By Dr Clair Hill

Books

Hill C, 2025, Person Reference and interaction in Umpila and Kuuku Ya'u storytelling, John Benjamins, Amsterdam

Hill C; Thompson D, 2023, Looking inside Kuuku Ya’u and Umpila: A Grammar Guide, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C; Turk A, 2016, Manyjilyjarra – English dictionary of Landscape Terms, Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa, Perth

Hill C; Thompson D, 2013, Kuuku Ya’u and Umpila Wordlist, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C; Thompson D, 2013, Looking inside Kuuku Ya’u and Umpila: A Grammar Guide, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C; Thompson D, 2012, Ngampula puuntikuma ngaachi kuntamangka: Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Language Learners Guide Book 8, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Lockhart River

Hill C; Thompson D, 2012, Ngana tika ma’upina: Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Language Learners Guide Book 7, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C; Thompson D, 2012, Ngana tha’amana, ngana miinthamana. Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Language Learners Guide Book 6, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C; Thompson D, 2012, Ngana waathangka Cityku: Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Language Learners Guide Book 5, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C; Thompson D, 2012, Ngana waathangka ngaachiku. Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Language Learners Guide Book 4, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C; Thompson D, 2012, Ngana waathangka Schoolku: Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Language Learners Guide Book 3, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C; Thompson D, 2011, Ngana waathangka aa'inyaku: Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Language Learners Guide Book 2, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C; Thompson D, 2011, Ngana waathangka Storeku. Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Language Learners Guide Book 1., Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C, 2004, Ku’unchikamu: Kuuku Ngampulungku, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Book Chapters

Hill C, 2025, 'An example of rich language documentation: A return to the Old Mission', in O'Shannessy C; Grey J; Angelo D (ed.), Projecting Voices, ANU Press, Canberra

Hill C, 2025, 'Language of perception in Umpila', in Levinson S; Majid A (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Language of Perception, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Hill C; Ashmore L, 2020, 'Landscape categorisation in two Middle Paman languages', in Walsh M; Monaghan P (ed.), More than mere words: Essays on language and linguistics in honour of Peter Sutton, University of Adelaide Press, Adelaide, pp. 53 - 81

Hill C, 2010, 'Collaborative narration and cross-speaker repetition in Umpila and Kuuku Ya'u', in Baker B; Ilana M; Harvey M; Gardener R (ed.), Indigenous Language and Social Identity, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, pp. 237 - 260

Hill C, 2010, 'Emergency language documentation teams: the Cape York Peninsula experience', in Hobson J; Lowe K; Poetsch S; Walsh M (ed.), Re-Awakening Languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia’s Indigenous languages, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 418 - 432

Journal articles

Hill C; Verstraete J-C; Bundgaard-Nielsen R; Baker B, 2025, 'Medial consonant lengthening in Eastern Middle Paman: Syllable position or lexical stress?', Australian Journal of Linguistics

Jones C; Tran J; Jorgensen E; Hill R; Ellis P; Simpson J; Meakins F; Ben F; Reverter-Rambaldi M; Tudor-Smith G; Williams P; Hill C; Richards M, 2024, 'WordSpinner: Developing a tool to convert plain-text lexicon files into dictionary webpages', LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & CONSERVATION, 18, pp. 109 - 131

Poulton T; Hill C, 2023, 'Linguistic Descriptions and Cultural Models of Olfaction in Umpila and English', Language Sciences, 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101533

Radnan MJ; Li W; Stevens CJ; Hill C; Jones C, 2022, 'Measuring engagement among older adults using a multidimensional approach to communication', Frontiers in Psychology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.981008

Hill C, 2022, 'Multiparty storytelling in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u', Australian Journal of Linguistics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2022.2153580

Hill C, 2022, 'The irrelevance of scale and fixedness in landscape terms in two Aboriginal Australian languages', Linguistics Vanguard, 8, pp. 91 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0107

Majid A; Roberts SG; Cilissen L; Emmorey K; Nicodemus B; O'Grady L; Woll B; LeLan B; De Sousa H; Cansler BL; Shayan S; De Vos C; Senft G; Enfield NJ; Razak RA; Fedden S; Tufvesson S; Dingemanse M; Ozturk O; Brown P; Hill C; Le Guen O; Hirtzel V; Van Gijn R; Sicoli MA; Levinson SC, 2018, 'Differential coding of perception in the world's languages', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, pp. 11369 - 11376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720419115

Burenhult N; Hill C; Huber J; Van Putten S; Rybka K; San Roque L, 2017, 'Forests: The cross-linguistic perspective', Geographica Helvetica, 72, pp. 455 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-455-2017

Hill C, 2016, 'Expression of the interpersonal connection between narrators and characters in Umpila and Kuuku Ya'u storytelling', Narrative Inquiry, 26, pp. 257 - 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.26.2.04hil

Hill C, 2012, 'Wunderkammer Import Package: A tool for the creation of multimedia dictionaries for mobile phones.', Language Documentation and Conservation, pp. 282 - 291

Hill C, 2011, 'Named and unnamed spaces: Color, kin, and the environment in Umpila', Senses and Society, 6, pp. 57 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/174589311X12893982233759

Hill C, 2010, 'Review of the book Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages ed. by Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker', Studies in Language, pp. 215 - 225

Conference Papers

Palmer B; Blythe J; Ennever T; Gaby A; Hill C, 2024, 'New findings on the interaction of environment and spatial cognition', in Cognitive Processing, Springer, Rome, pp. S15 - S15, presented at International Conference of Spatial Cognition, Rome, 09 September 2024 - 13 September 2024

Hill C; Palmer B; Gaby A; Blythe J; Ennever T; Knudsen LS, 2024, 'Factors that mediate between environment and spatial cognition', in Cognitive Processing, Springer, Rome, presented at International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome, 09 September 2024 - 13 September 2025

Preprints

Radnan M; Li W; Stevens CJ; Hill C; Jones C, 2021, Measuring engagement among older adults using a multidimensional analysis of communication: Method Design (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.35469

Other

Hill C, 2010, Old Girls Yarn Together Video, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Hill C, 2009, Laura Festival 2009: Lockhart River Dance Group, Lockhart River Aboriginal Council, Cairns

Majid A (ed.), 2008, Ethnography of the senses, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, http://dx.doi.org/10.17617/2.492935

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