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In talks with Peter Austin about his career in field linguists and the history of language documentation in Australia
In this interview, we talk to Peter Austin about his career in field linguists and the history of language documentation in Australia, in particular how the role of Indigenous community members has changed over the past 50 years.
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References for Episode 62
Austin, Peter K. 2025. Adding value to legacy linguistic fieldnotes: an Australian case study. Submitted to SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics.
Dobrin, Lise , Peter K. Austin and David Nathan. 2009. Dying to be counted: the commodification of endangered languages in documentary linguistics. Language Documentation and Description 6, 37-52.
Dobrin, Lise and Steve Schwartz. 2022. The social lives of linguistic legacy materials. Language Documentation and Description 21, 1-36.
Peter Austin’s website: https://peterkaustin.com/projects/
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