Thanks to everyone who joined us at ANU in Canberra for #ALS2024! We look forward to seeing you at the Griffith University Gold Coast campus for #ALS2025 🌞

ANU Press New Release Cover image of 'A Grammar of Warlmanpa'

Our newest title is a grammatical description of the Warlmanpa language, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia presently spoken in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory and surrounding country

Purchase a copy or download for free doi.org/10.22459/GW.2024

#morphology

ALTA 2024 The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA2024) Canberra 2 - 4 December, 2024

SELLING FAST: Registrations are selling fast for the #ALTA2024 conference affiliated with the @aclmeeting.bsky.social 🎉

📆 Monday 2nd Dec - Wed 4th Dec 2024
📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU

#Online and in-person options available.

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Unparliamentary language: Australian edition Legislators in governments based on the Westminster system enjoy parliamentary privilege, which means that, while in the House, they can speak their minds without the fear of being sued for slander…

FTA: @ivacheung.com's series on unparliamentary language. First up: Australia, of course! stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/u...

The ALS 2024 Conference is happening next week (26-29 November) at ANU, Canberra!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Details and programme: als.asn.au/Conference/2...
#ALS2024

Our Word of the Year for 2024 is 'Colesworth': used in reference to the perceived duopoly of Australia's largest supermarket retailers, Coles and Woolworths. For more about our choice, and shortlist: tinyurl.com/yeyn5tkp

Next week – Voices of Regional Australia Seminar Series (mornings of Nov 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd). Seminars are in-person apart from Tues 19th (hybrid). Details and registration:

Registration ALS 2024 Registration

Missed early-bird registration for #ALS2024? You can still register for the conference - tomorrow is the last day!

COOL 13 13ème Colloque de Linguistique Océanienne 13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics

📢 Reminder – abstract submission for the 13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics closes Oct 30! #COOL13 will be June 23-27 2025, at ANU in Canberra

ALS Program Download

Check out the full program for #ALS2024 here: https://als.asn.au/Conference/2024/Program2024 (Canberra, Nov 26th to 29th) Remember to register by October 31st!

A thread on Australian languages from the Society for the Neurology of Language 2024 conference in Brisbane.

Postgraduate Study Options: General and Applied Linguistics Webinar | ANU College of ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES The field of linguistics encompasses the nature of different languages and the nature of language as a cognitive and social phenomenon.In the Master of General and Applied Linguistics, you will…

Considering a Master of General and Applied Linguistics at ANU? Drop by the online info session on Nov 6th, 4pm AEDT. Register here: cass.anu.edu.au/events/postgraduate-stud... #linguistics

Sir Roland Wilson Building · 120 McCoy Cct, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia ★★★★★ · University

The Australian Linguistic Society annual conference will be held in the Sir Roland Wilson building, at the south end of the ANU campus https://maps.app.goo.gl/3eDmJPgNJgR3n6Pz9 See here for some accommodation suggestions: https://als.asn.au/Conference/2024/Accommodation #ALS2024

COOL 13 13ème Colloque de Linguistique Océanienne 13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics

📢 Reminder – abstract submission for the 13th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics closes Oct 30! #COOL13 will be June 23-27 2025, at ANU in Canberra

ALS Program Download

Check out the full program for #ALS2024 here: https://als.asn.au/Conference/2024/Program2024 (Canberra, Nov 26th to 29th) Remember to register by October 31st!

Digital Preservation Awards 2024 - Interview with the Research & Innovation Award winner

Julia Miller (@spectregraph.bsky.social) accepted the award on behalf of PARADISEC – see her post-award interview and reflections on the past and future work of PARADISEC here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX57Zz2xty0

Image shows the Digital Preservation Coalition's awards 2024 seal, with the following text: Winner of the DRI award for research and innovation, congratulations to PARADISEC. Digital Repository of Ireland. Taisclann Dhigiteach na hÉireann

Still buzzing with excitement for PARADISEC who won the highly competitive award for research and innovation, presented in Ghent, Brussels, 16 September 2024. Thank you Digital Repository of Ireland! Read about PARADISEC's submission for this award: https://t.co/QUXvpYdxnU

Tall poppies will continue to grow: scientific achievers recognised | ANU College of ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES Early-career researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have been acknowledged with ACT Young Tall Poppy Science Awards for research ranging from the exploration of more sustainable…

Congratulations to @drmarydahm.bsky.social, one of four recipients of the 2024 ACT Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, recognising significant contributions to science and community engagement and outreach 🎉

Conference site splash page: Language Documentation and Archiving during the Decade of Indigenous Languages. Conference and training sessions. Organised jointly by ELAR and PARADISEC

Videos from the ELAR/PARADISEC Conference on Language Documentation & Archiving (4-6 September 2024 in Berlin and online) can be viewed via the LD&A YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@langdoc/playlists Videos include in-person and online talks as well as online poster sessions. Enjoy!

The Australian Linguistic Society is calling for applications from any member of the Society for a grant of up to $2,500 to support publication costs (e.g. open access fees and other publishing costs).

Apply online before 30 October 2024.

Details: als.asn.au/alsgrant/det...

📢 Reminder – closing today! #ALS2024

And applications for the Indigenous Conference Attendance Support Grant and the Student Conference Attendance Support Grant close by Oct 18th!
@auslingsoc.bsky.social offers one of each (up to $800) https://als.asn.au/Pages/ALS/Grants/GrantList.aspx #ALS2024

Registration ALS 2024 Registration

Registration is now open for the Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, Nov 26-29 at ANU in Canberra. Early-bird rego closes Oct 31st! (5pm AEDT) https://als.asn.au/Conference/2024/Registration2024 #ALS2024

First Nations language professionals from across Australia visited ANU last week to work on an ARC project about language ecologies. Policy attending to which languages are spoken and how in specific places can transform lives. The team gave the Paul Bourke Award public lecture, led by Denise Angelo

Coats (2024) ‘Building a searchable online corpus of Australian and New Zealand aligned speech’ https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2368780

Takahashi & Bettinson (2024) ‘Analyzing online public discourse in Australia: Australian Twittersphere and NewsTalk corpora’ https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2380690

Willoughby et al. (2024) ‘The GeSCA repository: Gesture and Sign Corpus of Australia’ https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2380672

Cox & Penney (2024) ‘Multicultural Australian English – The New Voice of Sydney’ https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2380680

Sheard (2024) ‘The Sydney Speaks Lifespan Corpus’ https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2386392