Landscape, language and culture in Indigenous Australia.

该项目旨在确定文化和社会多样性如何与景观相互作用，在讲澳大利亚土著语言的人的头脑和语法中表现物理空间。该项目将在全澳大利亚范围内对与景观相关的土著空间描述进行第一次调查，并对社区内个人空间行为的多样性进行第一次大规模调查。这一发现有望为关于风景在语言中的形成作用的关键辩论提供信息，并促进我们对人类空间认知的了解。它将收集六种濒危语言的全新实验和自然数据，对维护土著语言和文化大有裨益。

This project aims to determine how culture and social diversity interact with landscape in representing physical space in the minds and grammars of speakers of Australian Indigenous languages. The project will conduct the first Australia-wide survey of Indigenous spatial description correlated with landscape, and the first large-scale investigation of diversity in spatial behaviour among individuals within communities. The findings are expected to inform crucial debates on the formative role of landscape in language, and advance our knowledge of human spatial cognition. It will collect completely new experimental and natural data in six endangered languages, with significant benefits for the maintenance of Indigenous languages and cultures.