Language learning

Learning to Talk, Talking to Learn: Effects of an early childhood language program in remote Northern Territory Indigenous communities

Learning to Talk, Talking to Learn: Effects of an early childhood language program in remote Northern Territory Indigenous communities.

Landscape, language and culture in Indigenous Australia

This project aims to determine how culture and social diversity interact with landscape in representing physical space in the minds and grammars of speakers of Australian Indigenous languages.

How free is free?: word order in Australian Indigenous languages

This project aims to address the fundamental issue of how the grammatical structure of the language we speak shapes the way we plan and interpret sentences.

Noongar kaatdijin bidi: Noongar knowledge networks; or, Why is there no Noongar Wikipedia?

Our main achievement is the Noongarpedia incubator site, currently featuring 680 entries, for a planned Noongar-language version of Wikipedia, with community-developed content and Wikimedia-appropr

Restoring on-Country performance: song, language and south coast landscapes

This project aims to investigate relationships between place, people and endangered performance traditions in the south coast region of Western Australia.

In the Time of Their Lives. Wangka kutjupa-kutjuparringu: How talk has changed in the Western Desert

The Western Desert Verbal Arts Collection is a unique compilation of audio-visual recordings of the oral traditions and endangered speech styles of the Ngaanyatjarra, Ngaatjatjarra and Pitjantjatja

Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages Project

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages project is a digital archive of literature in Australian Indigenous languages from around the Northern Territory.

Natural Language Generation for Aboriginal Languages

Natural Language Generation for Aboriginal Languages.

Binung Ma Na Du: Cultural stories and living histories on Wakka Wakka Country

To effectively teach Wakka Wakka language, schools must have access to high quality local curriculum resources, and these must be made in partnership and under the leadership of traditional owners

Breaking the silence

While some Deaf and Hard of Hearing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders rely on Australian Sign Language (Auslan) to communicate, others use traditional Aboriginal and Kriol (Torres Strait Islan