Research affiliate for the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of Tanah Papua (LCHTP) research grouP
Mae works with language communities in the southern New Guinea region with a focus on communities speaking Yam languages who live in South Papua. She practices community-lead language documentation where topics for documentation focus on community needs and interests. More broadly, her research seeks to explore the limits and drivers of linguistic complexity. She is also interested in the application of computational and mathematical methods for explaining linguistic diversity.
She was awarded her PhD from the Australian National University in 2017, where she worked with speakers of Ngkolmpu, a Yam Language spoken in South Papua (Indonesia). Mae has held fellowships at the Australian National University and the University of Surrey. She was a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the Surrey Morphology Group where she maintains visitor status. She is a member of the Research Unit for Indigenous Language and an affiliate of Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative.
She has broad interests in descriptive linguistics, linguistic typology, language evolution and computational modelling.
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