Claire Louise Bowern | |
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Occupation | Linguist |
Known for | Computational phylogenetic classification of the Pama-Nyungan language family |
Title | Professor |
Awards | Kenneth L. Hale Award |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Bardi Verb Morphology in Historical Perspective (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | Jay Jasanoff, Calvert Watkins |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Australian Aboriginal languages, historical linguistics, language documentation |
Institutions | |
Website | Yale University webpage |
Claire Louise Bowern (/ˈboʊərn/) is a linguist who works with Australian Indigenous languages.[1] She is currently a professor of linguistics at Yale University, and has a secondary appointment in the department of anthropology at Yale.[2]