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Mae Carroll is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne's School of Languages and Linguistics. She specializes in Papuan languages, particularly their morphological and typological structures. Her research focuses on inflectional morphology, language evolution, and computational modelling. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University (2017) and has held fellowships at the University of Surrey’s Surrey Morphology Group. She is affiliated with the Research Unit for Indigenous Language and the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative.
Her research interests include descriptive linguistics, linguistic typology, and language documentation. Key projects involve the Yei language documentation (Endangered Language Documentation Programme), the digitization of the 'Lexicon of Proto Oceanic,' and the Yamfinder database comparing 30+ Southern New Guinea languages. Awards include the British Academy Newton International Fellowship and multiple grants from the British Academy and University of Surrey.
Recent publications explore exponence in paradigms, distributed morphological structures, and phonological patterns in Ngkolmpu. Her work combines traditional field methods with computational approaches, emphasizing community-led language documentation to preserve endangered languages for both academic and community use.
