Welcome to a new season of Field Notes! This month, Claire Bowern is on the pod for Season Four's inaugural episode. Claire Bowern is a historical linguist whose research is centered around language change and language documentation in Indigenous Australia. She received her BA in LInguistics and Classics from the Australian National University, and her PhD in linguistics from Harvard University. She works with speakers of endangered languages, with archival sound and print materials, and uses computational and phylogenetic methods. She is currently the editor of the journal Diachronica. She is a professor in Linguistics at Yale University, and is also the author of Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide (2008). 
Things mentioned in this episode: 
Bardi language
Pama–Nyungan language
Ngalia language 
Australian Aboriginal English
Australian Kriol
River in Kullilli (with Toby Adams) 
Kullilli Ngulkana
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MalakMalak language

Cherokee language 


CHIRILA


Claire on Twitter: @anggarrgoon
 

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