Human Language Dynamics (Bowern Lab)

This dataverse contains research materials, publications, corpora, datasets and other compilations related to research in Claire Bowern's Human Language Dynamics research group. We work broadly on language change and language documentation, especially (though not exclusively) with indigenous Australian communities.

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Tjupan GALC Elicitation
Sep 12, 2025
Fuchs-Lynch, Tomás, 2025, "Tjupan GALC Elicitation", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/KQFRCT, Yale Dataverse, V1
Audio files involving elicitation with Edie on Tjupan for GALC, July 11, 2025
Chirila lexical database
Feb 28, 2025 - Chirila Dataverse
Bowern, Claire, 2025, "Chirila lexical database", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/XHPJXB, Yale Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:GaG65F9XXodyy1nZEUUW7Q== [fileUNF]
Backup files for the Chirila database; filemaker (v18) and tsv files containing lexical records, language datasets and sources for about 950,000 items (this version). The language and source materials are open access; the underlying database is not currently available
Kullilli dictionary app files
Feb 22, 2025 - AusSounds
Bowern, Claire, 2025, "Kullilli dictionary app files", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/ATUMAB, Yale Dataverse, V1
sound files and underlying material for the Kullilli Ngulkana dictionary. Sound files are Claire Bowern pronouncing the headwords in order to make the dictionary headwords more accessible
Ramingining 2019 Yolngu fieldwork
Nov 18, 2024
Phillips, Joshua, 2024, "Ramingining 2019 Yolngu fieldwork", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/Z9EET2, Yale Dataverse, V1
Audio and transcriptions for recordings made at Raminingining in 2019, including Ganalbingu and Dhuwal
Ramingining 2018 fieldwork data
Nov 17, 2024
Phillips Joshua, 2024, "Ramingining 2018 fieldwork data", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/NMUIOI, Yale Dataverse, V1
Recordings of fieldwork conducted at Ramingining (Northern Territory, Australia) on Yolngu languages
NT fieldwork 2022
Nov 17, 2024
Phillips, Joshua, 2024, "NT fieldwork 2022", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/OALE9C, Yale Dataverse, V1
Recordings in Yolngu languages (Dhuwal & Yan-nhangu) related to semantics
Nils Holmer Fieldnotes and Recordings
Sep 29, 2024 - Chirila Dataverse
Holmer, Nils, 2024, "Nils Holmer Fieldnotes and Recordings", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/OTKJVA, Yale Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:ftdNozoxewNT19ljuiiFFw== [fileUNF]
This is a closed collection of materials collected by Nils Holmer with Aboriginal people in Queensland, Australia. Pending detailed metadata. I believe that this material is also now in an Australian digital archive but its value for descendants of the elders Holmer worked with means that it should be mirrored elsewhere too.
Glottolog 5.0 Voronoi polygons
Jul 4, 2024 - Chirila Dataverse
Bowern, Claire, 2024, "Glottolog 5.0 Voronoi polygons", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/ACFNCN, Yale Dataverse, V1
Point data from Glottolog.org converted to voronoi polygons over land
Gunnartpa supporting data
Jul 2, 2024
Bowern, Claire, 2024, "Gunnartpa supporting data", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/YULEXU, Yale Dataverse, V1
Sound files for JIPA sketch for Gunnartpa
Replication Data for: Phylogenetic signal in the lexicon: Are parental terms influenced by babytalk?
Jul 2, 2024 - Chirila Dataverse
Bowern, Claire, 2024, "Replication Data for: Phylogenetic signal in the lexicon: Are parental terms influenced by babytalk?", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/O9LBQ5, Yale Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:4ETL2AHIB25jaGdFylHHIg== [fileUNF]
It has long been known that parental terms are poor indicators of shared genetic relationship because of their tendency to be influenced by features of “baby-talk”. However, change and stability of parental terms within language families has not been closely studied. Here I evaluate the stability of ‘mother’ and ‘father’ across three large language...
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