About
The Aboriginal Child Language Project is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. We are interested in the type of input children receive in multilingual environments that include a traditional language, a contact variety of English and code-mixing between languages and speech styles.
We have been following 5-10 children and their families in 3 communities (2004-2007): Kalkaringi, Tennant Creek and Yakanarra. Additionally Carmel O'Shannessy (MPI, Nijmegen and University of Sydney) has been studying children's acquisition of Light Warlpiri and Warlpiri at Lajamanu.