During ICL21 Poznań 2024
The Suwilai Premsrirat Award for excellent research in the field of language endangerment was awarded to Professor Rob Amery.
Professor Amery of Adelaide University in Australia has been working since the 1980s to reawaken Kaurna, the indigenous language of Adelaide in Australia. This language went out of daily use in the 1860s, and was sleeping from 1929. Professor Amery has worked very closely with the community to develop excellent materials for language learning and development, and supported a wide variety of community efforts to implement their use and raise the profile of this language and the Kaurna community. Kaurna is now used in a variety of settings.
The Ferenc Kiefer Award for the best early career presentation at ICL21 was awarded to:
First prize : Ryan Lidster and Danielle Daidone: “The case for examining perceptual similarity of L2 sounds to each other”.
Second prize: David Gyorfi: “The diachronic expansion of perfective constructions in Kazakh”.
Third prize: Elwira Dexter-Sobkowiak: “Mestizoamerican linguistic area: Spanish as a source of convergence in Mesoamerica”.
The Stephen Wurm Award for the best poster at ICL21 was awarded to:
First prize: Eline Daveloose: “The Cappadocian relative clause: regional diversification in a typological patchwork”.
Second prize: Iva Petrak: “(Re)negotiation of national identity in the Croatian puristic discourse”.
Third prize: Joanna Śmiecińska and Olga Sakson-Obada: “Emotional and linguistic prosody recognition in schizophrenia patients”.
