School of Languages and Cultures

Summer Research Program: 2020-2021

AVAILABLE PROJECTS

  1. Training interdisciplinary genre awareness through blended learning: An exploration into EAP students’ online annotation of genres across disciplines
  2. Negotiating knowledge in Garrwa conversation
  3. School to university: Journeys of Japanese language learners in Queensland
  4. Creation of web-based language technology learning and teaching resources
  5. Developing e-Dictionaries
  1. Language in social interaction: Exploring humour, identity and offence
  2. Investigations of validity and reliability of C-test and Elicited Imitation task in Japanese
  3. Quantitative and qualitative data management in language studies
  4. The critical investigation of textbooks in South Korea and China
  5. Building an electronic Kukatja language corpus

10. Building an electronic Kukatja language corpus

Project duration:

8 weeks
23 November to 18 December 2020
11 January to 5 February 2021

Description:

This project involves the construction of an online corpus of Kukatja, a Wati language spoken in Wirrimanu, Western Australia. The data originates in three fieldtrips conducted by Dr Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia and the available dictionary and materials produced by the Wakala Language Centre.

The finalised corpus will be made available to the Kukatja community in Wirrimanu (Balgo) and will be used for the study of contact phenomena and the development of a formal account of the language in terms of Semantic Syntax (SeSyn).

Number of hours per week: 

20 hours per week

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

Summer Research scholars will gain hands on experience in using ELAN, a language copora annotation software common to the field of language description and developed by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The scholars will also become familiar with language elicitation tools and contemporary formalisms. The end result will be a searchable diachronic Kukatja corpus and a chapter co-authored by all scholars on the complementation system of Kukatja.

Suitable for:

This project is open to applications from students with a background in Linguistics and an interest in Australian languages and linguistic theory. Indigenous applicants are particularly encouraged to apply.
Previous coursework required:  Morphology (LING2040)

Number of participants required: 

3

Primary Supervisor: 

Dr Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia

Further info: 

Please contact Dr Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia via email