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Available student projects
ANU is accepting PhD applications.
I am interested in students looking to do corpus-based documentation or usage-based variation projects of corpus data, particularly for endangered languages, languages of the Pacific and Papua New Guinea, and Oceanic languages.
Contact me & look at:
http://chl.anu.edu.au/study/graduate-research
Research interests
Corpus Linguistics, Typology, Complex Predicates, Oceanic Languages, languages of Papua New Guinea, Cognitive Linguistics, Usage-based Linguistics, Language Variation, Language Contact, Pidgins and Creoles, Grammaticalization, Speech Styles, Statistical Modelling, Language as a Probabilistic System
Current student projects
Chair:
"Building and Analysing Datasets; Speech Recognition for Indonesian Language Classrooms and Resources" - Zara Maxwell-Smith
"Children's acquistion of Wiru (a Trans-New Guinea language)" - Caroline Hendy
"Clause chaining in cross-lingusitic perspective: A case study of Yoidik" - Kira Davey
"Language variation in multilingual-multicultural context: The case of Assamese vowels" - Saurabh Kumar Nath
Associate Supervisor:
"Semantics of landscape terms in Chinese" - Emma Rao
"Social variation in the English of Chinese-Australians" - Qiao Gan
"A Grammar of Kodhi, An Austronesian Language of Sumba Island, eastern Indonesia" - Yustinus Ghanggo Ate
"A grammatical description of the Simeulue language" - Keira Mullan
"Developing and documenting a system for using the Luqa vernacular as its own grammatical metalanguage, and its use by Luqa speakers to study and analyze their own language in the Solomon Islands" - Alpheaus Zobule
Researcher's projects
Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC): scopicproject.wordpress.com
Matukar Panau Documentation: matukar.wordpress.com
Understanding Corpus Linguistics (Textbook now available, co-written with Stefan Schnell)
Barth Lab: barthlab.wordpress.com
Qualifications
Past student projects
Associate Supervisor:
"Computational methods in aid of transcription and linguistics analysis, using the Southern New Guinea language Nen as a case study" - Sahlia Muradoglu
"Variation in Raga - a quantitative and qualitative study of the language of North Pentecost, Vanuatu" - Marie-France Duhamel
https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/205516
"Placing spatial language and cognition in context through an investigate of Bininj Kunwok navigation talk" - Claudia Cialone
https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/164276
Honours:
"Dative Alternation in Tok Pisin - a quantitative corpus study" - Anastasia Likouresis
"Directional Constructions in Matukar Panau - a quantitative corpus study" - Kira Davey
Computer Science Student Research Projects:
"Topic Modelling on Endangered Language" - Bing Bo
co-supervised with Dr Gabriela Ferraro
"Natural Language Processing for Small Languages" - Yufeng Fang
co-supervised with Qiongkai Xu & Dr Gabriela Ferraro
Other work
Media Coverage:
Comments on Language Endagerment & Preservation in the Pacific on ABC Pacific beat in English and ABC Wantok in Tok Pisin
Comments on Enga language lessons on TikTok social media. ABC Pacific Beat radio and ABC news coverage
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme special highlight on Matukar Panau
Keywords
- P Philology. Linguistics
- linguistics
- grammar
- styntax
- morphology
- phonetics
- langauge change
- Papua New Guinea
Expertise Areas
- LINGUISTICS
- Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
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Network (past 5 years)
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Modularised cultural heritage archives future-proofing PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) Ext-led by University of Melbourne
Barth, D., Thieberger, N. A., Bird, S., Evans, N., Harris, A., Morey, S., Palmer, B. & Simpson, J.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian National University (ANU)
1/07/22 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
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Modelling Pacific Creole Languages
Evans, N., Barth, D., Evans, B. & Thieberger, N. A.
Commonwealth Department of Defence, Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)
28/02/22 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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Phonemic Modelling of Tok Pisin Voice
Commonwealth Department of Defence, Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)
1/12/18 → 2/12/22
Project: Research
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Matukar Panau corpus building for the study of language use in context
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP)
1/10/18 → 1/02/23
Project: Research
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Auslan and Matukar Panau: A modality-agnostic look at quotatives
Hodge, G., Barth, D. & Reed, L., 2023, In: Language Documentation & Conservation. 12, n/a, p. 85-125Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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An Interlinearized 'Family Problem' Narrative Text from Matukar Panau
Barth, D., 2022, In: Asian and African Languages and Linguistics. 16, p. 187-208Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Language vs. individuals in cross-linguistic corpus typology
Barth, D., Evans, N., Arka, W., Bergqvist, H., Forker, D., Gipper, S., Hodge, G., Kashima, E., Kasuga, Y., Kawakami, C., Kimoto, Y., Knuchel, D., Kogura, N., Kurabe, K. & Mansfield, J., 2022, In: Language Documentation and Conservation. 25, p. 179-232Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Understanding: Corpus Linguistics
Barth, D. & Schnell, S., 2022, 1st ed. United Kingdom: Routledge. 248 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Clause chaining and the utterance phrase: Syntax-prosody mapping in Matukar Panau
Mansfield, J. & Barth, D., 2021, In: Open Linguistics. 7, 1, p. 423-447Research output: Contribution to journal › Article