Below, you can find a list of publications, talks and other activities based on the research of our project.

Publications

• Frye, Henrike, Shirley Balar & Aung Si. 2022. "Experiences with remote linguistic-ethnobiological fieldwork on bird names in the Qaqet language of Papua New Guinea." Language Documentation & Conservation 16. 341-363.
• Frye, Henrike. 2022. Child-directed Speech in Qaqet: A Language of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Canberra: ANU Press.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2022. A language documentation perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language 42.6. 770–773.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2022. Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet. In Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, (Typological Studies in Language 134), 341–368. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2022. Language acquisition and language socialization. In Svenja Völkel & Nico Nassenstein (eds.), Approaches to Language and Culture, 33–52. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Hellwig, Birgit & Dagmar Jung. 2022. Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corpora. In Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective (Typological Studies in Language 134), 397–434. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Tabain, Marija, Marc Garellek, Birgit Hellwig, Adele Gregory & Richard Beare. 2022. Voicing in Qaqet: Prenasalization and language contact. Journal of Phonetics 91. 101138.
• Tabain, Marija & Birgit Hellwig. 2022. Qaqet. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 1-22.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2021. Children’s narratives in Papua New Guinea: A case study of Qaqet. In Christiane Bongartz & Jacopo Torregrossa (eds.), What’s in a narrative? Variation in storytelling at the interface between language and literacy, 99–120. Bern: Peter Lang.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2021. Initial observations on complex predicates in Qaqet children's language. First Language 41.4. 406-429.
• Hellwig, Birgit, Rebecca Defina, Evan Kidd, Shanley E.M. Allen, Lucinda Davidson & Barbara F. Kelly. 2021. Child language documentation: The sketch acquisition project. Language Documentation and Conservation SP 25. 29–58.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2020. Child language documentation: A pilot project in Papua New Guinea. Language Documentation & Conservation SP 21. 23–42.
• Hellwig, Birgit & Dagmar Jung. 2020. Child-directed language – and how it informs the documentation and description of the adult language. Language Documentation & Conservation 14. 188–214.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2019. A grammar of Qaqet. (Mouton Grammar Library, 79). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2019. Linguistic diversity, language documentation and psycholinguistics: The role of stimuli. Language Documentation and Conservation SP 16. 5-30.
• Seyfeddinipur, Mandana et al. [incl. Birgit Hellwig]. 2019. Public access to research data in language documentation: Challenges and possible strategies. Language Documentation & Conservation 13. 545-563.

Theses

• Frings, Jonas. 2022. The distribution and semantics of spatial prepositions in Qaqet, Papua New Guinea. MA Thesis, University of Cologne.
• Hausdorf, Marc. 2022. Establishing sound correspondences between the Baining languages: Towards a reconstruction of Proto-Baining. MA Thesis, University of Cologne.
• Reetz, Steffen. 2022. Code-switching among Qaqet-speaking adults in Kamanakam, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. PhD Thesis, University of Cologne.
• Frye, Henrike. 2019. Child-directed speech in Qaqet: A language of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. PhD Thesis, University of Cologne.
• Obersteiner, Katrin. 2019. Nominal classification in Kairak – A comparison with Mali, Qaqet and Ura. MA Thesis, University of Cologne.

Data collections

• Qaqet Child Language Corpus: Longitudinal Study.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2013. "Language socialisation and the transmission of Qaqet Baining (Papua New Guinea): Towards a documentation project.", Endangered Languages Archive.

Workshops

• 1^st Workshop on the acquisition of lesser-documented languages (University of Cologne, 25.-26.1.2019).
• 2^nd Workshop on the acquisition of lesser-documented languages (University of Melbourne, 9.8.2019).

Selected Talks

• Hausdorf, Marc. 2023. Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Baining. Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics II (Paris, 15.-17.2.2023).
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2021. Language Documentation, Acquisition and Socialization: Widening the Evidential Base. (Abralin ao vivo, online, 8.9.2021).
• Defina, Rebecca et al. [incl. Birgit Hellwig]. 2021. Can we describe non-WEIRD language development with only 5 hours? Symposium organized at the Conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (Online, 15.-23.7.2021).
• Hellwig, Birgit et al. 2021. Language acquisition in crosslinguistic context: How can we increase language coverage? (Panel discussion organised by Birgit Hellwig in collaboration with ILARA (Institut des langues rares), online, 6.5.2021).
• Frye, Henrike. 2020. Child-directed speech in Qaqet: A multimethod approach. 12^th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (Digital event run from the University of Oslo, 18.-20.6.2020).
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2020. Language documentation, acquisition and socialization: The sketch acquisition manual. 12^th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (Digital event run from the University of Oslo, 18.-20.6.2020). Keynote speaker.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2020. Child language documentation: The sketch acquisition project. Workshop Corpus-based typology: spoken language from a cross-linguistic perspective, Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (Hamburg, 4.-5.3.2020).
• Eisenbeiß, Sonja. 2019. Ansprüche und Lösungsansätze für die Dokumentation der Sprachen in Papua Neu Guinea. Exchange of experiences, Fachreferate der Geisteswissenschaften, Bonn.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2019. Researching language acquisition and socialization in Papuan languages. Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics (Paris, 10.‐11.12.2019). Keynote speaker.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2019. Child language documentation and the adult language. 3. Vielfaltslinguistik (Universität zu Köln, 28.-29.3.2019). Keynote speaker.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2019. Sprachdokumentation und Spracherwerb: Die Qaqet in Papua-Neuguinea. Inaugural lecture at the University of Cologne.
• Eisenbeiß, Sonja. 2018. Production Methods for Young Children. Invited talk at the University of Konstanz.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2018. Child language documentation: perspectives from language documentation, language acquisition and language socialization. Workshop Cross-disciplinary perspectives on low-resource language varieties, Saarbrücken.
• Eisenbeiß, Sonja. 2017. Young children’s productions in naturalistic settings - targeted games, broad-spectrum games, and a toolkit for research and clinical purposes. International Exploratory Workshop: Detecting Child Language Disorders: New Assessment Measures and Methods for Early Learners. Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• Dawuda, Carmen. 2016. Child language documentation: Qaqet Baining. Invited talk at the research centre SeDYL, Paris.
• Eisenbeiß, Sonja. 2016. Taking Experimental Linguistics to the Field - Challenges, Methods, and Resources. Invited talk at the University of Mainz.

Teaching (University of Cologne)

• "Theorien des Erstspracherwerbs", course taught by Birgit Hellwig, winter term 2022/23 and summer term 2023.
• "Spracherwerb aus typologischer Perspektive", course taught by Birgit Hellwig, summer term 2021.
• "Languages and their environment", course taught by Henrike Frye and Aung Si, winter term 2020/21.
• "Lernumgebungen: Soziale, kulturelle und mediale Kontexte des Lernens", lecture series organized by Benjamin Beil, Birgit Hellwig, Melanie Schippling and Hanns Christian Schmid, winter term 2020/21.
• "Sprach- und kulturvergleichende Studien zum kindlichen Spracherwerb", course taught by Sonja Eisenbeiß, winter term 2019/20.
• "Qaqet (East-Papuan)", course taught by Birgit Hellwig, summer terms 2019 and 2023.
• "Worterwerb: Wie lernen wir Wörter?", course taught by Sonja Eisenbeiß, summer term 2019.
• "Multilingualismus: Typen, Trends und Theorien", course taught by Sonja Eisenbeiß, winter term 2018/19.
• "Narrative Entwicklung", course taught by Birgit Hellwig, summer term 2018.
• "Child-directed speech", course taught by Birgit Hellwig, winter term 2017/18.
• "Psycholinguistik in der Feldforschung", course taught by Sonja Eisenbeiß, summer term 2017.

Press & public outreach

• Article about the Qaqet project: "Wie lernen Kinder sprechen? Die Linguistin Birgit Hellwig erforscht den Spracherwerb von Kleinkindern – vor allem an Qaqet, einer bedrohten Sprache Papua-Neuguineas." (Author: Mareike Knoke, 2020, Volkswagen Foundation)
• Article about the Qaqet project: "How do children learn to speak? Language research and documentation in Papua New Guinea" (explore brochure of the Volkswagen Foundation)
• Article about linguistic fieldwork, including the Qaqet project: "Trommeln statt WhatsApp im Amazonasdschungel" (Author: Andreas Beckmann, 2018, Deutschlandfunk)
• Frye, Henrike. 2018. "Das Raunsepna (PNG) Patenschaftprojekt." Presentation during the General Assembly of the Society for Endangered Languages.
• Frye, Henrike. 2018. "Talking to children in Papua-New Guinea." Presentation at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
• Hellwig, Birgit. 2018. "Die Sprache Qaqet Baining mit den Augen der Kinder gesehen (Neubritannien, Papua Neuguinea)." Salon Sophie Charlotte, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
• Qaqet (http://www.lastwhispers.org/qaqet) contribution to the Last Whispers (http://www.lastwhispers.org/#mission) project by sound artist Lena Herzog.
• The Experimental Field Linguistics resource site for fieldworking linguists who want to do experiments – and for psycholinguists who want to go beyond the lab: https://experimentalfieldlinguistics.wordpress.com/
• The Child-Directed Speech resource site for research on child-directed speech, child language acquisition, and linguistic development in different populations: https://childdirectedspeech.wordpress.com/