Nathan White ~ Postdoctoral Research Associate

Nathan has worked for nearly a decade with the Hmong diaspora community with a focus on researching the Hmong language, an under-documented, low-resource language with origins in Southeast Asia.

Teaching

• AN2009: Anthropological Linguistics (Level 2; CNS)

Interests

Research

• Linguistics
• Natural language processing
• Computational linguistics
• Language documentation
• Multilingualism

Experience

• 2021 to present - Postgraduate Research Associate, James Cook University (Cairns, Australia)
• 2017 to 2021 - Research Scholar (PhD candidate), James Cook University (Cairns, Australia)
• 2015 to 2016 - Adjunct Instructor, Fresno Pacific University (Fresno, United States)

Research Disciplines

• Linguistics (4704)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)

Memberships

• 2021 - Australian Linguistic Society
• 2020 - Association for Computational Linguistics

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Journal Articles

• White N (2021) Language and variety mixing in diasporic Hmong. Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica, 33 (1), pp. 157-180, DOI:10.26346/1120-2726-172.
• White N (in press) Grammaticalization and phonological reidentification in White Hmong. Studies in Language, , DOI:10.1075/sl.19052.whi.
• White N (2021) Prehistory of verbal markers in Hmong: what can we say? Studia Linguistica, 75 (2), pp. 345-374, DOI:10.1111/stul.12162.

Book Chapters

• Aikhenvald A, Dixon R and White N (2020) The essence of 'word'. In: Phonological word and grammatical word: a cross-linguistic typology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-24
• White N (2020) Word in Hmong. In: Phonological word and grammatical word: a cross-linguistic typology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., pp. 213-259
• White N (2019) Classifiers in Hmong. In: Genders and Classifiers: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 222-248

Other research outputs

• Aikhenvald A, Dixon R and White N (2020) Phonological word and grammatical word: a cross-linguistic typology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK