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    Two decades of sign language and gesture research in Australia: 2000-2020
    Green, J ; Hodge, G ; Kelly, BE (UNIV HAWAII PRESS, 2022)
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    A usability framework for speech recognition technologies in clinical handover: A pre-implementation study
    Dawson, L ; Johnson, M ; Suominen, H ; Basilakis, J ; Sanchez, P ; Estival, D ; Kelly, B ; Hanlen, L (SPRINGER, 2014-06)
    A multi-disciplinary research team is undertaking a trial of speech-to-text (STT) technology for clinical handover management. Speech-to-text technologies allow for the capture of handover data from voice recordings using speech recognition software and systems. The text documents created from this system can be used together with traditional handover notes and checklists to enhance the depth and breadth of data available for clinical decision-making at the point of care and so improve patient care and reduce medical errors. This paper reports on a preliminary study of perceived usability by nurses of speech-to-text technology based on interviews at a "test day" and using a user-task-technology usability framework to explore expectations of nurses of the use of speech-to-text (STT) technology for clinical handover. The results of this study will be used to design field studies to test the use of speech-to-text (STT) technologies at the point of care in several hospital settings.
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    AusKidTalk: An Auditory-Visual Corpus of 3- to 12-Year-Old Australian Children's Speech
    Ahmed, B ; Ballard, KJ ; Burnham, D ; Sirojan, T ; Mehmood, H ; Estival, D ; Baker, E ; Cox, F ; Arciuli, J ; Benders, T ; Demuth, K ; Kelly, B ; Diskin-Holdaway, C ; Shahin, M ; Sethu, V ; Epps, J ; Lee, CB ; Ambikairajah, E (ISCA, 2021)
    Here we present AusKidTalk [1], an audio-visual (AV) corpus of Australian children’s speech collected to facilitate the development of speech based technological solutions for children. It builds upon the technology and expertise developed through the collection of an earlier corpus of Australian adult speech, AusTalk [2,3]. This multi-site initiative was established to remedy the dire shortage of children’s speech corpora in Australia and around the world that are sufficiently sized to train accurate automated speech processing tools for children. We are collecting ~600 hours of speech from children aged 3–12 years that includes single word and sentence productions as well as narrative and emotional speech. In this paper, we discuss the key requirements for AusKidTalk and how we designed the recording setup and protocol to meet them. We also discuss key findings from our feasibility study of the recording protocol, recording tools, and user interface.
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    Claire Kramsch: Language as Symbolic Power
    Davidson, L ; Elder, C ; Fan, J ; Frost, K ; Kelly, B ; McNamara, T ; Morton, J ; Price, S ; Storch, N ; Thompson, C ; Yao, X ; Diskin-Holdaway, C (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2022-06)
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    Chains of influence in Himalayan grammars: Models and interrelations shaping descriptions of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal
    Kelly, B ; Lahaussois, A (De Gruyter, 2021-01-01)
    This paper examines comparability of descriptive grammars across typologically different languages. Focusing on the Nepal Himalayas, which has high language diversity that extends beyond areal, genetic, and historical categorization, the paper examines similarities across grammars and the influences motivating these. It reports on the construction and use of a database comprising materials from 18 descriptive grammars of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal written over a 30-year period. This includes a small sub-database of metadata noting grammarian linguistic training, career affiliations, and dissertation supervisors and a larger sub-database of fully tagged tables of contents for each of the grammars. The overarching relational database links sections containing similar content, enabling search functions to explore the locations of similar information and feature labels across grammars in the database. While some grammar-features in the corpus reflect broader structural properties across grammars, findings indicate strong local influences. We find evidence of three foundational linguistic “schools” connecting the structural organization of the grammars across multiple generations of linguists, correspondences across chapter titles, sections, as well as school-influenced organization of verbal paradigms, treatment of marginal topics, and terminological choices.
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    Fieldwork and first language acquisition
    Kelly, B ; Nordlinger, R (University of Melbourne, 2014)
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    Linguistic diversity in first language acquisition research: moving beyond the challenges
    NORDLINGER, R ; Kelly, B ; Forshaw, W ; Wigglesworth, G (SAGE Publications (UK and US), 2015)
    The field of first language acquisition (FLA) needs to take into account data from the broadest typological array of languages and language-learning environments if it is to identify potential universals in child language development, and how these interact with socio-cultural mechanisms of acquisition. Yet undertaking FLA research in remote field-based situations, where the majority of the world’s languages are spoken and acquired, poses challenges for best-practice methodologies assumed in lab-based FLA research. This article discusses the challenges of child language acquisition research in fieldwork contexts with lesser-known, under-described languages with small communities of speakers. The authors suggest some modified approaches to methodology for child language research appropriate to challenging fieldwork situations, in the hope of encouraging more cross-linguistic acquisition research.
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    The acquisition of Murrinhpatha (Northern Australia)
    Forshaw, W ; Davidson, L ; Kelly, B ; Nordlinger, R ; Wigglesworth, G ; Blythe, J ; Fortescue, M ; Mithun, M ; Evans, N (Oxford University Press, 2017)
    This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English.
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    Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)
    Estival, D ; Bow, C ; Henderson, J ; Kelly, B ; Laughren, M ; Mayer, E ; Mollá, D ; Mrowa-Hopkins, C ; Nordlinger, R ; Rieschild, V ; Schalley, AC ; Stanley, AW ; Vaughan, J (Wiley, 2014-12-01)
    The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO) started in 2008 in only two locations and has since grown to a nationwide competition with almost 1500 high school students participating in 2013. An Australian team has participated in the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) every year since 2009. This paper describes how the competition is run (with a regional first round and a final national round) and the organisation of the competition (a National Steering Committee and Local Organising Committees for each region) and discusses the particular challenges faced by Australia (timing of the competition and distance between the major population centres). One major factor in the growth and success of OzCLO has been the introduction of the online competition, allowing participation of students from rural and remote country areas. The organisation relies on the goodwill and volunteer work of university and school staff but the strong interest amongst students and teachers shows that OzCLO is responding to a demand for linguistic challenges.
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