Mary Laughren
Biographic Data
| ID | 93470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Laughren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Laughren |
| SIGNATURE | LAUGHREN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ear and belly in Warlpiri descriptions of cognitive and emotional experience
Like most other Australian languages, Warlpiri – a Pama-Nyungan language of the Ngumpin-Yapa group – is rich in figurative expressions that include a body-part noun. In this article we examine the collocations involving two body parts: langa ‘ear’, which mostly relates to cognition; and miyalu ‘belly’, which mostly relates to emotion. Drawing on an extensive Warlpiri database, we analyse the semantic, figurative and syntactic dimensions of these …
Jurntu Purlapa—Warlpiri songline for the Jurntu Fire Dreaming site (Australia)
The Jurntu Purlapa songline was dreamt in the 1960's by Janjiya Liddy Nakamarra Herbert who, after her sacred boards yukurrukurru 2 were mysteriously burnt, was delirious for a month until she saw three Jampijinpa 3 rainmakers painted with Fire and Python designs connected with the Jurntu sacred site in the Tanami desert. The spirits came out of a hollow log in Lajamanu where she
Central Australian Aboriginal Songs and Biocultural Knowledge: Evidence from Women's Ceremonies Relating to Edible Seeds
Songs encode rich knowledge of the social and ecological worlds of Aboriginal people living in the arid interior of the Australian continent, a desert with one of the most variable rainfalls in the world. People have shaped the ecology of this region in continuous feedback loops over many generations such that there is nowadays a complex system of interdependence between cultural practices and the local ecosystems. Singing traditions are an integ…
From Linguistic Research Findings to Useful Products for Australian Aboriginal Communities
As a linguist investigating the Warlpiri language of central Australia since 1975 and the Waanyi language of the Gulf of Carpentaria region since 2000, my research has always had dual goals. One is to gain a better understanding of the nature of human language generally through detailed documentation and deep analysis of particular human languages, such as Warlpiri and Waanyi, and comparison with other languages; the other goal has been to produc…
Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)
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 c…
Edge Effects in Warlpiri Yawulyu Songs: Resyllabification, Epenthesis, Final Vowel Modification
Song genres vary as to which aspects of language and music are matched to create a well-formed song. For example, English folk songs match stressed syllables to strong musical beats. Some song styles have no requirements on how language and music should align. This article analyses how text and music align in Warlpiri women's songs from central Australia and finds there are ‘text-setting’ rules for setting text to musical rhythm. We first identif…
Sustaining Women's Yawulyu/Awelye: Some Practitioners' and Learners' Perspectives
In 2010 the authors visited various Central Australian communities, including Willowra, Tennant Creek, Alekarenge, Barrow Creek and Ti Tree, to interview some of our research collaborators past and present about how they saw the present and future of their yawulyu/awelye traditions. Yawulyu (in Warlpiri and Warumungu) and Awelye (in Kaytetye and other Arandic languages) are cognate names for women's country-based rituals, including songs, dancing…
The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup
Forty Years on: Ken Hale and Australian Languages
Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia
This work presents a sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a study of Nhanda sound patterns
Current Issues in Comparative Grammar
Palyku is a Ngayarta language
In this paper we present evidence in favour of the O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966:84) and O'Grady (1966) classification of Palyku, a language identified by von Brandenstein (1967) also by the term Njijapali (our Nyiyaparli), as a Ngayarta language and against its inclusion in the Wati subgroup as proposed by Dench (1995a). Because Palyku/Nyiyaparli is the only recorded Ngayarta language with three sets of bound pronominals marking person, n…
Lexical & Conceptual Semantics
Parts and boundaries, Ray Jackendoff the syntax of event structure, James Pustejovsky learning to express motion events in English and Korean - the influence of language-specific lexicanization patterns, Soonja Choi and Melissa Bowerman wiping the slate clean - a lexical semantic exploration, Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Horav affectedness and direct objects - the role of lexical semantics in the acquisition of Vero argument structure, Jean Gro…
Tone in Zulu Nouns
Warlpiri Baby talk
Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia
This work presents a sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a study of Nhanda sound patterns
Sustaining Women's Yawulyu/Awelye: Some Practitioners' and Learners' Perspectives
In 2010 the authors visited various Central Australian communities, including Willowra, Tennant Creek, Alekarenge, Barrow Creek and Ti Tree, to interview some of our research collaborators past and present about how they saw the present and future of their yawulyu/awelye traditions. Yawulyu (in Warlpiri and Warumungu) and Awelye (in Kaytetye and other Arandic languages) are cognate names for women's country-based rituals, including songs, dancing…
Edge Effects in Warlpiri Yawulyu Songs: Resyllabification, Epenthesis, Final Vowel Modification
Song genres vary as to which aspects of language and music are matched to create a well-formed song. For example, English folk songs match stressed syllables to strong musical beats. Some song styles have no requirements on how language and music should align. This article analyses how text and music align in Warlpiri women's songs from central Australia and finds there are ‘text-setting’ rules for setting text to musical rhythm. We first identif…
Warlpiri Baby talk
Palyku is a Ngayarta language
In this paper we present evidence in favour of the O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966:84) and O'Grady (1966) classification of Palyku, a language identified by von Brandenstein (1967) also by the term Njijapali (our Nyiyaparli), as a Ngayarta language and against its inclusion in the Wati subgroup as proposed by Dench (1995a). Because Palyku/Nyiyaparli is the only recorded Ngayarta language with three sets of bound pronominals marking person, n…
Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)
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 c…
Tone in Zulu Nouns
Warlpiri Baby talk
Lexical & Conceptual Semantics
Parts and boundaries, Ray Jackendoff the syntax of event structure, James Pustejovsky learning to express motion events in English and Korean - the influence of language-specific lexicanization patterns, Soonja Choi and Melissa Bowerman wiping the slate clean - a lexical semantic exploration, Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Horav affectedness and direct objects - the role of lexical semantics in the acquisition of Vero argument structure, Jean Gro…
Palyku is a Ngayarta language
In this paper we present evidence in favour of the O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966:84) and O'Grady (1966) classification of Palyku, a language identified by von Brandenstein (1967) also by the term Njijapali (our Nyiyaparli), as a Ngayarta language and against its inclusion in the Wati subgroup as proposed by Dench (1995a). Because Palyku/Nyiyaparli is the only recorded Ngayarta language with three sets of bound pronominals marking person, n…
Current Issues in Comparative Grammar
Forty Years on: Ken Hale and Australian Languages
Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia
This work presents a sketch grammar of Nhanda, a Pama-Nyungan language of the central coast of Western Australia presently on the verge of extinction. The grammar presents the general features of the language within the Australian context, followed by a study of Nhanda sound patterns
The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup
Edge Effects in Warlpiri Yawulyu Songs: Resyllabification, Epenthesis, Final Vowel Modification
Song genres vary as to which aspects of language and music are matched to create a well-formed song. For example, English folk songs match stressed syllables to strong musical beats. Some song styles have no requirements on how language and music should align. This article analyses how text and music align in Warlpiri women's songs from central Australia and finds there are ‘text-setting’ rules for setting text to musical rhythm. We first identif…
Sustaining Women's Yawulyu/Awelye: Some Practitioners' and Learners' Perspectives
In 2010 the authors visited various Central Australian communities, including Willowra, Tennant Creek, Alekarenge, Barrow Creek and Ti Tree, to interview some of our research collaborators past and present about how they saw the present and future of their yawulyu/awelye traditions. Yawulyu (in Warlpiri and Warumungu) and Awelye (in Kaytetye and other Arandic languages) are cognate names for women's country-based rituals, including songs, dancing…
Australia Loves Language Puzzles: The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO)
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 c…
From Linguistic Research Findings to Useful Products for Australian Aboriginal Communities
As a linguist investigating the Warlpiri language of central Australia since 1975 and the Waanyi language of the Gulf of Carpentaria region since 2000, my research has always had dual goals. One is to gain a better understanding of the nature of human language generally through detailed documentation and deep analysis of particular human languages, such as Warlpiri and Waanyi, and comparison with other languages; the other goal has been to produc…
Central Australian Aboriginal Songs and Biocultural Knowledge: Evidence from Women's Ceremonies Relating to Edible Seeds
Songs encode rich knowledge of the social and ecological worlds of Aboriginal people living in the arid interior of the Australian continent, a desert with one of the most variable rainfalls in the world. People have shaped the ecology of this region in continuous feedback loops over many generations such that there is nowadays a complex system of interdependence between cultural practices and the local ecosystems. Singing traditions are an integ…
Ear and belly in Warlpiri descriptions of cognitive and emotional experience
Like most other Australian languages, Warlpiri – a Pama-Nyungan language of the Ngumpin-Yapa group – is rich in figurative expressions that include a body-part noun. In this article we examine the collocations involving two body parts: langa ‘ear’, which mostly relates to cognition; and miyalu ‘belly’, which mostly relates to emotion. Drawing on an extensive Warlpiri database, we analyse the semantic, figurative and syntactic dimensions of these …
Jurntu Purlapa—Warlpiri songline for the Jurntu Fire Dreaming site (Australia)
The Jurntu Purlapa songline was dreamt in the 1960's by Janjiya Liddy Nakamarra Herbert who, after her sacred boards yukurrukurru 2 were mysteriously burnt, was delirious for a month until she saw three Jampijinpa 3 rainmakers painted with Fire and Python designs connected with the Jurntu sacred site in the Tanami desert. The spirits came out of a hollow log in Lajamanu where she
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