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Volume 46, Issue 1 of Australian Journal of Linguistics

Dan Fox on learning his family’s many-layered language and picking up a portable inheritance.

<p>This volume provides cutting-edge research on a wide range of questions in linguistics research, mostly centred on Australian Indigenous languages. Written by world-leading experts, the chapters ta...

Te Reo is the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand (ISSN 2703-4135). The words Te Reo are the Māori term for ‘the language’ or ‘language’. The Journal is published annually and has been ru...

Languages differ in how core argument roles are marked and in the cues guiding their real-time comprehension. This study investigated thematic role assignment in Pitjantjatjara – an Australian Pama...

Jaz Fusi has been passionate about learning Paakantyi language for most of her life. Now, she teaches it to her local school's teachers and is eager to see other kids do the same.

At 178 hours and 853,348 words, the Gurindji Kriol corpus (Meakins & Algy 2004) is currently the largest annotated corpus of an Australian Indigenous language, and is a significant record of the commu...

The world’s languages are in crisis: intergenerational transmission of around half the world’s languages is collapsing. I argue that to understand and intervene in this situation, we need to radically...

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

Position Statement on Generative AI in teaching and research   The Linguistics Discipline in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific posi...

We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025…