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LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS IN MELANESIA
LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS IN MELANESIA
Journal of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea ISSN: 0023-1959
LSPNG 2019 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
LSPNG 2019 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
LSPNG 2019 PROGRAM & BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
PAPERS PRESENTED
PPTs presented (in order of presentation):
SESSION II: Educating the young to meet PNG's needs
Teaching Comparative Phonics: a Course of Training for Elementary Teachers by Syd Gould
Exploring AO effect on academic achievement of PNG students by Olga Temple & Sakarepe Kamene (UPNG)
Does students' Early Language Education affect their grades in POMNATH? - Linguistic students (UPNG)
Graphemic choices in writing Papua New Guinean languages through the years - Ray Stegeman (SIL)
Translanguaging at higher education in Papua New Guinea: Progress or regress? - Lawrence Gerry (UOG)
SESSION III. Promoting Indigenous Literacy
Singsings and Storytelling: Digitizing Audio Recordings - Cristela Garcia-Spitz, UCSD USA
Counting and number in Huli: language adaptation and cognitive modification - Syd Gould (IRP AUS)
Issues in the Revision of the OUP Tok Pisin Dictionary - Craig Volker (JCU)
Traditional Motu Calendar - Peter Karua (UPNG)
SESSION IV. Special Panel Discussion: Meeting the Challenges
SESSION V. Language documentation & description
Pronominal Marking in Bumbita Arapesh: Duals, Trials & Quadrals - Saras (SIL)
Interesting features of Porome, an isolate language of Papua New Guinea - Robbie Petterson (SIL)
Versatile postpositions in Doromu-Koki: The case of rofu - Robert Bradshaw (JCU)
Making sense in discourse: Kewapi discourse structuring devices - Apoi Yarapea (UOT Lae)
THE WHEEL OF VITALITY: A participatory tool for measuring language vitality - North Cady (SIL)
Free pronouns in the Taeme Pronominal System - Philip Tama (UOG)
Language as Work: The Zia Perception of Language - Sakarepe Kamene (UPNG)
Preserving specialised jargons for positive values in indigenous languages of PNG - Lucy Wakei (UOG)
Yui concept of ‘giving’, a mainstay of Yui society - Ruth Kamasungua (UOG)
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