Go to the Little Kids’ Word List!
What is the project about?
This project is about the kinds of words, sounds and grammatical patterns children in Arrernte and Warlpiri families in Mparntwe/Alice Springs learn.
We asked families which words they use with their children. We recorded families talking about picture books and playing with toys. We made a word-list-you-can-hear, the Little Kids’ Word List, so that families can show the words their children know at different ages.
We asked families to play some games about sounds, to show the sound patterns their children are learning.
The project is an ARC Future Fellowship project ‘Tracking language development of Indigenous children in Central Australia’. It aims to identify the language development paths of Indigenous children in Central Australia by examining the spoken language, sign and gesture of children’s early interactions.
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which we meet and which our team members belong to: Arrernte, Warlpiri, Pitjantjatjara, Luritja and Ngunnawal peoples.
Ethics approval has been gained from the Central Australian Human Research Ethics Committee (#CA-20-3633) and the ANU Human Research Ethics Committee (#2019-183).
Who is in the project?
First Peoples researchers at
The Tangentyere Research Hub (Vanessa Davis and Denise Foster)
Red Dust Role Models (Jessie Bartlett and Alice Nelson)
And
Research team leader Assoc. Prof. Carmel O’Shannessy
Collaborators:
Summer Scholars at the Australian National University: Bronwyn Wood, Nic Mezrani, Emily Gilchrist, Larissa Shihoff, Natalie Parker
Interested stakeholders
Central Australia Aboriginal Congress
Batchelor Institute Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics
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