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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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    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.