Dr Myfany Turpin

Dr Myfany Turpin

'BA/Music University of Melbourne', Hons ANU, PhD University of Sydney

• language and music
• Aboriginal languages & song-poetry, phonology, semantics, lexicography, language documentation, language maintenance and education.
• I work with Arandic and Warlpiri people to document their traditional songs, identify performance opportunities and ways to maintain their traditional performance arts; collaborating with other linguists, Batchelor Institute (BIITE), Irrkerlantye and Barkly Arts. I also work with Kaytetye speakers to make resources in their language, including a Kaytetye to English Dictionary. Since 2002 I have worked with Neutral Junction school to develop a Kaytetye language and music program, providing teacher training and making resources such as songs, books, DVDs, posters and flashcards in collaboration with Batchelor Institute (BIITE) and MusicOutback Foundation.

• Singing the Dreaming: exploring the relationship between language and music in Arandic song−poetry. Funded by the ARC, 2010-2014 (DP1092887).
• Natural Language Generation for Aboriginal Languages [http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~madras/research/aborig-layman.html]. Funded by the ARC, 2010-2013 (Dras, Turpin, Rambow and Dale DP1095443). MacQuarie University.
• Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: towards an ecology of musical diversity [http://musecology.griffith.edu.au/]. Funded by the ARC, 2009-2013 (LP0989243). Queensland Conservatorium Griffith Universtity, Music Council of Australia, International Music Council and six partner universities.
• Willowra Yawulyu: Warlpiri women's ceremonies from Willowra. Funded by Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Program, Natural Resource Management Board NT Government, 2010 (Laughren & Turpin).
• Arandic language and Song Maintenance. Funded by Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records Program (Australian Government), 2010-2011 (Carew, Woods, Green and Turpin). Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education https://www.batchelor.edu.au/ .
• Understanding the Sounds of Kaytetye and how to teach them. Funded by the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies 2011-2012 G2011/7654 (Myfany Turpin, Katherine Demuth, Mark Harvey, Alison Ross). University of Queensland.

•  2010, with Jenny Green, Trading in terms: alternate registers and linguistic affiliation in Arandic languages. In Language and social identity in Indigenous communities, eds. Ilana Mushin, Brett Baker, Rod Gardner and Mark Harvey Pacific Linguistics, 323–347.
  
• 2010, with Tonya Stebbins, The language of song: some recent approaches in description and analysis. In The Language of Song: A Special Issue of Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol 2, 2009. Guest editors Myfany Turpin, Tonya Stebbins and Stephen Morey, 1–17.
• 2009 Review of Poetic meter and musical form in Tashlhiyt Berber songs by François Dell & Mohamed Elmedlaoui (Berber Studies 19). In Journal of Linguistics 45:1, 216–221.
• 2008, with Grace Koch, The language of Aboriginal songs. In Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans and Luisa Miceli (eds) Morphology and Language History. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benajamins, 167–183
• 2007a Artfully hidden: text and rhythm in a Central Australian Aboriginal song series. Musicology Australia, 29, 93-108.
• 2007b The poetics of Central Australian song. In A. Marett & L. Barwick (Eds.), Studies in Aboriginal Song: A Special Issue of Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol 2, 100-115. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
• 2005 ‘Form and meaning of Akwelye: a Kaytetye women's song series from Central Australia’. Phd thesis, Universty of Sydney, NSW.
• 2004, with Alison Ross, Awelye Akwelye: Kaytetye women's songs from Arnerre, Central Australia. Papulu Apparr-kari language and culture centre, Tennant Creek. Recordings by Grace, Koch, Linda Barwick and Myfany Turpin, commentary by Myfany Turpin and Alison Ross.
• 2004, with Alison Ross, Kaytetye Picture Dictionary. IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT.
• 2003 Growing Up Kaytetye. Stories by Tommy Kngwarraye Thompson. IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT.
• 2002 "Body parts in Kaytetye feeling expressions" in Wierzbicka A. and Enfield, N. (eds) The Body in Description of Emotions. Special Edition of Pragmatics and Cognition. 10:1/2, pp 271-341.
• 2001, with Jenny Green, "Common sense: Continuing the Comparative Tradition" in Simpson, Jane; David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin and Barry Alpher (eds.) Forty Years On. Ken Hale and Australian languages. Pacific Linguistics Series:Canberra, 89-111.
• 2000 A Learner's Guide to Kaytetye. IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT.

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