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PROF JOHN HAJEK



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Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: PROFESSOR AND READER
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Homepage: http://www.fritss.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/hajek.html
Work: 8344 5168
Fax: 9347 2489
Room: 615
Level: 06
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
East Timor language, culture, history East Timor
ltalian and Romance linguistics dialectology, phonology, phonetics Italy, France, Portugal, Spain
language typology phonetics, phonology Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Italy

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Germany Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum Research
United States University of Chicago Research
Netherlands Leiden University Research
Italy University of Siena Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1983
Doctor of Philosophy University of Oxford 31-Dec-1992

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 25-Aug-2005

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Australian Academy of the Humanities 03-Nov-2000

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.

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
EVALUATION OF CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL PROVISION OF LANGUAGES AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 04/01/2007
COLLECTION OF STUDENT AND TEACHER LANGUAGE EDUCATION DATA 2007 - 2008 PROJECT Chief Investigator DEPT OF EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT & WORKPLACE RELATIONS 03/02/2009

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

Journal Articles

  • Illustrations of the IPA: Mah Meri


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of the International Phonetic Association
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 241-248
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  • On labial-velar stops and nasals in Vietnamese
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Mon-Khmer Studies
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Multilingual knowledge, practices and attitudes in the European Union


    Year: 2008
    Book: Multilingual Europe: Reflections on language and identity
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Journal Articles

  • A tale of two multilingual cities in a multicultural continent


    Year: 2008
    Journal: People and Place
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1-8
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  • Dummy pronoun insertion after conditional "if" in Greco-Corsican
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Transactions of the Philological Society
    Volume: 106
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 414-431
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Positional effects on the characterization of ejectives in Waima'a


    Year: 2008
    Event name: Interspeech 2008
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008
    Page numbers: 1124-1127
    Publisher: ISCA(Bonn)
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  • Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian


    Year: 2008
    Event name: Interspeech 2008
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 incorporating SST 2008
    Page numbers: 516-519
    Publisher: ISCA(Bonn)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Not just Tetum: Language development and the case of Waima'a


    Year: 2007
    Book: East Timor: Beyond independence
    Publisher: Monash University Press(Melbourne)
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  • Sound systems of the Asia-Pacific: Some basic typological observations
    Year: 2007
    Book: Endangered languages
    Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag(Hamburg)
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Journal Articles

  • Tracce rare della vocale turbata ü in area Alto-Vicentina [Rare traces of the palatal vowel ü in the Upper Vicentino area]


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Revue de Linguistique Romane
    Volume: 71
    Issue: 281-282
    Page numbers: 65-71
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  • Community languages and LOTE provision in Victorian primary schools: Mix or match?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 7.1-7.22
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A cross-linguistic comparison of address pronoun use in four European languages: Intralingual and interlingual dimensions


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Conference Publication: Selected papers from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: The University of Queensland(Brisbane)
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  • Prosodic conditioning of Portugese subjects' perception of vowel nasality


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 741-744
    Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF SAARLAND(SAARBRUCKEN)
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  • Towards a phonetic conspectus of preaspiration: Acoustic evidence from Sienese Italian


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 429-436
    Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF SAARLAND(SAARBRUCKEN)
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  • Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Italian


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 1057-1060
    Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF SAARLAND(SAARBRUCKEN)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Language Contact and Convergence in East Timor: The Case of Tetun Dili
    Year: 2006
    Book: Grammars In Contact. A Cross-Linguistic Typology
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • On the Edge of the Pacific: Indonesia and East Timor
    Year: 2006
    Book: Language Diversity in the Pacific. Endangerment and Survival
    Publisher: Multilingual Matters(Clevedon)
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  • Serial Verbs in Tetun Dili
    Year: 2006
    Book: Serial Verb Constructions. A Cross-linguistic Typology
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • Gayo
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the International Phonetic Association
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 107-115
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  • On doubly-articulated labial-velar stops and nasals in Tibeto-Burman
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 125-133
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  • Patterns of Address in Dili Tetum, East Timor
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 21.1- 21.18
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Raddoppiamento sintattico and prosodic phonology: A re-evaluation
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 2005 Australian Linguistics Society Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from the 2005 Australian Linguistics Society Conference
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: Australian Linguistics Society(Sydney)
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  • L'inibizione dell'allungamento consonantico ai confini di parola nell'italiano senese: Alcune prove uditive e acustiche [Inhibition of consonant lengthening at word boundaries in Sienese Italian: Some auditory and acoustic evidence]


    Year: 2006
    Event name: AISV 2006 3rd National Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the AISV 2006 3rd National Conference
    Page numbers: 17-26
    Publisher: EDK Editore SRL(Torriana)
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  • Un'indagine preliminare sull'allungamento vocalico in posizione non finale in friulano [A preliminary investigation of vowel lengthening in non-final position in Friulian]


    Year: 2006
    Event name: AISV 2006 3rd National Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the AISV 2006 3rd National Conference
    Page numbers: 27-31
    Publisher: EDK Editore SRL(Torriana)
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  • A preliminary investigation of vowel lengthening in non-final position in Friulian
    Year: 2006
    Event name: the 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology
    Page numbers: 239-242
    Publisher: University of Auckland(Auckland)
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  • Blocking of word-boundary consonant lengthening in Sienese Italian: some auditory and acoustic evidence
    Year: 2006
    Event name: the 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceeedings of the 11th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology
    Page numbers: 176-181
    Publisher: University of Auckland(Auckland)
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  • Register in Mah Meri: a preliminary phonetic analysis
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Speech Prosody 3rd International Conference
    Conference Publication: Speech Prosody 3rd International Conference
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: TUD Press(Dresden)
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  • When best practice isn't necessarily the best thing to do: dealing with capacity limits in a developing country
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Sustainable data from digital fieldwork
    Conference Publication: Sustainable data from digital fieldwork
    Page numbers: 45-55
    Publisher: University of Sydney(Sydney)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Raddoppiamento sintattico (RS) and word-medial gemination in Italian: Are they the same or are they different? The evidence from spontaneous speech
    Year: 2005
    Book: Theoretical and experimental approaches to Romance linguistics
    Publisher: Benjamins - John Benjamins Publishing Company(Amsterdam)
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  • Vowel nasalization
    Year: 2005
    Book: The World Atlas of Language Structures
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • La preaspirazione delle occlusive sorde geminate nel senese
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Misura dei Parametri. Aspetti tecnologici ed implicazioni nei modelli linguistici
    Conference Publication: Misura dei Parametri - aspetti tecnologici ed implicazioni nei modelli linguistici: Atti del 1 Convegno Nazionale AISV 2004
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 89-100
    Publisher: Universita di Padova(Padova)
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  • On the acoustic characterization of ejective stops in Waima'a
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005 - the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005 - the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
    Page numbers: 2889-2892
    Publisher: ISCA(Bonn)
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  • Spirantization of /p t k/ in Sienese Italian and so-called semi-fricatives
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005 - the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005 - the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
    Page numbers: 2893-2896
    Publisher: ISCA(Bonn)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Adjective classes: What can we conclude?
    Year: 2004
    Book: Adjective classes: A cross-linguistic typology
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • A crosslinguistic lexicon of the labial flap
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Linguistic Discovery
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 21-57
    Publisher: Dartmouth College, Trustees
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  • Consonant inventories as an areal feature of the New Guinea-Pacific region: Testing Trudgill's hypotheses
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Linguistic Typology
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 343-350
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  • Keeping it all in the family: Tu, lei and voi. A study of address pronoun use in Italian
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 97-114
    Publisher: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia(Melbourne)
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  • The rise and fall of modern Greek in Australia's universities: What can a quantitative analysis tell us?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 195-209
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Il fenomeno del raddoppiamento sintattico nella realtá linguistica italiana [The phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (syntactic doubling) in Italian]


    Year: 2004
    Event name: Il parlato italiano
    Conference Publication: Il parlato italiano: Atti del convegno nazionale di Napoli
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: M D'Auria Editore(Naples)
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    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001537/
  • A preliminary investigation of some acoustic characteristics of ejectives in Waima'a: VOT and closure duration
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Page numbers: 277-282
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
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  • Comparing voiced and voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian: What role does preaspiration play?
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Page numbers: 340-345
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
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  • How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Page numbers: 334-339
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
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  • Preaspiration in Sienese Italian and its interaction with stress in /VC:/ sequences
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Speech Prosody 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004
    Page numbers: 57-60
    Publisher: SProSIG(Provence)
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  • Tonal activity in Kara, an Austronesian language spoken in New Britain
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Page numbers: 295-300
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Crosslinguistic insights on the labial flap
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Linguistic Typology
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 157-186
    Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
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  • Evidence of tonal activity in Aslian
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Mon-Khmer Studies
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 59-66
    Publisher: SIL International
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  • Lóvaia: An East Timorese language on the verge of extinction
    Year: 2003
    Journal: International Journal of the Sociology of Language
    Volume: 160
    Page numbers: 155-167
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  • Um sufixo românico numa língua Austronésia: -dor em Tetum
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Revue de Linguistique Romane
    Volume: 67
    Page numbers: 55-65
    Publisher: Societe de Linguistique Romane
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  • Word-initial geminates and stress in Pattani Malay
    Year: 2003
    Journal: The Linguistic Review
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 79-94
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Cross-linguistic study of the effect of suprasegmental features conditioning the development of nasal vowels
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 2809-2812
    Publisher: Causal Productions(Adelaide)
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  • Patterns of vowel nasalisation in northern Italy: Articulatory versus perceptual
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Page numbers: 235-238
    Publisher: Causal Productions(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • A short grammar of Tetun Dili.
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Lincom Europa(Munich)
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  • Tetun Dili: A grammar of an East Timorese language.
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Publishers(Canberra)
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Book Chapters

  • "Language Maintenance and Survival in East Timor: all change now? Winners and losers."
    Year: 2002
    Book: Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance
    Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon(London)
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Journal Articles

  • "Parlaree Un gergo Italianizzante in Inglese."
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Rivista Italian di Dialettologia: scuola societa territorio
    Volume: XXVI
    Issue: 2002
    Page numbers: 1-23
    Publisher: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna(Bologna)
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  • "A Phonological Oddity in the Austronesian Area: Ejectives in Waimoa."
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Oceanic Linguistics
    Volume: 41
    Issue: June 2002
    Page numbers: 222-224
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Major Reference Works

  • :Language Opportunities: A directory of grants, awards and scholarships for language students and professionals.
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Language Australia(Canberra)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • "A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren't Told about Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 2002 Australian Linguistics Society Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: Australian Linguistics Society(Sydney)
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    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001538/
  • "L'Impatto della cucina mediterranea in Australia e nel Pacifico."
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Saperi e Sapori Mediterranei: La Cultura dell'Alimentazione e i suoi Riflessi Linguistici
    Conference Publication: Quaderni di AION
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 1205-1229
    Publisher: Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli(Naples)
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  • "Raddoppiamento sintattico and glottalization phenomena in italian: a first phonetic excursus."
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Ninth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Ninth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2002
    Page numbers: 154-159
    Publisher: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association(Canberra)
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    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002426/
  • Languages and cultures in Australia in the 21st century


    Year: 2002
    Event name: National Humanities and Social Sciences Summit July 2001
    Conference Publication: Humanities and Social Sciences Futures: Papers from the National Humanities and Social Sciences Summit July 2001
    Page numbers: 87-96
    Publisher: Commonwealth of Australia(Canberra)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A Report on the Current Sociolinguistic Situation in Lautém (East Timor)
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2001
    Page numbers: 88-97
    Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Linguistica(Dili)
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  • Serial Verbs in Tetun-Dili: A Preliminary Account
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2001
    Page numbers: 48-60
    Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Linguistica(Dili)
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  • Shouldn't Tetun be a new priority Asian language for Australia?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Language Matters
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 5, 8
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Major Reference Works

  • :East Timor Phrasebook
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Lonely Planet(Footscray)
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