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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carmel O'Shannessy is an Australian linguistics professor at the Australian National University. She is particularly known for her work on language contact in Australia, having described and documented what is now known as Light Warlpiri. Her research combines her expertise in linguistics with a teaching background. She worked as a teacher in Indigenous schools in Australia's Northern Territory in the 1990s. Since 2017, she has been Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University.
Carmel O'Shannessy's Published Works
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- Light Warlpiri: A New Language (2005) (142)
- Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages (2010) (70)
- The role of multiple sources in the formation of an innovative auxiliary category in Light Warlpiri, a new Australian mixed language (2013) (63)
- The role of codeswitched input to children in the origin of a new mixed language (2012) (50)
- Language contact and children's bilingual acquisition: learning a mixed language and Warlpiri in northern Australia (2006) (33)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages: Language contact and change in endangered languages (2011) (29)
- Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation (2016) (26)
- Competition between word order and case-marking in interpreting grammatical relations: a case study in multilingual acquisition* (2010) (26)
- Multilingual children increase language differentiation by indexing communities of practice (2015) (21)
- Typological constraints on verb integration in two Australian mixed languages 1, 2 (2012) (17)
- 18. Language variation and change in a North Australian indigenous community (2009) (17)
- Language use is connected to indicators of wellbeing: Evidence from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey 2014/15 (2020) (16)
- Possessing variation: age and inalienability related variables in the possessive constructions of two Australian mixed languages (2005) (15)
- Young children's social meaning making in a new mixed language (2011) (14)
- Distributions of case allomorphy by multilingual children: Speaking Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri (2016) (12)
- How ordinary child language acquisition processes can lead to the unusual outcome of a mixed language (2020) (11)
- Comprehension of competing argument marking systems in two Australian mixed languages* (2011) (10)
- National Indigenous Languages Report (2020) (6)
- Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective (2016) (5)
- Voice onset time and constriction duration in Warlpiri stops (Australia) (2021) (5)
- Typological and social factors influencing a new mixed language, Light Warlpiri (2015) (3)
- 7. Entrenchment of Light Warlpiri morphology (2016) (2)
- When more is more: The mixed language Light Warlpiri amalgamates source language phonologies to form a near-maximal inventory (2021) (2)
- Census data on Australian Languages (2018) (2)
- (Re)turning research into pedagogical practice: A case study of translational language research in Warlpiri (2019) (2)
- Reflexive and Reciprocal Encoding in the Australian Mixed Language, Light Warlpiri (2021) (2)
- A HAPPY MARRIAGE: THE STOP AND AFFRICATE INVENTORY OF THE MIXED LANGUAGE LIGHT WARLPIRI (AUSTRALIA) (2019) (2)
- Talking together: how language documentation and teaching practice support oral language development in bilingual education programs (2020) (2)
- What younger speakers have to teach us: a case study of Light Warlpiri speakers (2013) (1)
- Insights from the perspective of language ecologies and new contact languages in Australia (2023) (1)
- Gamilaraay Voices : Stories from Gamilaraay Country (2020) (1)
- Language Contact in Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri (2020) (1)
- Why do children lead contact-induced language change in some contexts but not others? (2019) (1)
- Using Kriol to teach English - help or hindrance? (1997) (0)
- Bilingualism (2004) (0)
- Code-switching helps to maintain traditional language use (2017) (0)
- VOICE ONSET TIME AND CONSTRICTION DURATION IN WARLPIRI (2019) (0)
- Can the roles of different age groups in rapid and dramatic change in contact language situations teach us something about language change in other situations (2018) (0)
- Transitivity Marking in Light Warlpiri, an Australian Mixed Language (2022) (0)
- Conventionalized creativity in the emergence of a mixed language – A case study of Light Warlpiri (2021) (0)
- Well-being and Indigenous Language Ecologies (WILE): a strengths-based approach: Literature review, National Indigenous Languages Report, Pillar 2 (2019) (0)
- Mixed Languages (2020) (0)
- Informed pedagogy in light of Fishman's five questions (2015) (0)
- What children do and don't do in contact-induced language change (2016) (0)
- Speaking Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri (2016) (0)
- Language Contact and Change through Child First Language Acquisition (2020) (0)
- How different are young children's language processing mechanisms in contact-induced language change? (2018) (0)
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