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Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia: 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies. July 2005 Bangkok, Thailand: AsiaPacifiQueer NetworkTransmission of academic values in Asian Studies. 25 & 26 June 2009 Canberra: Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration
Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting. March 2012 Canberra, Australia
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Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Constitutions & human rights in a global age: an Asia-Pacific perspective. Conference papers.(Division of Pacific and Asia History, RSPAS, The Australian National University, 2003) Morris-Suzuki (Ed.), TessaIn the modern world, the constitutions of nation states have come to be seen as the key guarantors of human rights. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the national constitution became the basis of the political order in most countries around the world. The extent to which the constitution provides effective protection for the rights of citizens has thus become a major determinant of the political life of nations, including the nations of the Asia-Pacific region. (First paragraph of introduction).Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Modal analysis of holey fiber mode-selective couplers(Photonics and Electromagnetic Group (PEG) of Padova University, 2014-09) Parini, A; Riesen, N; Argyros, A; Lwin, R; Leon-Sacal, S G; Love, J D; Bellanca, G; Bassi, PMode Division Multiplexing is currently investigated as a possible way to increase fiber system capacity. With this approach, different modes of the same fiber carry distinct information. One of the problems to be solved in these systems concerns coupling/decoupling of the various modes to/from the same fiber. In this presentation, the mode features of a mode mux/demux based on holey fibers are investigated, with particular emphasis on optimal device design. Some preliminary experimental results will also be presented.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Three-core weakly-guiding mode-selective fibre couplers(Australian Institute of Physics, 2012) Riesen, Nicolas; Love, John DThe coupling behaviour of two-core mode-selective couplers (MSC) depends on the spatial-orientation of the asymmetric higher-order modes. This restricts their use for mode de-multiplexing in few-mode fibre networks. The use of three-core MSC's is presented as a solution.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Y-Junction based splitters and combiners for few-mode optical fibre networks(Australian Institute of Physics, 2012) Love, John D; Riesen, NicolasIt is shown how planar Y-junction based combiners and splitters can form the basis for the individual excitation and detection of the fundamental and low-order modes in a few-mode optical fibre network.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Digitally range-gated optical frequency domain reflectometry(The Optical Society, 2013-12) Riesen, Nicolas; Lam, Timothy T.-Y; Chow, Jong HWe present a new optical frequency domain reflectometry technique which permits high frequency sweep repetition rates without sacrificing range. This technique could thus be adapted for remote and distributed acoustic sensing over long lengths of fibre.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Wavelength-independent mode-selective couplers for few-mode fibre networks(The Optical Society, 2013-12) Love, John D; Riesen, NicolasA novel type of tapered fibre coupler is proposed and simulated that enables wavelength-independent directional coupling between a higher-order mode and a fundamental mode for application to few-mode optical fibre networks.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Holey fibre mode-selective couplers(The Optical Society, 2013) Riesen, Nicolas; Argyros, Alexander; Parini, Alberto; Lwin, Richard; Leon-Saval, Sergio G; Bellanca, Gaetano; Bassi, Paolo; Love, John DMode-selective coupling in an asymmetric holey fibre coupler is demonstrated both numerically and experimentally for the first time. The coupler's performance is shown to be ultrabroadband, with significant potential existing for the use of such couplers in high bandwidth few-mode fibre networks.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Australia's ever-changing forests: Proceedings of the First National Conference on Australian forest history(University of New South Wales, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1988)CONTENTS: Foreword, page v. THE ECOLOGICAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN FORESTS: Review Paper: The Ecological History of Australian Forests / Geoff Hope and Jamie Kirkpatrick, page 3. An Ecological View of the History of Logging and Fire in Mumbulla State Forest on the South Coast of New South Wales / Daniel Lunney and Chris Moon , page 23. The Status of Casuarinaceae in Australian Forests / P.G. Ladd, page 63. Invasion of Australian Forests by Alien Woody Plants / J.M.B. Smith and B.M. Waterhouse, page 87. Australia's Arboreal Marsupial Fauna: Past and Present / Tony W. Norton, page 99. Human Activity, Fire and Change in the Forest at Hogsback Plain, Southern Tasmania / F.D. Podger, T. Bird, J.M. Brown, page 119. THE FORESTS AND ABORIGINAL SOCIETY: Review Paper: Forests and Aboriginal Society / Annie Boutland, page 143. Prehistoric Aboriginal Relationships with the Forests of the Riverine Plain in South-Eastrn Australia / Kathryn Lyons, page 169. Aboriginal Use of Forests in South-Eastem Australia: Past and Present / Sue Feary, page 179. Pre-Settlement and Post-Settlement Vegetational Change and Probable Aboriginal Influences in a Highland Forested Area in Tasmania / R.C. Ellis and I. Thomas, page 199. PUBLIC FORESTRY: The State of Knowledge of the History of Public Forests and Forestry in Australia / L.T. Carron, page 217. Re-writing the History of Forestry? Changing Perceptions of Forest Management in the New World / Stephen M. Legg, page 223. The Role of Forest Research in the Exotic Plantation Forests in South-East Queensland / M.U. Slee, G.M. Shea, B.M. Schaumberg, page 237. THE FOREST INDUSTRIES AND LABOUR: A Review of Australian Forest Industry and Labour History / John Dargavel, page 257. The 'Teddy Bears': A History of the South West Timber Hewers Co-operative Society, Western Australia / Jenny Mills, page 275. Rail or Road? The State's Policy Dilemma on Timber Transport in the Otway Ranges 1890-1955 / Norman Houghton, page 291. REGIONAL APPROACHES: Review Paper: The Forest Record in Australian Local and Regional History / Kevin Frawley, page 303. Approaches to a Forest History of the Northern Territory / Nicola L. Hanssen and David L. Wigston, page 333. Clearing the Scrubs of South-East Queensland / Don Watson, page 365. CONSERVATION AND NATIONAL PARKS: The History of Conservation and the National Park Concept in Australia: A State of Knowledge Review / Kevin Frawley, page 395. Timeless Wilderness? The Use of Historical Source Material in Understanding Environmental Change in Gippsland, Victoria / Jane Lennon, page 419. The 'Worthless Lands Hypothesis' and Australia's National Parks and Reserves / Colin Michael Hall, page 441. SOURCES FOR FOREST HISTORY: Review Paper: Keeping Track of the World of Foresters / Charles Fahey, page 459. Archival Resources for Forest History / Michael Saclier, page 477. Oral History Sources for Australian Forest History / Jennifer Gall, page 485. The Australian Bicentennial Historic Records Search and Sources for Forest History / Marion Amies, page 495. Keeping the Forest History: The Management of the Cultural Heritage of Forests, a Tasmanian Example / Anne McConnell, page 507. FOREST HISTORY IN NORTH AMERICA: The Forest History of North America: Methods and Means / H.K. Steen, page 519. APPENDIX 1: Proposal to form an Australian Forest History Society, page 527.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Australia's ever-changing forests V: Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Australian forest history(ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES), 2002)CONTENTS: List of authors, page vii. Preface, page ix. THEMES IN FOREST HISTORY: 1. Chinese poems on forests and trees / Mark Elvin, page 3. 2. lUFRO forest history research: stages and trends / Elisabeth Johann, page 15. 3. Themes in European woodland history / Jan Oosthoek, page 28. 4. Sources and silences in Australian forest history / John Dargavel, page 39. 5. Localism in Victorian forest conservation before 1900 / Stephen M. Legg, page 49. FOREST SCIENCE: 6. Joseph Dalton Hooker and Tasmanian flora / Sybil Jack, page 73. 7. Wollemi pine: tree find of the 20th century / J.C.G. Banks, page 85. 8. Micro-structure of Araucariaceae / Roger Heady, page 90. TASMANIA: 9. Government sawing establishments in Van Diemen's Land, 1817-1832 / Peter MacFie, page 105. 10. Wattle bark in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1830 / Kaye McPherson, page 132. 11. Life in a lost Tasmanian rainforest, winter 1827 / Brian Rollins, page 146. 12. Save the Forests: forest reform in Tasmania, 1912-1920 / Stefan Petrow, page 163. 13. A land reborn: 'Lorinna over the bridge' / Robert Onfray, page 184. 14. Old forests and Tasmania's early national parks movement / Debbie Quarmby, page 197. 15. Conservation, timber and perceived values at Mt Field, Tasmania / Kevin Kiernan, page 209. 16. Hard work to starve: a Tasmanian play / John Dargavel, page 228. OTHER STATES AND TERRITORIES: 17. Historical records of tree density in the 'Big Scrub' / Brett J. Stubbs and Alison Specht, page 253. 18. Long Creek: from logging to World Heritage / Jane Lennon, page 274. 19. Ecological changes to forests in the Eden region of New South Wales / Daniel Lunney and Alison Matthews, page 289. 20. Forest communities: real or imagined? / Peter Davies, page 311. 21. Days of nature in Australia / Libby Robin, page 324. 22. Early Queensland forestry: George Board and Philip MacMahon / Peter Holzworth, page 342. 23. Kim Kessell: a first class sensible bloke / Jenny Mills, page 357. 24. Saying goodbye to heritage trees / Robert W. Boden, page 366. 25. Wombat Forest Society: tactics, talk, audits and action / Anitra Nelson, page 375. BEYOND AUSTRALIA: 26. Thinking about New Zealand's forests, 1900-1914 / Paul Star, page 399. 27. Allied logging and milling in Papua New Guinea during World War II / Judith A. Bennett, page 410. 28. A short history of fire management in the USA / David Ryan, page 432Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Australia's ever-changing forests IV: Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Australian forest history(ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES), 1999)CONTENTS: List of authors, page iii. Preface, page v. MEANING: 1. Our people: the Gubbi Gubbi / Eve Mumewa D. Fesl, page 3. 2. Aboriginal practices in East Gippsland forests precontact / Anitra Nelson, page 5. 3. Bikbus wokabaut: Human influences and wild nature in Australasia / Tom Heinsohn, page 17. 4. Trees age and memories change in the Avenues of Honour and Remembrance / John Dargavel, page 37. 5. Gardens, patriotism and the defence of forests / Libby Robin, page 54. CONSERVING: 6. Mismanagement of Royal forest in England, 1500-1640 / Sybil Jack, page 69. 7. Place of native forest in New Zealand's mental landscape, 1874 / Paul Star, page 85. 8. Nineteenth century origins of some rainforest nature reserves in northern New South Wales / Brett J. Stubbs, page 99. 9. Public and private ownership, government and forestry / Kenneth E. Jackson, page 115. MANAGING: 10. Hoop pine nursery techniques, 1916-1997 / John Huth, page 127. 11. Establishing professional forestry in Queensland: the Swain years, 1918-1932 / Kevin Frawley, page 144. 12. Charles Weston's contribution to afforestation and conservation in the federal capital / John Gray, page 165. 13. Bushfire, brown barrel and bloody cold weather: Bull's Head revisited / Matthew Higgins, page 181. 14. Bush to managed forest: harvesting sawlogs in East Gippsland, 1947-1983 / Moray Douglas, page 190. 15. Recent forest-use disputes in Queensland: a history of resolution / Peter Holzworth, page 205. 16. Tourism and recreation in the forests of south-western Australia / Dale Sanders, page 224. USING: 17. Colonial enterprise: Pettigrew and Sim's Dundathu Sawmill, 1862-1893 / Elaine Brown, page 239. 18. Henry's Mill: the archaeology and history of an Otways sawmill settlement / Peter Davies, page 247. 19. Stakeholders, lobbyists and politicians at Brooloo / Judith Powell, page 260. 20. Australian logging interests in the Solomon Islands, c. 1920-1970 / Judith A. Bennett, page 273. 21. Maydena, the logging town in a colonised valley / Peter MacFie, page 293. UNDERSTANDING: 22. Flowering records in Victorian box-ironbark forests / Marie R. Keatley, Irene L. Hudson and Tim Fletcher, page 311. 23. Species trials and arboreta in Tasmania / Denise Gaughwin, page 329. 24. It soothes my soul: Assessing aesthetic values of forests / Juliet Ramsay, page 342. 25. Artists of south-east Queensland forests / Jane Lennon, page 356. 26. Through a glass darkly? Leaves from the postmodern forest / Stephen M. Legg, page 372.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Australia's ever-changing forests III: Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Australian forest history(ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES), 1997)CONTENTS: List of Authors, page iii. Preface, page v. CONCEPTS OF FOREST AGE: 1. Ancient forests: the idea of forest age in the Greek and Latin classics / J Donald Hughes, page 3. 2. European concepts of forest age / Oliver Rackham, page 11. 3. Primeval forests in Australia / Tim Bonyhady, page 24. 4. Tree ages and ageing in vellow box / J.C.G. Banks, page 35. 5. Growth rates: debating pathways for New Zealand forestry / Michael Roche, page 48. ASPECTS OF AGE IN AUSTRALIAN STATES: 6. Age and order in Victoria's forests / John Dargavel and Heather McRae, page 61. 7. Assessing Queensland's forests / John Dargavel and Damien Moloney, page 74. 8. Bush, brush, forest and scrub / Pauline Curby, page 89. 9. Changing community concepts of age in the jarrah forest / Dale Sanders, page 103. 10. Old regrowth of the Boranup karri forest / Jenny Mills, page 112. VALUING THE FORESTS: 11. Valuing old-growth forests: a product of time, culture or business ethics / Kyle Weyburne and Kenneth Jackson, page 123. 12. Cultural values in the assessment of old-growth forests / Richard Lamb and Colleen Morris, page 130. 13. In fealty to venerable forests / Norman Endacott, page 144. 14. Frontiers of green: pine plantations and local communities / Ruth Lane, page 155. USING THE FORESTS: 15. Aboriginal use and rainforest clearing in the Atherton Tablelands before 1920 / Terry G. Birtles, page 169. 16. Archeological evidence for a horse-drawn tramway at Bawley Point / Michael Tracey, page 188. 17. Changing forestry perceptions at Mount Macedon, 1872-1995 / F.R. Moulds and M.J. Burns, page 210. 18. Refuge from fire: sawmill dugouts in Victoria / Peter Evans, page 216. TRANSFORMING THE FOREST ECOLOGY: 19. Forests of East Gippsland before the Europeans / Moray Douglas, page 231. 20. Flying foxes and their camps in the remnant rainforests of north-east NSW / Daniel Lunney and Chris Moon, page 247. 21. Phantoms in the foliage: unveiling camouflaged human influences on rainforests / Tom Heinsohn, page 278. 22. Ecological democracy in New Zealand / S.D. Richardson, page 296. PUBLIC HISTORY AND METHODS: 23. Forestry and the policy process: Victoria and South Australia, 1870-1939 / Stephen M. Legg, page 303. 24. Integrating cultural and natural heritage in Queensland / Margaret Kowald and Rebecca Williams, page 327. 25. Mapping disturbance for old-growth forest in south-east Queensland / Hilary Smith and Damien Moloney, page 339. 26. Studies for the Western Forest Region of New South Wales / Jane Lennon, page 347. 27. East Otway odyssey of rugged field work / Norman Houghton, page 353.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Australia's ever-changing forests II: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Australian forest history(ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES), 1993-08)CONTENTS: Preface, page iii. EARLY PERCEPTIONS: 1. Nineteenth century perceptions of Victorian forests: ideas and concerns of Ferdinand Mueller / Linden Gillbank, page 3. 2. Tall stories and tall trees / Frank R. Moulds, page 15. REGIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: 3. Cultural significance of East Gippsland forests / Anita Brady, page 31. 4. Secrets of the forest: writing environmental history / Tom Griffiths, page 47. 5. Effect of settlement on the forests of the Central Plateau, Tasmania / R.C. Ellis, page 55. 6. Penders Perpetual Forest Plantation / Sue Feary, page 67. 7. Land use history of the white cypress pine forests in the Snowy Valley, Kosciusko National Park / I.F. Pulsford, J.C.G. Banks and L. Hodges, page 85. 8. Environmental history of Waratah Creek catchment, Coolangubra State Forest, New South Wales / Angela Rymer, page 105. 9. Victorian School of Forestry: Forestry education / Frank R. Moulds, page 129. 10. Victorian School of Forestry: Demonstration Forest / Jane Lennon, page 135. FOREST INDUSTRIES: Logging technology and forest cutting practices / Kevin Frawley, page 143. Assessing heritage values of sawmills and tramways in Central Victoria / Peter Evans, page 165. Tracking the KTC from Kauri to Karri to Chatlee / Michael Roche, John Dargavel and Jenny Mills, page 187. PUBLIC HISTORY: Changing nature of Federal-State relations in forestry / L.T. Carron, page 207. Regional assessment of the heritage values of forests / Rosemary Purdie and Mike Cavanagh, page 241. 'How many ships sail in the forest?': Inventory of historic places in Tasmania's forests / Anne McConnell, page 261. Forest history at the National Museum / Ruth Lane, page 273. Oral forest history and the National Library / Gregg Borschmann, page 283. Authors, page IItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Musicolinguistic artistry of niraval in Carnatic vocal music(Australian Linguistic Society, 2012-10) Radhakrishnan, MaheshNiraval is a form of virtuosic musicolinguistic improvisation in Carnatic music whereby a line within a song is repeated in various melodic and rhythmic manifestations within the rāgam (melodic framework) and tāḷam (beat cycle). For a Carnatic singer, niraval makes different aesthetic demands than other forms of non-textual improvisation within the tradition. To convey artful, sincere renditions of the same lyrical text, the singer-musician must imaginatively devise interesting repetitions which attend to both melodic and rhythmic elements and the lyric text. Combining melodic and rhythmic skill and verbal artistry in a range of South Indian languages as well as Sanskrit, Carnatic singers display extraordinary communicative and artistic competence and captivate their audiences. This paper analyses the musical and linguistic elements of a single niraval performance in Sydney’s Carnatic music community. It is hoped that such research will contribute to a greater understanding of the interplay of language and music in sung performanceItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , The expression of potential event modality in the Papuan language of Koromu(Australian Linguistic Society, 2012-10) Priestley, Carol; Maïa Ponsonnet; Loan Dao; Margit BowlerThis paper aims to give an overview of the morphosyntax and semantics of potential event modality in Koromu (Kesawai), a Madang language in the Papuan group. Potential event modality refers to Palmer’s “events that are not actualized…but are merely potential” (2001:70). Some characteristics of event modality are compared with English and other Papuan/regional languages. The study is based on Koromu data in recorded texts, collected over a number of years and on earlier grammatical analysis (Priestley 2002a, 2009, and forthcoming a). Meanings are represented in semantic explications in the natural semantic metalanguage, a metalanguage that can be used in many different languages (Goddard & Wierzbicka 2002). The findings include a range of constructions and meanings for “imperative” and “desiderative” type expressions, a distinction between external, internal and negative desires, and strategies for testing meaning and grammar analysis with Koromu speakersItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Body-parts in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol: matches and mismatches(Australian Linguistic Society, 2012-10) Ponsonnet, Maïa; Maïa Ponsonnet; Loan Dao; Margit BowlerThis article describes a number of body-part lexemes in Dalabon, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Gunwinyguan family (Australia), and their counterparts in Barunga Kriol, the local creole. The aim of this paper is a comparison between some aspects of the Dalabon body-part lexicon and their counterparts in Barunga Kriol. I discuss particularities of the Dalabon bodypart lexicon and of linguistic descriptions of the body in this language. Throughout the study of Dalabon and Barunga Kriol lexemes denoting the hand (or front paw) and its digits, the foot (or back paw) and its digits, the face, the nose and the nostrils, and finally, the head and the crown of the head, it is found that Barunga Kriol replicates some of the lexical structures of the local Aboriginal languages, but not all of them. In particular, a remarkable specificity of Dalabon, the fact that the head and the face are not labelled as such, and are preferably described as an assemblage of features, is only partially replicated in Barunga Kriol. The paper seeks to identify some of the factors explaining the matches and mismatches between Barunga Kriol and DalabonItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Non-finite complementation in French L2: a learner corpus approach(Australian Linguistic Society, 2012-10) Peters, HuguesThe Complementizer Phrase (CP) is mainly unexplored territory in L2 French acquisition studies (Herschensohn 2007:128). This study aims at partially filling this gap by exploring the structure of non-finite complementation using data from a longitudinal oral learner corpus of 10 Jamaican learners of French (Peters 2005, 2006). It specifically explores the realization of the Complementizer (COMP) functional category, and analyses the structure of the nonfinite embedded clauses with control and raising structures and embedded interrogative. The influence of the native languages and of the French input on non-target uses will be evaluated. The present study, therefore, answers White’s (2003:36) call “to probe quite intricate properties of the interlanguage representation, in order to understand the nature of the grammar that the learner creates to account for the L2.” Furthermore, this presentation explores a methodological interface (Rankin 2009) between the framework of the Principle and Parameter framework, and the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995, 1999) as applied to SLA research (Lardière 1998, 2000, 2009a, b) and the methods of learner corpus linguistics (Granger et al. 2000). The corpus approach, although unlikely to answer all relevant question of structure when crucial data is missing in naturally occurring data, will prove useful in clarifying the issues and delineate further areas of investigation.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Non-referential actor indexing in Nehan(Australian Linguistic Society, 2012-10) Olstad, JohnNon-referential actor indexing is found in many languages in the form of 3PL impersonal constructions. In the sentence, “They don’t drink root beer in Australia.”, the actor 'they' does not refer to any specific entity. In addition to 3PL impersonals, the Nehan language of northern Bougainville uses non-referential actor indexing for middle voice-like constructions, undergoer promotion, and — perhaps uniquely — expands impersonal constructions using 3SG agreement to indicate that the actor of the verb either lacks sentience or has accidentally carried out an action. This paper describes the semantics of non-referential actor indexing constructions and their role in argument structure.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , On conversational valence and the definition of interjections(Australian Linguistic Society, 2012-10) Libert, Alan ReedInterjections, like some other word classes, have proven difficult to define in a principled way, and therefore there has been disagreement about whether some words belong to this class. Lists of interjections in grammars sometimes include arguably disparate items, e.g. greeting terms, along with words such as oh and ah. There has also been dispute about the possibility or necessity for interjections to be in a syntactic relation to other components, that is, about their valence. In this paper I propose a definition of interjection which involves an extension of valence in the usual syntactic sense, introducing the notion of conversational valence to distinguish between interjections and words such as goodbye. The latter can only be felicitously used when there is an addressee present, as well as the speaker, thus having a conversational valence of 2, while interjections do not require an addressee, i.e. their conversational valence is 1. For example, if I stub my toe I can appropriately say ouch! in the absence of anyone else. Interjections are distinguished by being the only linguistic items with such a low conversational valence.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference – 2011(Australian Linguistic Society, 2012-10) Ponsonnet, Maïa; Dao, Loan; Bowler, MargitCONTENTS: Taking to the airwaves: A strategy for language revival / ROB AMERY, page 5 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9280 *** Sad stories: A preliminary study of NAPLAN practice texts analysing students’ second language linguistic resources and the effects of these on their written narratives / DENISE ANGELO, page 27 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9313 *** The Vietnamese classifiers ‘CON’, ‘CÁI’: and the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) approach: Preliminary study / LOAN DAO, page 58 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9327 *** Grammar rules, OK? What works when teaching a higly endangered Aboriginal language versus a strong languages / MARY-ANNE GALE, page 75 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9397 *** I can haz language play: The construction of language and identity in LOLspeak / LAUREN GAWNE and JILL VAUGHAN, page 97 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9398 *** Case marking (accounts) in collapse: Evidence from Early Modern Dutch egodocuments (1572-1573) / JENNIFER HENDRIKS, page 123 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9399 *** The linguistic anatomy of individual differences in Japanese monologues: Focusing on particles and interjections / SHUNICHI ISHIHARA, page 152 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9400 *** The morphosyntax of a created language of the Philippines: Folk linguistic effects and the limits of relexification / PIERS KELLY, page 179 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9401 *** Simplifying a system: A story of language change in Lelepa, Vanuatu / SÉBASTIEN LACRAMPE, page 224 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9402 *** The semantics of Cantonese utterance particle laa1 / HELEN LEUNG, page 246 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9403 *** On conversational valence and the definition of interjections / ALAN LIBERT, page 282 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9418 *** Non-referential actor indexing in Nehan / JOHN OLSTAD, page 297 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9419 *** Non-finite complementation in French L2: A learner corpus approach / HUGUES PETERS, page 316 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9420 *** Body-parts in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol: Matches and mismatches / MAÏA PONSONNET, page 352 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9421 *** The expression of potential event modality in the Papuan language of Koromu / CAROL PRIESTLEY, page 389 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9422 *** Musicolinguistic artistry of niraval in Carnatic vocal music / MAHESH RADHAKRISHNAN, page 423 - http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9423Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , The semantics of the Cantonese utterance particle 'laa1'(Australian Linguistic Society, 2012-10) Leung, Helen Hue LamThis paper will carry out an in-depth semantic analysis of one of the most salient and frequently used Cantonese utterance particles, 'laa1' (high level tone). Cantonese utterance particles occur in continuous talk every 1.5 seconds on average, and play a very important role in Cantonese speakers’ self-expression. There are approximately one hundred utterance particles in Cantonese, outnumbering those in Mandarin. However, it has been suggested that the particles have no meaning, and there has not been much comprehensive semantic analysis of individual particles. Where utterance particles have previously been described, the descriptions do not fully and accurately convey their meanings. In this study, a range of naturally occurring examples of 'laa1' from the Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus will be examined, and an invariant meaning of 'laa1' proposed using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). This approach offers advantages over previous descriptions of 'laa1', and will allow a simple, precise and translatable definition to be constructed. It is found that 'laa1' indicates some shared knowledge between a speaker and an addressee. This study addresses the current gap in Cantonese linguistics, and contributes to the understanding of Cantonese utterance particles.