Dr Alan Libert
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science (Linguistics)
- Email:alan.libert@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 5117
Career Summary
Biography
Born in Los Angeles, grew up mainly in New York, where I attended the Bronx High School of Science. Completed B.A. at New York University, majoring in Greek and Latin, with minors in Linguistics and Classical Civilization. Completed Ph.D. in linguistics at McGill University in Montreal.
Research Expertise
Linguistics
Qualifications
- PhD, McGill University - Canada
- Master of Arts, New York University
- Bachelor of Arts, New York University
Keywords
- Syntax
- Phonetics
- Onomastics
- Case theory
- Turkic languages
- Artificial languages
- Latin and Greek linguistics
Languages
- French (Fluent)
Fields of Research
| Code | Description | Percentage |
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| 200499 | Linguistics not elsewhere classified | 100 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
| Title | Organisation / Department |
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| Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Academic appointment
| Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
|---|---|---|
| 1/01/2010 - | Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
| 1/01/2006 - | Membership - Journal of Universal Language | Journal of Universal Language Australia |
| 1/01/2002 - | Membership - Australian Journal of Linguistics | Australian Journal of Linguistics Australia |
Invitations
Participant
| Year | Title / Rationale |
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| 2004 |
"The case-marking properties of 'icin' and its cognates in other Turkic languages Organisation: Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Informatics Institute Description: "The case-marking properties of 'icin' and its cognates in other Turkic language |
| 2003 |
"Possibilities of Adpositional Case Assignment" Organisation: Syracuse University, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics |
| 1998 |
Finno-Ugric Peoples and Places in Culinary Terminology Organisation: Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada Description: Finno-Ugric Peoples and Places in Culinary Terminology |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (10 outputs)
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| 2017 |
Libert AR, Conjunctions and Other Parts of Speech, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 173 (2017) [A1]
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| 2013 | Newbrook M, Libert A, Curtain J, Strange Linguistics: A skeptical linguist looks at non-mainstream ideas about language, Lincom Europa, Munich, 388 (2013) [A2] | |||||||
| 2013 |
Libert AR, Adpositions and Other Parts of Speech, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 145 (2013) [A1]
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| 2011 |
Libert AR, Moskovsky CG, Aspects of the Grammar and Lexica of Artificial Languages, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 180 (2011) [A1]
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| 2009 |
Moskovsky CG, Libert AR, Essays on Natural and Artificial Languages, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 188 (2009) [A1]
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| 2008 | Libert AR, Daughters of Esperanto, LINCOM Europa, Munich, Germany, 178 (2008) [A1] | |||||||
| 2006 | Libert AR, Ambipositions, LINCOM Europa, Munich, Germany, 100 (2006) [A1] | |||||||
| 2004 | Libert AR, Artificial Descendants of Latin, Lincom Europa, Munich (2004) [A1] | |||||||
| 2003 | Libert AR, Mixed Artificial Languages, Lincom Europa, Munich, 106 (2003) [A1] | |||||||
| 2000 | Libert AR, A Priori Artificial Languages, Lincom Europa, Munich, 139 (2000) [A1] | |||||||
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Chapter (8 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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| 2017 |
Libert AR, 'On death in artificial languages', Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology 233-257 (2017) © 2017, Springer International Publishing AG. This chapter will treat some pragmatic issues relating to how death is reported and discussed in artificial languages such as Esperan... [more] © 2017, Springer International Publishing AG. This chapter will treat some pragmatic issues relating to how death is reported and discussed in artificial languages such as Esperanto, and how deaths of people in artificial language movements are announced. Many, if not all, natural languages have euphemisms for dying; this is true of some (but perhaps not all) artificial languages. I will present some euphemisms in artificial languages. Very few books for learning artificial languages give instructions on condolences; I will look at the limited material on this. I will then examine several types of texts (or pragmemes) relating to death, including funerals, obituaries, and epitaphs. The most space will be given to obituaries, as they seem to be the most commonly occurring of these text types in artificial languages. At least some such obituaries are different from the obituaries that occur in ordinary natural language sources such as newspapers in that details about the family of the deceased are not given.
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| 2016 | Libert AR, 'Adpositions, Deixis, and Anti-Deixis', Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 489-516 (2016) [B1] | ||||
| 2016 | Libert AR, 'The Pragmatics of Indirect Discourse in Artificial Languages', Indirect Reports and Pragmatics, Springer, Cham, Swizerland 621-630 (2016) [B1] | ||||
| 2016 | Libert AR, 'On Pragmemes in Artificial Languages', Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use, Springer, Cham, Switzerland 375-389 (2016) [B1] | ||||
| 2013 |
Libert AR, 'What can Pragmaticists Learn from Studying Artificial Languages?', Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics, Springer, Cham 397-432 (2013) [B1]
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| 2010 | Libert AR, 'Comparing comparatives in artificial languages', Artificial Languages: Themes in Linguistics and Philosophy, GRIN Verlag, Munich 109-115 (2010) [B2] | ||||
| 2008 | Libert AR, 'Case marking of Turkic adpositional objects', Adpositions: Pragmatic, Semantic and Syntactic Perspectives, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam 229-255 (2008) [B1] | ||||
| 2002 | Libert AR, 'On the Range and Variety of Cases Assigned by Adpositions', Language Universals and Variation, Praeger, USA 131-154 (2002) [B1] | ||||
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Journal article (40 outputs)
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| 2017 |
Libert AR, Moskovsky C, 'Terms for Bodies of Water in A Posteriori and Mixed Artificial Languages', Journal of Universal Language, 16 27-62 (2017) [C1]
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| 2016 |
Libert AR, 'Adpositions and presuppositions', SPRINGERPLUS, 5 (2016) [C1]
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| 2015 |
Moskovsky C, Jiang G, Libert A, Fagan S, 'Bottom-up or top-down: English as a foreign language vocabulary instruction for Chinese university students', TESOL Quarterly, 49 256-277 (2015) [C1]
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| 2014 |
Libert AR, 'New Finnish Grammar', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, 34 292-293 (2014) [C3]
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| 2014 |
Libert AR, 'Writing for University', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, 34 624-625 (2014) [C3]
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| 2013 |
Libert AR, 'Foreign Languages: What They Don't Often Tell You, 3rd edition', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, 33 236-238 (2013) [C3]
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| 2013 |
Libert AR, 'Australian Bird Names: A Complete Guide', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, 33 519-520 (2013) [C3]
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| 2013 | Libert AR, 'The Representation of Uralic Languages in Artificial International Auxiliary Languages', Journal of Universal Language, 14 117-142 (2013) [C1] | ||||||||||
| 2012 | Libert AR, 'Adpositions [Book review]', Studies in Language, 36 208-214 (2012) [C3] | ||||||||||
| 2012 | Libert AR, ''Australian LOTE: Achieving broad and deep competence in languages at school' and 'Talking to the whole wide world: Integrated LOTE and intercultural studies for Australian primary schools' [Book review]', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 32 198-201 (2012) [C3] | ||||||||||
| 2012 | Libert AR, 'On the morphological status of Için and its Cognates in some other Turkic languages', Dilbilim Arastirmalari, 1 81-101 (2012) [C1] | ||||||||||
| 2012 | Libert AR, 'The representation of Korean and other Altaic languages in artificial international auxiliary languages', Journal of Universal Language, 13 125-167 (2012) [C1] | ||||||||||
| 2011 | Libert AR, 'Free linguistics conference', Philologia, 149-150 (2011) [C3] | ||||||||||
| 2009 |
Libert AR, 'Language, frogs and savants', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 29 403-405 (2009) [C3]
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| 2008 |
Libert AR, 'A glossary of semantics and pragmatics', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 28 88-90 (2008) [C3]
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| 2008 |
Libert AR, 'Fuzziness and Japanese grammar: A prototype analysis', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 28 95-97 (2008) [C3]
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| 2006 |
Moskovsky CG, Libert AR, 'Questions in Natural and Artificial Languages', Journal of Universal Language, 7 65-120 (2006) [C1]
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| 2005 | Libert AR, 'The noun in Turkish: Its argument structure and the compounding straitjacket.', WORD-JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION, 56 282-284 (2005) | ||||||||||
| 2004 |
Moskovsky CG, Libert AR, 'Possibilities for Passives in Natural and Artificial Languages', Journal of Universal Language, 5 101-149 (2004) [C1]
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| 2003 |
Libert AR, Moskovsky CG, 'A Survey of Relative Pronouns and Their Uses in Natural and Artificial Languages', Journal of Universal Language, 4 61-116 (2003) [C1]
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| 2002 | Libert AR, 'Feature Distribution in Swedish Noun Phrases', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 22 277-280 (2002) [C3] | ||||||||||
| 2002 |
Libert AR, Moskovsky CG, 'On the Form and Function of Reflexives in Artificial Languages', Journal of Universal Language, 3 36 (2002) [C1]
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| 2001 | Libert AR, 'Review of C. W. Kreidler, Introducing English Semantics (Routledge, 1998)', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 21.2 276-281 (2001) [C3] | ||||||||||
| 2000 | Libert AR, 'Libert, A.R. Book Review: Restrictiveness in Case Theory, by Henry Smith (1996)', Canadian Journal of Linguistics - Revue Canadienne de Linguistique, 44(1) 88-90 (2000) [C3] | ||||||||||
| 1999 | Libert AR, 'Restrictiveness in case theory.', CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS-REVUE CANADIENNE DE LINGUISTIQUE, 44 88-90 (1999) | ||||||||||
| 1999 | Libert AR, 'A.R. Libert, Book Review: A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics by David Crystal', Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 19, No. 1 118-120 (1999) [C3] | ||||||||||
| 1999 | Libert AR, 'A.R. Libert Book Review: The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences', Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 19, No. 2 258-260 (1999) [C3] | ||||||||||
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Review (2 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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| 2011 | Libert AR, 'Artificial languages', The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (2011) [D2] | ||
| 2011 | Libert AR, 'Word classes (Parts of speech)', The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (2011) [D2] |
Conference (8 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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| 2012 | Libert AR, 'On conversational valence and the definition of interjections', Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference, Canberra (2012) [E1] | ||
| 2011 | Libert AR, 'International auxiliary languages in Korea: Reception and creation', 7th KSAA Biennial Conference, Sydney, NSW (2011) [E2] | ||
| 2007 | Libert AR, 'A principles and parameters account of the case marking properties of the Turkish postposition Icin and its cognates in other Turkish languages', Proceedings of WAFL 2: Workshop on Altaic Formal Languages (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics), Istanbul (2007) [E1] | ||
| 1998 | Libert AR, 'A survey of nominative case assignment by adpositions', ALS98 Papers in Proceedings, Brisbane (1998) [E1] | ||
| 1998 | Libert AR, 'Cross-linguistic patterns in secondary case marking', Fusac '93-'95 Acefo: Proceedings of the Ninth & Tenth Meetings of the Finno-Ugric Studies Assoc of Canada, 1995 Montreal, Canada (1998) [E1] | ||
| 1998 | Libert AR, 'Syntactic tests for case in Hungarian', Fusac '93-'95 Acefo: Proceedings of the Ninth and Tenth Meetings of the Finno-Ugric Studies Assoc of Canada, 1993 Ottawa, Canada (1998) [E1] | ||
| 1998 | Libert AR, 'The use of aphasiological data as evidence for the linguistic reality of different gentive functions', Proceedings of the Fifth National Aphasiology Symposium of Australia, Newcastle, NSW (1998) [E1] | ||
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Grants and Funding
Summary
| Number of grants | 12 |
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| Total funding | $25,991 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20161 grants / $2,000
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Vienna, Austria, 21-27 July 2016$2,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
| Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
|---|---|
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2016 |
| Funding Finish | 2016 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | N |
20142 grants / $7,500
IRU Thailand Research Mobility Program$5,000
Funding body: Department of Education
| Funding body | Department of Education |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | IRU Thailand Researcher Mobility Program |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2014 |
| Funding Finish | 2014 |
| GNo | G1401088 |
| Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - Commonwealth |
| Category | 2OPC |
| UON | Y |
Toponyms and Anthroponyms in Recipes from North and South Carolina$2,500
Funding body: Wake Forest University
| Funding body | Wake Forest University |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | Z Smith Reynolds Library Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2014 |
| Funding Finish | 2014 |
| GNo | G1300966 |
| Type Of Funding | International - Competitive |
| Category | 3IFA |
| UON | Y |
20132 grants / $2,015
Culinary Anthroponyms and Toponyms as Indicators of Virginian Identity and Historical Consciousness$1,040
Funding body: Virginia Historical Society
| Funding body | Virginia Historical Society |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | Research Fellowship |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2013 |
| Funding Finish | 2013 |
| GNo | G1300045 |
| Type Of Funding | International - Competitive |
| Category | 3IFA |
| UON | Y |
Kentucky Attitudes and Identity as Revealed through Anthroponyms and Toponyms in Food Names$975
Funding body: Kentucky Historical Society
| Funding body | Kentucky Historical Society |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | Scholarly Research Fellowship |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2013 |
| Funding Finish | 2013 |
| GNo | G1201097 |
| Type Of Funding | International - Competitive |
| Category | 3IFA |
| UON | Y |
20122 grants / $3,000
The 16th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 18- 21 September 2012$1,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
| Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2012 |
| Funding Finish | 2012 |
| GNo | G1200754 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
Toponyms and Anthroponyms in Michigan’s Food$1,500
Funding body: Bentley Historical Library
| Funding body | Bentley Historical Library |
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| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | Bordin-Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2012 |
| Funding Finish | 2012 |
| GNo | G1200934 |
| Type Of Funding | International - Competitive |
| Category | 3IFA |
| UON | Y |
20081 grants / $2,500
2008 National Popular Culture Association Conference, San Francisco, California USA, 19/3/2008 - 22/3/2008$2,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2008 |
| Funding Finish | 2008 |
| GNo | G0188431 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
20071 grants / $2,426
European Society for Central Asian Studies Tenth Conference on Central Asia: Sharing Experiences and Prospects, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 12/9/207 - 15/9/2007$2,426
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2007 |
| Funding Finish | 2007 |
| GNo | G0187934 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
20041 grants / $1,255
Second Workshop in Altaic Formal Linguistics, 11-13 October 2004$1,255
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2004 |
| Funding Finish | 2004 |
| GNo | G0184594 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
19971 grants / $295
1997 Speech Pathology Australia Conference, Canberra, 10-14 March 1997$295
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | Travel Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 1997 |
| Funding Finish | 1997 |
| GNo | G0179502 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
19951 grants / $5,000
The loss of Lexical Case Marking in the Late and Byzantine Greek.$5,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Alan Libert |
| Scheme | New Staff Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 1995 |
| Funding Finish | 1995 |
| GNo | G0175972 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Completed10
Current5
Total current UON EFTSL
Masters0.15
PhD1.2
Current Supervision
| Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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| 2017 | PhD | Naming Practices, Identity, Power and Communication in Bindura, Zimbabwe | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2017 | Masters | Oral Participation in English Classes: Gender-Based Differences in Learner Motivation | M Philosophy (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2017 | PhD | The Role of Affective Factors on Classroom Interaction and Engagement, and on EFL Achievement | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2016 | PhD | The Relationship between Metalinguistic Awareness and Cognitive Capacity in Advanced Bilinguals | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2016 | PhD | The phonology of Kaytetye | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Past Supervision
| Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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| 2017 | PhD | Judas Iscariot, Betrayal and Idolatry | PhD (Religious Studies), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2016 | PhD | The Influence of High Power Distance in Student-Teacher Relationships and Its Effects on Reading Proficiency: A Case Study of Saudi Students in EFL Classrooms at Albaha University in Saudi Arabia | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2015 | PhD | Topics in the Grammar of Zahrani Spoken Arabic | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2015 | PhD | Place Oppositions in English Coronal Obstruents: An Ultrasound Study | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2014 | PhD | EFL/ESL Vocabulary Teaching Strategies: The Effects of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches on the Acquisition of EFL/ESL Vocabulary by Chinese University Students | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2013 | PhD | Word Structure in Kisa | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2011 | PhD | The Impact of Nominal Anglicisms on the Morphology of Modern Spoken German | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2009 | PhD | Naturalism, Indeterminacy, Analogy, Connectionism and Linguistic Theory: A Philosophy of Psychobiolinguistics | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2007 | PhD | Natural Semantics: A Methodological Inquiry into the Philosophy of Language, Comprising an Examination of the Possibility of a Theory of Grammatical Semantics, and the Development of a Translation Theory Based upon a Reconciliation between Tarski's Truth Theory and Grammatical Semantics or How Meanings are Made in Nat | PhD (Philosophy), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
| 2005 | PhD | Syllabic Consonants in English | PhD (Linguistics), Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Dr Alan Libert
Position
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Faculty of Education and Arts
Focus area
Linguistics
Contact Details
| alan.libert@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Phone | (02) 4921 5117 |
| Fax | (02) 4921 7170 |
Office
| Room | MC 106 |
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| Building | McMullin Building |
| Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |
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