One of the major challenges in acquiring a language is being able to use morphology as an
adult would, and thus, a considerable amount of acquisition research has focused on …

The field of first language acquisition (FLA) needs to take into account data from the
broadest typological array of languages and language-learning environments if it is to …

This thesis is about the life and language of kardu kigay—young Aboriginal men in the town
of Wadeye, northern Australia. Kigay have attained some notoriety within Australia for their …

There has been substantial research into trends in maintenance and shift of community
languages among Australian migrants; however, similar studies for Indigenous language …

Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the morphological complexity
and diversity of the world's languages. This book examines the acquisition of complex …

Evidence for cross-cultural response biases is now relatively ubiquitous in psychological
research, however the idea that cultural differences might influence neurocognitive …

In this paper I discuss transitivity in Murrinh-Patha, a non-Pama-Nyungan polysynthetic
language from northern Australia. I survey the range of bivalent clauses in Murrinh-Patha …

William Forshaw is currently undertaking his PhD research at the University of Melbourne as
a student of the Research Unit for Indigenous Language. He is also an affiliate of the ARC …

The range of linguistic structures and interactional practices associated with other-initiated
repair (OIR) is surveyed for the Northern Australian language Murrinh-Patha. By drawing on …

Cognitive psychological research provides an evidence-based understanding of human
cognition. For example, it can inform an understanding of how phonological awareness …