Director: Linda Barwick
I have undertaken field research in Central and Northern Australia, Italy and the Philippines. I am a great believer in collaborative research, and enjoy working with communities and linguists to produce well-documented published recordings of sung traditions. On the academic side I am particularly interested in song language, musical analysis and aesthetics of non-Western song traditions, and the implications of emerging digital and networking technologies for establishing community access points to research results.
PUBLICATIONS

Project Manager: Nick Thieberger
I set up the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre in the late 1980s, then worked at AIATSIS on developing the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive. I lived in Vanuatu for three years and wrote a grammatical description of South Efate, one of the indigenous languages of Central Vanuatu. In order to write a grammatical description of the language based on my field recordings I developed a tool (Audiamus) that allowed me to present my PhD thesis together with a DVD of example sentences and texts. I am very interested in using new tools to assist fieldworkers in order to produce data that can be reused in future.

Audio Preservation Officer: Aidan Wilson
I'm a recent Bachelor of Liberal Studies graduate from the University of Sydney. My study of the argument structure of complex predicates in Wagiman, a language from the Katherine region of the Northern Territory, Australia, won me first class honours in linguistics.

Project Coordinator: Tom Honeyman
I'm currently involved in a few projects at PARADISEC. One of these projects is Field Helper, a tool to assist field workers in tagging their files in the field in order to ease the archive ingestion process. I'm also working on documenting the language Fas spoken in the Sandaun province in Papua New Guinea. I'm interested in language documentation and description technology and methodology, and the Bermuda Triangle cornered by syntax, pragmatics and semantics.