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Iwaidja

Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Sasse

Hans-Juergen Sasse Linguist, Institut für Linguistik, Universität
zu Köln (Germany)

Project Co-coordinator.

Associate Professor Nick Evans

Nick Evans Reader in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Project Co-ordinator, an anthropological linguist specializing in Australian Aboriginal languages.

Dr Linda Barwick

Linda Barwick Honorary Fellow, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Music, University of Sydney (Australia)

Director of PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures)

Musicologist who has undertaken fieldwork in Australia, Italy and the
Philippines. Within the project, she is responsible for documentation
and analysis of songs and music in Iwaidja and associated languages.

Bruce Birch

Bruce Birch Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics and
Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Principal Field Linguist. He is completing a doctoral thesis on aspects
of prosodic structure in Iwaidja, and has been living and collecting data
for the DoBeS Project in Minjilang, Croker Island, since July 2003.

Dr Murray Garde

Murray Garde Consultant linguist/anthropologist, Jabiru, Northern
Territory.

Linguistic anthropologist, resident of western Arnhem Land for the past
15 years is working with Iwaidja speakers on topics relating to social
organisation and land tenure.

Joy Williams

Joy Williams Teacher, Mamaruni School, Minjilang, Croker Island
Speaker of Iwaidja, Kunwinjku, Maung, and English.

She can understand
Marrgu well. She provides primary data, and is a co-transcriber and translator
for the project. She also sources other appropriate native speaker consultants
and assists with the organization of field trips.

Janet Fletcher

Janet Fletcher Janet Fletcher is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics
and Applied Linguistics. She is a specialist in experimental phonetics
with a particular focus on the interaction between prosody and
segmental articulation.