Carmel O'Shannessy

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Carmel O'Shannessy

A new study of Warlpiri language shows how ‘baby talk’ helps little kids learn to speak

Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen, The University of Melbourne; Alice Nelson, Indigenous Knowledge; Carmel O'Shannessy, Australian National University; Jessie Bartlett, Indigenous Knowledge, and Vanessa Napaltjari Davis, Australian National University

Previous studies of baby talk have focussed on European languages, Mandarin and Japanese. For the first time, research looks at an Australian Indigenous language.
Warlpiri Dictionary contributors. Photo: Jeff Bruer, PAW Media, for Aboriginal Studies Press/AIATSIS

Six decades, 210 Warlpiri speakers and 11,000 words: how a groundbreaking First Nations dictionary was made

Carmel O'Shannessy, Australian National University; Jane Helen Simpson, Australian National University, and Otto Sims Jungarrayi, Indigenous Knowledge

The Warlpiri Dictionary has been 60 years in the making – and it’s shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards, a rarity for a dictionary.

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