Dr Barbara Kelly
Contact details
Phone +61 3 8344 8986
Email:b.kelly@ unimelb.edu.au
Office: Arts Centre, 512
Qualifications
BA and MA (Linguistics) La Trobe University
PhD (Linguistics) University of California, Santa Barbara
Prior to commencing at Uni Melb I had a teaching position at Stanford University and also worked in the Social Computing group at IBM, and at Lexicon Branding, Inc. which created such brand names such as Pentium, Powerbook, Blackberry, and Zune.
Research Fields and Areas of Supervision
My current research interests are as follows:
- Social cognition and evidentiality in Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal – in particular Sherpa.
- Verbal and pre-verbal communications of Sherpa-learning children in caregiver-child interactions.
- Early communications of English-learning children in peer environments.
- Online community building via language resources
Grants held at University of Melbourne
- The future of Murrinh-Patha: identifying strategies for saving Australia’s languages – 2008 Faculty of Arts Research Grant: $16,853 (with Rachel Nordlinger and Gillian Wigglesworth)
- Social cognition and language: the design resources of grammatical diversity – 2007 ARC Discovery: $400,000 (with Nicholas Evans & Alan Rumsey (ANU), Steven Levinson & Nick Enfield (MPI) Andrea Schalley (Griffith))
- Extensible personae for extensible toys – 2007 ARC Linkage: $310,000 (with Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff, Lawrence Cavedon, Fabio Zambetta (RMIT), Silvio Salome (RealThing))
- Sherpa mother-child interaction - 2006 Early Career Researcher Grant: $17,500
- Peer-peer infant interaction – 2006 School of Languages and Linguistics Grant in-aid: $2,997
Selected Publications
2007 KELLY, B. F "Mummy! Ball! Fish!": Why English-learning children produce nouns earlier than verbs. Proceedings of Australian Linguistics Society, 2006. University of Queensland Press.
2007 Izon, M. and KELLY, B. F One size doesn’t fit all: Research methodologies in a language variation study of Sudanese teens. Proceedings of Australian Linguistics Society, 2006. University of Queensland Press.
2006 Clark, E.V and KELLY B. F, Constructions in Acquisition. Palo Alto: CSLI
2006 KELLY, B. F. The development of constructions through gesture. In Clark, E. V. and Kelly. B. F. (eds.). Constructions in Acquisition. Palo Alto: CSLI p. 11-25.
2006 Clark, E. V. and KELLY. B. F. Constructions and acquisition. In Clark, E.V. and Kelly. B. F. (eds.). Constructions in Acquisition. CSLI/University of Chicago Press. p. 1-10
2004 KELLY, B. F. A Grammar of Sherpa. In C. Genetti (ed.) Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal: Manange and Sherpa. Pacific Linguistics, pp. 232-440.
2004 KELLY, B. F, Leben W., and Cohen, B. The meanings of consonants. Proceedings of 29th Berkeley Linguistics Society. pp. 245-53.
2004 KELLY, B. F and Halverson, C.A. Development of community in computer mediated conversation: A social network analysis. In M. Achard and S. Kemmer (eds.). Language, Culture and Mind. CSLI. pp. 55-67
2003 Lemon, O., Cavedon, L. and KELLY, B. Managing dialogue interaction: A multi-layered approach. Proceedings of the 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue. pp. 168-177
2002 "Well you can't put your swimsuit on on top of your pants!": Child-mother uses of in and on. In E. V. Clark (ed). Child Language Research Forum. CSLI. pp10-21.
2002 Florey, M. J and KELLY, B. F. Directionals, spatial conceptualisation and language shift in Alune. In G. Bernnardo (ed.). Representing space in Oceania ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 11-46. Refereed conference proceedings
2001 The development of speech, gesture, and action as communicative strategies. In Proceedings of 27th Berkeley Linguistic Society.