004
Jones, Caroline and Meakins, Felicity (2013). Variation in voice onset time in stops in Gurindji Kriol: picture naming and conversational speech. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 33 (2), 196-220. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2013.814525
Meakins, Felicity and Wigglesworth, Gillian (2013). How much input is enough? Correlating comprehension and child language input in an endangered language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 34 (2), 171-188. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2012.733010
Jones, Caroline, Meakins, Felicity and Muawiyath, Shujau (2012). Learning vowel categories from maternal speech in Gurindji Kriol. Language Learning, 62 (4), 1052-1078. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00725.x
O'Shannessy, Carmel and Meakins, Felicity (2012). Comprehension of competing argument marking systems in two Australian mixed languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15 (2), 378-396. doi: 10.1017/S1366728911000307
Meakins, Felicity and O'Shannessy, Carmel (2012). Typological constraints on verb integration in two Australian mixed languages1,2. Journal of Language Contact, 5 (2), 216-246. doi: 10.1163/19552629-006001001
Meakins, Felicity (2012). Which mix? Code-switching or a mixed language: Gurindji Kriol. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 27 (1), 105-140. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.27.1.03mea
Jones, Caroline, Meakins, Felicity and Buchan, Heather (2011). Comparing vowels in Gurindji Kriol and Katherine English: Citation speech data. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31 (3), 305-326. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2011.598629
Meakins, Felicity (2011). Borrowing contextual inflection: evidence from northern Australia. Morphology, 21 (1), 57-87. doi: 10.1007/s11525-010-9163-4
Meakins, Felicity (2011). Spaced out: Inter-generational changes in the expression of spatial relations by Gurindji people. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31 (1), 43-77. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2011.532857
Meakins, Felicity and O'Shannessy, Carmel (2010). Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages. Lingua, 120 (7), 1693-1713. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.05.013
Meakins, F (2010). The development of asymmetrical serial verb constructions in an Australian mixed language. Linguistic Typology, 14 (1), 1-38. doi: 10.1515/LITY.2010.001
Meakins, Felicity (2009). Final Cut Pro: from Apple, Inc. Journal of Language Documentation and Conservation, 3 (1), 125-130.
Meakins, Felicity (2007). Computerized Language Analysis (CLAN) from The CHILDES Project. Journal of Language Documentation and Conservation, 1 (1), 107-112.
Meakins, Felicity and O'Shannessy, Carmel (2005). Possessing variation: Age and inalienability related variables in the possessive constructions of two Australian mixed languages. Monash University Linguistics Papers, 4 (2), 43-63.
McConvell, Patrick and Meakins, Felicity (2005). Gurindji Kriol: A mixed language emerges from code-switching. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 25 (1), 9-30. doi: 10.1080/07268600500110456
Meakins, Felicity (2000). Reknowing the bicycle: Renewing its space. M/C Reviews, 6, 1-1.
Meakins, Felicity and Rintel, Sean (2000). Editorial: 'Chat'. M/C Journal, 3 (4)
Meakins, Felicity (2000). Review of The Lingo: Listening to Australian English by Graham Seal Sydney: UNSW Press. Journal of Australian Studies, 24 (65), 216-217. doi: 10.1080/14443050009387605
Ensor, Jason and Meakins, Felicity H. (1999). 'End'. M/C: A Journal of media & culture, 2 (8)
Meakins, Felicity (1999). De Mortuis Bonum: An internet eulogy tour. M - C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 2 (7)
Meakins, Felicity (1999). The subject of Howard's desire: Passive sentences and political intention. M / C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 2 (5), x-x.
Meakins, Felicity H. (1999). Shooting Baywatch: Resisting cultural invasion. M/C: A journal of media & culture, 2 (2).
Thesis
Meakins, F. (2001). Lashings of Tongue: A Relevance Theroetic Account of Impoliteness. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.