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DR BARBARA KELLY



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: LECTURER IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Email:
Homepage: http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/kelly/
Work: 8344 8986
Fax: 9347 2613
Room: 512
Level: 05
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
First Language Acquisition socialization, gesture, lexical acquisition, input United States of America
Sociolinguistics socialization, community of practice, social network, teen United States of America
Social Computing online communities, online practices, online language use United States of America
Gesture development, cross-cultural, socialization United States of America
Tibeto-Burman languages Sherpa, evidentials, narrative structure Nepal, United States of America, United Kingdom

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States IBM Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
PHD University of California - Santa Barbara 31-Dec-2003

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
Social cognition and language the design resources of grammatical diversity Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

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 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • "Mummy! Ball! Fish!": Why English-learning children produce nouns earlier than verbs
    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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    URL - open access http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view.php?pid=UQ:13254
  • One size doesn't fit all: Research methodologies in a language variation study of Sudanese teens
    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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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Constructions in Acquisition
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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Book Chapters

  • Constructions and Acquisition
    Year: 2006
    Book: Constructions in Acquisition
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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  • The Development of Constructions Through Early Gesture Use
    Year: 2006
    Book: Constructions in Acquisition
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • A grammar and glossary of the Sherpa language
    Year: 2004
    Book: Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal: Manange and Sherpa
    Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Publishers(Canberra)
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  • Development of Community in Computer Mediated Communication: A Social Network Analysis
    Year: 2004
    Book: Language, Culture and Mind
    Publisher: CSLI Publications(Stanford)
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