Publications
- Kidd, Evan, Birgit Hellwig, Rowena Garcia, Rebecca Defina, Lucinda Davidson & Shanley E.M. Allen. 2025. A comparative study of child-directed language across five cultures based on data from the Acquisition Sketch Project. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1–25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2025.2514825
- Defina, Rebecca, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Birgit Hellwig, Barbara F. Kelly & Evan Kidd. 2023. Sketch Acquisition Manual (SAM), Part I: The sketch corpus. Language Documentation and Conservation SP 28. 5–38.
- Defina, Rebecca, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Birgit Hellwig, Barbara F. Kelly & Evan Kidd. 2023. Sketch Acquisition Manual (SAM), Part II: The acquisition sketch. Language Documentation and Conservation SP 28. 39–86.
- Hellwig, Birgit, Rebecca Defina, Evan Kidd, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson & Barbara F. Kelly. 2021. Child language documentation: The sketch acquisition project. Language Documentation and Conservation SP 25. 29–58.
The Acquisition Sketch Project was supported by the joint German Academic Exchange Service and Universities Australia funding scheme (2019-2021, A guide for documenting language development in under-studied languages, grant no. 57446167).
Videos
Our YouTube Channel: @AcquisitionSketchProject
Hellwig, Birgit, Shanley E. M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson, Rebecca Defina, Barbara F. Kelly, Evan Kidd, Elena Lieven & Serge Sagna. 2021. Language acquisition in crosslinguistic context: How can we increase language coverage? Panel discussion at ILARA Institut des langues rares.
Hellwig, Birgit. 2021. Language Documentation, Acquisition and Socialization: Widening the Evidential Base. (Abralin ao vivo, online, 8.9.2021).
Blogs
- Blog entry in the IASCL Blog
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