Clair Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clair Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clair |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3937-0813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medial consonant lengthening in Eastern Middle Paman
sponsorship: JCV's work was supported by grant C14/24/046, granted by the University of Leuven's research council. BB and RBN's work was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project [grant number DP190100646] "1 potato, 2 wotatoes, 3 otatoes: Lexical access in Australian languages" (CIs Mark Harvey, Robert Mailhammer, Brett Baker, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen). CH acknowledges the support of Lockhart River Council. (University of Leu…
Linguistic descriptions and cultural models of olfaction in Umpila and English
The irrelevance of scale and fixedness in landscape terms in two Australian languages
This article examines how the speakers of Manyjilyjarra (Great Sandy Desert) and Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u (Cape York Peninsula) linguistically categorize the landscape in which they live. Located on opposite sides of Australia, in highly contrasting arid inland and tropical coastal environments, the semantics of the landscape feature terminology in these two Australian languages have key similarities. Both lexical sets overwhelmingly classify the landsc…
Multiparty storytelling in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u
This paper analyzes the functions of interactional devices used by co-tellers in multiparty stories in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u, two closely related dialects of a Paman language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Within the Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u speech community there is a strong cultural preference for multiparty storytelling – a preference which has been noted in a number of Aboriginal Australian contexts. This paper seeks to understand the mechan…
Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (e.g., smell)? The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been that vision and audition are more objective than the other senses, serving as the basis of knowledge and understanding, whereas touch, taste, and smell are crude and of little value. This predicts that humans ought to …
Forests
Do all humans perceive, think, and talk about tree cover (forests) in more or less the same way? International forestry programs frequently seem to operate on the assumption that they do. However, recent advances in the language sciences show that languages vary greatly as to how the landscape domain is lexicalized and grammaticalized. Different languages segment and label the large-scale environment and its features according to astonishingly di…
Expression of the interpersonal connection between narrators and characters in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u storytelling
This article analyses the selection of person reference expressions in narratives in Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The analysis takes the principle of topic-fittedness, one of a set of design principles proposed to account for the interactional conditioning of person reference formulation, and applies it to Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u narration. The ensuing anlaysis demonstrates that referring practices are …
Named and Unnamed Spaces
Imagine describing the particular characteristics of the hue of a flower, or the quality of its scent, or the texture of its petal. Introspection suggests the expression of such sensory experiences in words is something quite different than the task of naming artifacts. The particular challenges in the linguistic encoding of sensorial experiences pose questions regarding how languages manage semantic gaps and "ineffability." That is, what strateg…
Named and Unnamed Spaces
Imagine describing the particular characteristics of the hue of a flower, or the quality of its scent, or the texture of its petal. Introspection suggests the expression of such sensory experiences in words is something quite different than the task of naming artifacts. The particular challenges in the linguistic encoding of sensorial experiences pose questions regarding how languages manage semantic gaps and "ineffability." That is, what strateg…
Multiparty storytelling in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u
This paper analyzes the functions of interactional devices used by co-tellers in multiparty stories in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u, two closely related dialects of a Paman language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Within the Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u speech community there is a strong cultural preference for multiparty storytelling – a preference which has been noted in a number of Aboriginal Australian contexts. This paper seeks to understand the mechan…
Expression of the interpersonal connection between narrators and characters in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u storytelling
This article analyses the selection of person reference expressions in narratives in Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The analysis takes the principle of topic-fittedness, one of a set of design principles proposed to account for the interactional conditioning of person reference formulation, and applies it to Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u narration. The ensuing anlaysis demonstrates that referring practices are …
Named and Unnamed Spaces
Imagine describing the particular characteristics of the hue of a flower, or the quality of its scent, or the texture of its petal. Introspection suggests the expression of such sensory experiences in words is something quite different than the task of naming artifacts. The particular challenges in the linguistic encoding of sensorial experiences pose questions regarding how languages manage semantic gaps and "ineffability." That is, what strateg…
Expression of the interpersonal connection between narrators and characters in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u storytelling
This article analyses the selection of person reference expressions in narratives in Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula (Australia). The analysis takes the principle of topic-fittedness, one of a set of design principles proposed to account for the interactional conditioning of person reference formulation, and applies it to Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u narration. The ensuing anlaysis demonstrates that referring practices are …
Forests
Do all humans perceive, think, and talk about tree cover (forests) in more or less the same way? International forestry programs frequently seem to operate on the assumption that they do. However, recent advances in the language sciences show that languages vary greatly as to how the landscape domain is lexicalized and grammaticalized. Different languages segment and label the large-scale environment and its features according to astonishingly di…
Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (e.g., smell)? The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been that vision and audition are more objective than the other senses, serving as the basis of knowledge and understanding, whereas touch, taste, and smell are crude and of little value. This predicts that humans ought to …
The irrelevance of scale and fixedness in landscape terms in two Australian languages
This article examines how the speakers of Manyjilyjarra (Great Sandy Desert) and Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u (Cape York Peninsula) linguistically categorize the landscape in which they live. Located on opposite sides of Australia, in highly contrasting arid inland and tropical coastal environments, the semantics of the landscape feature terminology in these two Australian languages have key similarities. Both lexical sets overwhelmingly classify the landsc…
Multiparty storytelling in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u
This paper analyzes the functions of interactional devices used by co-tellers in multiparty stories in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u, two closely related dialects of a Paman language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Within the Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u speech community there is a strong cultural preference for multiparty storytelling – a preference which has been noted in a number of Aboriginal Australian contexts. This paper seeks to understand the mechan…
Linguistic descriptions and cultural models of olfaction in Umpila and English
Medial consonant lengthening in Eastern Middle Paman
sponsorship: JCV's work was supported by grant C14/24/046, granted by the University of Leuven's research council. BB and RBN's work was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project [grant number DP190100646] "1 potato, 2 wotatoes, 3 otatoes: Lexical access in Australian languages" (CIs Mark Harvey, Robert Mailhammer, Brett Baker, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen). CH acknowledges the support of Lockhart River Council. (University of Leu…
Linguistics (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Categorization (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)