Carmel O'Shannessy

Department of Linguistics University of Michigan

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Selected publications 2009 O'Shannessy, Carmel. Language variation and change in a north Australian indigenous community. In James N. Stanford and Dennis R. Preston (eds) Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins pp419-439 2009 Meakins, Felicity and Carmel O'Shannessy. Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages. In McGregor, W and J.C. Verstraete (eds) Special Issue of Lingua. 2008 O'Shannessy, Carmel. Children's production of their heritage language and a new mixed language. In Simpson, Jane and Gillian Wigglesworth (eds) Children's Language and Multilingualism. London, New York: Continuum International Press . 2005 O'Shannessy, Carmel. Light Warlpiri - a new language Australian Journal of Linguistics 25 (1) 31-57 2005 Meakins, Felicity and Carmel O'Shannessy. Possessing variation: age and inalienability related variables in the possessive constructions of two Australian mixed languages. In Simon Musgrave (ed) Monash University Linguistics Papers: Language contact, hybrids and new varieties: emergent possessive constructions. Department of Linguistics, Monash University, Australia Vol 4, No 2 43-63 Forthcoming O'Shannessy, Carmel. Young Children's Social Meaning-Making in a New Mixed Language. In Eickelkamp Ute and Pauline Fietz (eds) Growing Up in Central Australia - Indigenous Experiences of Childhood, Youth and Transformations. LIT-Verlag, Germany Presentations Invited talks 2009 Bilingualism and creativity: new structures. Invited speaker at Mellon workshop on Bilingualism and Mind, Syracuse University, October 7-8 2008 "Can Child Directed Speech lead to a new language?" Colloquium speaker at Syracuse University, Linguistics Department, Dec 5 2008 Language contact and acquisition: Learning a new mixed language and Walpiri. Keynote address at 16th annual Symposium about Language and Society - Austin, University of Texas Austin, April 11-13 2008 Language contact and acquisition in northern Australia. Invited colloquium speaker. Department of Linguistics, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, February 5. 2007 Language change and variation in northern Australia: a new mixed language emerges. Colloquium. University of Michigan. February 1 2006 Testing the productive skills of Indigenous children in a linguistically complex community: some methodological issues. 28th Annual Language Testing Research Colloquium. University of Melbourne, June 28 2006 Language contact in northern Australia - a new mixed language arises. Nijmegen Bilingualism Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, April 11 2006 O'Shannessy, Carmel Language contact in northern Australia - a new mixed language arises. University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, February 9 2006 [Invited poster] Which types of code-switching can lead to new mixed languages? Conference: Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to code-switching and language switching. Hosted by Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands May 22 Conference papers 2007 A new mixed language arises in northern Australia. Michigan Linguistics Society. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. November 10. 2007 A new mixed language arises in northern Australia. Language contact and morphosyntactic variation and change workshop at Association for Linguistic Typology Conference. Paris, Research Ministry. September 20-24 2007 The emergence of a new mixed language in northern Australia and children's bilingual acquisition. Central Australian Linguistic Circle, Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs, April 19 2007 McConvell, Patrick and Carmel O'Shannessy Interaction of ethnographic and other methods in investigating language change among Australian indigenous children Linguistic Ethnography Seminar: Linguistic ethnographies of children and youth. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain) 14 April 2006 The emergence of a new mixed language in northern Australia and children's bilingual acquisition. Top End Linguistic Circle, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Darwin, NT, August 4 2006 O'Shannessy, Carmel and F. Meakins. Comprehending Ergative Marking and Word Order in Light Warlpiri and Gurindji Kriol. Workshop on contact languages, Australian languages workshop, Pearl Beach, Australia, March 17 2005 O'Shannessy, Carmel and Felicity Meakins. The 4-M Model and two Mixed Languages in Australia. Language Contact and Acquisition Workshop. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Aug 1-5. 2005 [poster] Language separation and children's simultaneous acquisition of two optional ergative languages. 10th International Congress for the study of Child Language, Berlin, July 25-29 2005 McConvell, P, F. Meakins, and C. O'Shannessy. Functional competition between elements from different source languages in two Mixed Languages in Australia. Conference: Creole language structure: between substrates and superstrates. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 3-5 June 2005 McConvell, P, F. Meakins, and C. O'Shannessy. Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Project (ACLA). Invited talk presented to Psychology and Acquisition group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 1 June 2005 Acquisition of word order and case marking in a multilingual context. Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, April 18, 2005 2004 In an environment with variable multilingual input, what kinds of regularity are there? Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 26. 2004 Disbray, S, McConvell, P, Meakins, F, Moses, K, O'Shannessy, C, Simpson, J, Wigglesworth, G. What languages are Aboriginal children learning? ACLA Project, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Islander Studies Annual Conference, Canberra, 18 October 2004 McConvell, Patrick, Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy. Gurindji Kriol and Light Warlpiri. International Working Symposium: Language contact, hybrids and new varieties: Emergent possessive constructions, Monash University, Melbourne 3-4 September 2004 Meakins, F and C. O'Shannessy. 2004 Shifting Functions of Ergative Case-marking in Light Warlpiri and Gurindji Kriol. Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference, University of Sydney, 13-15 July 2003 How Lajamanu children learn Warlpiri and Lajamanu Mixed Speech, Central Australian Language Acquisition project workshop, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education, Alice Springs, Australia, July 1 2003 Initial impressions of a newly emerging language variety in Central Australia, Linguistics Workshop, University of Osnabruck, Germany, April 26 2002 Children's speech in Lajamanu, University of Sydney Linguistics Seminars, University of Sydney, Australia (May 31) 2002 Children's speech in Lajamanu, Australian Linguistic Institute (Indigenous Languages Program), MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia (July 15) 2001 Lajamanu Children's Speech, Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, September 2001 O'Shannessy, Carmel and White, Gracie. Lajamanu Children's Speech, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Canberra, November