Teaching statement
I’ve finally figured out what I want to put in a teaching statement: http://campuspress.yale.edu/clairebowern/teaching/ I am a linguist and I teach about linguistics, particularly language change and...
View ArticleNew bootcamp under way!
The 2017 grammar boot camp starts tomorrow. Three students (with bios below) will be working with me on materials for Noongar. We’re very lucky to be working with Denise Smith-Ali, Noongar linguist,...
View ArticleNew preprint (etc) archive for Australian languages!
I worry about data. It’s my job. I worry about how to analyze it, how to collect it, how to present it, and what happens to it. A particular worry for me at the moment is the very large amount of...
View ArticleColor in Pama-Nyungan: update
Last November, Hannah Haynie and I published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on color term systems in Pama-Nyungan. In it, we used phylogenetic methods to show that color...
View ArticleVideos for Zenodo uploads
I made some videos about how to upload files to the Zenodo repository for Australian languages: is how to sign up for a zenodo account will show you how to upload files to the Australian Languages...
View ArticlePolygons and centroids now on Zenodo
I’ve updated the polygon and centroid files for Australian language locations, and placed them on Zenodo. This means there’s something stable for you to reference if you want to use them and refer to...
View ArticleClass on journal article writing
Last spring, I taught a graduate class on how to submit an article to a journal. Our department, like many, has a qualifying paper requirement, where students write two “publishable” or...
View ArticleRecently Added to Chirila
Wergaia Holmer’s Darumbal list Mathi-Mathia Sidney May papers
View ArticleHTK error list
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bromberg/htk_problems.html used to have a really useful list of common htk errors, what they mean, and how to solve them. It was maintained by then graduate student...
View ArticleStandard Average Australian
My slides for my recent Association for Linguistic Typology Talk on “Standard Average Australian” are now available on Zenodo. The slides are self-explanatory, I think, and the Zenodo page has the long...
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