Dr Mary Laughren    Honorary Research Consultant

	Biography

Dr Mary Laughren’s research interests include syntax semantics interface, lexicography, language in education, and Australian Aboriginal languages.

Her current research interests include the documentation of Wanyi language (southern Gulf of Carpentaria), and Warlpiri syntax and lexicon; phonetic correlates of Warlpiri phonological properties (in conjunction with John Ingram and Christina Pentland); and reconstructing prehistoric relationships between Nyumpin-Yapa languages and languages of the western and southern Gulf of Carpentaria in collaboration with Patrick McConnell, Rob Pensalfini, and Gavan Breen.

She is the author of:

• Articles on African and Australian languages.

Compiler of:

• Warlpiri-English encyclopaedic dictionary.

Co-editor of:

• Forty Years On: Ken Hale and Australian Languages, Pacific Linguistics. ANU Canberra, 2001.

	Links
	School of English, Media Studies and Art History home page, Mary Laughren's home page

	Keywords
	Social Sciences: Linguistics/Philology, Social Sciences: Semantics, Social Sciences: Syntax, Social Sciences: Phonology