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A/PROF LESLEY STIRLING



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/stirling/
Work: 83445192
Fax: 83448990
Room: 529
Level: 05
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Biography

The book in which Lesley's 2002 chapter Stirling & Huddleston ‘Deixis and anaphora’ appeared, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, was awarded the 7th bi-annual Leonard Bloomfield Book Award by the Linguistic Society of America in 2003


Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Kala Lagaw Ya Grammar and discourse Australia
Language and schizophrenia Australia
Perspective and identity in narratives of disease and disability Australia
Dialogue structure and prosody Australia
Autism and narrative Australia
Grammatical description and typology Australia
Reference and discourse structure in Australian languages Australia
Anaphora Major approaches in linguistics & cognitive science Australia, United States of America, United Kingdom

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Yale University Research
United Kingdom Cardiff University Research
United States University of Maryland, College Park Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts The University of Queensland 31-Dec-1981
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Edinburgh 31-Jul-1989

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Australian Academy of the Humanities Australian Academy of the Humanities Crawford Medal -The most prestigious award for early career Humanities Researchers 01-Jan-1996

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Autism and written narrative: discourse analysis and the characterisation of higher level language disorder phenotypes Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
TAMEAL - THE INTERRELATION OF TENSE ASPECT & MODALITY WITH EVIDENTIALITY IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES - NON-LEAD Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY PARIS DIDEROT Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) (EUROPEAN COMMISSION)

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Developmental Profile of Editing and Repair Strategies in Narrative Structure: a Cross-sectional Study of Primary School Children


    Year: 2009
    Event name: Boston University Conference on Language Development
    Conference Publication: Proccedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 504-515
    Publisher: Cascadilla Press(Medford, MA)
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • "Double reference" in Kala Lagaw Ya narratives
    Year: 2008
    Book: Discourse and grammar in Australian languages
    Publisher: Benjamins - John Benjamins Publishing Company(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • "Then I'll huff and I'll puff or I'll go on the roff!" thinks the wolf: Spontaneous written narratives by a Child with Autism
    Year: 2007
    Book: Mental States Vol. 2: Language and Cognitive Structure
    Publisher: Benjamins - John Benjamins Publishing Company(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • The Absent Breast: Speaking of the Mastectomied Body
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Feminism & Psychology
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 75-92
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Two times three little pigs: dysfluency, cognitive complexity & autism.
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Conference Publication: Selected Papers from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society, Brisbane 7-9th July 2006
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: Australian Linguistics Society(Sydney)
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Publications in 2005

Major Reference Works

  • Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics:

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    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
    Publisher: Elsevier(Oxford)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Discourse structure, grounding, and prosody in task-oriented dialogue


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Discourse Processes
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-31
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Deixis and Anaphora
    Year: 2002
    Book: The Cambridge grammar of the English language
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Intonational rises and dialogue acts in the Australian English map task


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Language and Speech
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 229-254
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  • Thematic organization of discourse and referential choices in Australian languages
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Discourse and Cognition
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-21
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A dialogue act analysis of rises in Australian English map task dialogues
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 1st international conference on speech prosody
    Conference Publication: Speech prosody 2002: Proceedings of the 1st internaitonal conference on speech prosody
    Page numbers: 299-302
    Publisher: Universite de Provence(Aix-en-Provence)
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  • Turn and turn about: does prosody help the hearer?
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Ninth Australian international conference on speech science and technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the ninth Australian international conference on speech and technology
    Page numbers: 491-496
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Representational issues in annotation: Using the Australian map task corpus to relate prosody and discourse structure.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Speech Communication
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 113-134
    Publisher: North-Holland
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  • The multifunctionality of anaphoric expressions: a typological perspective.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Linguistics
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 7-23
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing
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