Development of mechanisms for understanding language contact and cross-cultural communication

该项目将为跨语言研究语言如何相互影响和因接触而变化做出重大贡献。所揭示的观点将适用于澳大利亚的多文化和多语言移民情况，并有助于克服由于不同语言背景而造成的潜在沟通失误，增进我们对本地区和世界的了解(国家优先事项“保护澳大利亚”的目标之一)。该项目提供了记录和管理语言关系数据的技术进步，并将加强对以前不为人知的濒危语言的研究，从而有助于保护文化和语言的多样性。

The project will make a significant contribution to the cross-linguistic study of how languages affect each other, and change as a result of contact. The perspectives revealed will have application to the multicultural and multilingual immigrant situation in Australia, and contribute to overcoming potential miscommunications due to different language backgrounds, advancing our understanding of our region and the world (a goal of the National Priority 'Safeguarding Australia'). The project offers technological advances for recording and managing data on language relationships, and will enhance the study of previously unknown endangered languages, thus contributing to the preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity.