Clair Hill

TL;DR: The authors examined how the speakers of Manyjilyjarra and Umpila/Kuuku Ya'u linguistically categorize the landscape in which they live and found that complex and recurrent interests in material make-up extend beyond landscape feature terminology in both languages and reveal possible cultural priorities underlying the semantic patterns.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the underpinnings of this idea and discuss the successes and difficulties encountered while applying it in the Cape York Peninsula region, and found that informal approaches to both language worker training and language learning were, across the board, far more successful than more formal approaches (including one-on-one versions of master-apprentice schemes).

TL;DR: This article investigated why speakers of each language may rely on their preferred strategy in accordance with the different olfactory-related cultural practices and ideologies in the respective speaker communities and found that Umpila speakers have salient cultural models of country (i.e., the conceptualisation of land/seas/skies as a being with which they form a reciprocal relationship with interconnected rights and responsibilities) and resultingly, Country recognises "locals" from "strangers" according to their smell.