Collection details
Collection ID WSCT
Title Wellsprings Cootamundra
Description Sociolinguistic interviews conducted in Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia

The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity was a five year Laureate project awarded by the Australian Research Council to Professor Nicholas Evans within the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University. The project ran from 2014 to 2019.

The project sought to address fundamental questions of linguistic diversity and disparity through an analysis of linguistic variation and change. The project addressed a crucial missing step in existing linguistic research by addressing the question of what drives linguistic diversification so much faster in some societies than in others. It did so by undertaking intensive, matched case studies of speech communities across Australia and the Pacific, allowing researchers to detect variations in languages as they occur and compare the amounts and types of variation found in different sorts of settings, with a particular focus on small-scale multilingual speech communities. It aimed to generate an integrated model of language variation and change, building in interactions between social and linguistic processes. The research findings offered insights into the enormous diversity of human experience, vital for fields as diverse as cognitive science, human evolutionary biology, anthropology and archaeology.
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/WSCT
Collector
Nicholas Evans
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Operator Melody Ann Ross
Originating university Australian National University
Countries
Australia - AU
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Languages
English - eng
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Region / village Cootmundra, NSW
DOI 10.26278/3BDM-H307
Cite as Nicholas Evans (collector), 2012. Wellsprings Cootamundra. Collection WSCT at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/3BDM-H307
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Items in Collection (17)

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20171012BG Sociolinguistic Interview View
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20171204CB Sociolinguistic Interview View
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20171208RH Sociolinguistic Interview View
20180112A Sociolinguistic Interview View
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