Australian Aboriginal Studies

Latest issue on songs and song language.

Articles
Musical and linguistic perspectives on Aboriginal song Allan Marett and Linda Barwick	abstract	1
Iwaidja Jurtbirrk songs: Bringing language and music together Linda Barwick, Bruce Birch, Nicholas Evans	abstract	6
Morrdjdjanjno ngan-marnbom story nakka, ‘songs that turn me into a story teller’: The morrdjdjanjno of western Arnhem Land Murray Garde	abstract	35
Sung and spoken: An analysis of two different versions of a Kun-barlang love song Isabel O’Keeffe (nee Bickerdike)	abstract	46
Simplifying musical practice in order to enhance local identity: Rhythmic modes in the Walakandha wangga (Wadeye, Northern Territory) Allan Marett	abstract	63
‘Too long, that wangga’: Analysing wangga texts over time Lysbeth Ford	abstract	76
Flesh with country: Juxtaposition and minimal contrast in the construction and melodic treatment of jadmi song texts Sally Treloyn	abstract	90
The poetics of central Australian Aboriginal song Myfany Turpin	abstract	100
Budutthun ratja wiyinymirri: Formal flexibility in the Yolŋu manikay tradition and the challenge of recording a complete repertoire Aaron Corn with Neparrŋ a Gumbula	abstract	116
Australian Aboriginal song language: So many questions, so little to work with Michael Walsh	abstract	128

Language Contact and Deliberate Change

Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan. Journal of Language Contact 1. Discusses cases where speakers have deliberately engineered correspondences and evaluates the potential harm for reconstruction.

Representation of Third Person

Andrew Nevins. NLLT. Includes data from Australian languages

 Abstract  In modeling the effects of the Person-Case Constraint (PCC), a common claim is that 3rd person “is not a person”. However, while this claim does work in the syntax, it creates problems in the morphology. For example, characterizing the well-known “spurious se effect” in Spanish simply cannot be done without reference to 3rd person. Inspired by alternatives to underspecification that have emerged in phonology (e.g., Calabrese, 1995), a revised featural system is proposed, whereby syntactic agreement may be relativized to certain values of a feature, in particular, the contrastive and marked values. The range of variation in PCC effects is shown to emerge as a consequence of the parametric options allowed on a Probing head, whereas the representation of person remains constant across modules of the grammar and across languages.

Language Planning and Place Names in Australia

Language Planning and Placenaming in Australia
Flavia Hodges
Current Issues in Language Planning 8,3 p383-404

http://www.multilingual-matters.net/cilp/008/cilp0080383.htm

[hat tip: Sally Dixon, Wangka Maya Language Centre]

UQ Working Papers in Linguistics

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ojs/index.php/uqwpl/issue/current

The current issue includes articles on Yukulta and Jingulu

Language Documentation & Conservation

The National Foreign Language Resource Center and the University of Hawai’i Press are pleased to announce that the inaugural issue (Volume 1, Number 1) of Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C) is now available at  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/.

LD&C is a fully refereed, open-access, online journal that is published twice a year, in June and December. Please visit the LD&C webpage and subscribe. It’s free.

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Volume 1, Number 1 (June 2007)
Table of Contents

ARTICLES:

Endangered Sound Patterns: Three Perspectives on Theory and Description
Juliette Blevins

Solar Power for the Digital Fieldworker
Tom Honeyman and Laura C. Robinson

Copyright Essentials for Linguists
Paul Newman

Managing Fieldwork Data with Toolbox and the Natural Language Toolkit
Stuart Robinson, Greg Aumann, and Steven Bird

Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language
Natasha Warner, Quirina Luna, and Lynnika Butler

Writer’s Workshops: A Strategy for Developing Indigenous Writers
Diana Dahlin Weber, Diane Wroge, and Joan Bomberger Yoder

TECHNOLOGY REVIEWS

Review of TshwaneLex Dictionary Compilation Software
Reviewed by: Claire Bowern

Review of Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx)
Reviewed by: Lynnika Butler and Heather van Volkinburg

Review of Computerized Language Analysis (CLAN)
Reviewed by: Felicity Meakins

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu
Robert Early

Review of Kerresel a klechibelau: Tekoi er a Belau me a omesodel:
Palauan language lexicon
Robert E. Gibson

La Trobe Working Papers

La Trobe’s Working Papers in Linguistics series is now online.

List of Working Papers in Linguistics

Compilation of Working Papers in Linguistics.

Language Documentation and Conservation: New Journal

Email from Nick Thieberger:

I am writing to announce a new journal called Language Documentation and Conservation (http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc) from the University of Hawai’i. This is an online peer-reviewed journal and the first issue will appear in mid-2007. You are encouraged to subscribe to the journal (which costs nothing) here: http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/subscribe.html.

I am the technology editor and am hoping you will want to contribute articles on methods for language documentation which may include (but not be limited to) software and hardware tools, techniques and workflows. These articles can be in the form of reviews of particular tools, announcements about new tools or methods for linguistic analysis associated with language documentation. We want to explore the possibilities offered by an online journal, for example in allowing larger datasets to be made available for corroboration of claims made in paper journals.

The deadline for the first issue is late March so please consider submitting that article that has been sitting around waiting for the right forum.

Annie Langlois: Wordplay in Teenage Pitjantjatjara

Australian Journal of Linguistics: 26/2.

Here is the abstract of the paper:

‘Secret languages’ of children and teenagers are found in many cultures and societies. In the Pitjantjatjara community of Areyonga in Central Australia, teenage girls have developed a language that allows them secrecy in their private conversation. They called this ‘special’ language the ‘short-way language’. Though the data is limited,1¹This paper is based on data collected between September 1994 and December 1995. this article provides an initial description of the language. An account of the Areyonga community is also provided to support the description.