School of Languages and Cultures

Summer Research Program - 2021 Projects

AVAILABLE PROJECTS

  1. Developing and validating written and oral proficiency tests for second language Japanese
  2. Pragmatic understanding of the interaction between person reference and sentence endings in Korean
  3. Making First Nations eDictionaries
  4. Australian and Japanese Fantastic Arts
  1. Investigation into potential impact of communication style in the speakers’ first language on their second language communication
  2. From handwritten fieldnotes to the evolution of language: The verbs of Occitan (French)
  3. Translation project: Familiar postmemory in grandchildren’s letters to victims of the 1973-1990 civic-military dictatorship in Chile

3. Making First Nations eDictionaries

Project duration:

8 weeks 29 November - 24 December 2021; 3 - 28 January 2022

Description:

This project will involve further developing the Ngarinyman and Waanyi dictionaries and converting the Gurindji, Bilinarra, Mudburra and Ngarinyman paper dictionaries into mobile apps with images and a click and hear function which will be hosted online.

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

Summer Research scholars will gain hands on experience in using dictionary-making software common to field linguistics. They will also become familiar with linguistic annotation tools and elicitation methodologies. The end result will be five searchable, talking dictionary apps.

Suitable for: 

This project is open to applications from advanced students with a background in Linguistics and IT, and First Nations languages. Indigenous applicants are particularly encouraged to apply.

Number of participants required: 3

Further information: 

Please contact Professor Felicity Meakins via email