Researcher biography
I am an ARC Future Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Queensland and the Deputy Director of the UQ node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. I am a field linguist who specialises in the documentation of First Nations languages in the Northern Territory, particularly Gurindji, Bilinarra, Ngarinyman and Mudburra, and the effect of English and Kriol on these languages. I have worked as a community linguist as well as an academic over the past 20 years in remote regions of Australia, facilitating language revitalisation programs, consulting on Native Title claims and conducting research into First Nations languages. I have compiled a number of dictionaries and grammars of First Nations languages and have written numerous papers on language change in Australia. I also work with biologists at the ANU to model language change using population genetics methods and have a new collaboration with Caltech to explore whether Gurindji people’s extraordinary mental map of the world has a neurological basis, a new human 6th sense.
Books
Meakins, Felicity and McConvell, Patrick (2021). A grammar of Gurindji: as spoken by Violet Wadrill, Ronnie Wavehill, Dandy Danbayarri, Biddy Wavehill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Long Johnny Kijngayarri, Banjo Ryan, Pincher Nyurrmiari and Blanche Bulngari. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110746884
Dixon, Shannon Kulngankarri, Hughes, Wendy, Dixon, Janey Walanyku Lunjabirni, Dixon, Raymond Dimakarri, Bill, Maureen, Bill, Sarah, Bill, Raylene, Kingston, Susan, Nangkurrunyungu, Johnny Devlin, Hamilton-Hollaway, Amanda, Osgarby, David, Pensalfini, Rob and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Birrka marnini: making things Mudburra. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Press.
Turpin, Myfany and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Songs from the stations: Wajarra as performed by Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpnga, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal and Dandy Danbayarri, with additional verses by Patrick Smith, Jack Gordon and Marie Gordon. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.
Green, Rebecca, Green, Jennifer, Hamilton-Hollaway, Amanda, Meakins, Felicity, Osgarby, David and Pensalfini, Rob (2019). Mudburra to English Dictionary. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Wadrill, Violet, Wavehill, Biddy Yamawurr, Dodd, Topsy Ngarnjal and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Karu: Growing up Gurindji. Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press.
Jones, Caroline, Denniss, Jessica, Schultze-Berndt, Eva and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Ngarinyman to English dictionary. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity, Green, Jennifer and Turpin, Myfany (2018). Understanding linguistic fieldwork. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203701294
Raymond, Pompey, Dixon, Pharlap, Dixon, Sue, Dixon, Shannon, Dixon, Ray, Dixon, Jeffrey, Dixon, Janey, Dixon, Elizabeth, Raymond, Mark, Dalywaters, Harold, Collins, Jumbo, Woods, Robin, Peterson-Cooper, Eileen, Meakins, Felicity, Pensalfini, Rob and Wightman, Glenn (2018). Jingulu and Mudburra plants and animals: biocultural knowledge of the Jingili and Mudburra people of Murranji, Marlinja, Warranganku (Beetaloo) and Kulumindini (Elliott), Northern Territory, Australia. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Institute.
Wadrill, Violet, Wavehill Yamawurr, Biddy and Meakins, Felicity (2015). Kawarla: how to make a coolamon. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Press.
Meakins, Felicity and Nordlinger, Rachel (2014). A grammar of Bilinarra: an Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781614512745
Meakins, Felicity, McConvell, Patrick, Charola, Erika, McNair, Norm, McNair, Helen and Campbell, Lauren (2013). Gurindji to English dictionary. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2013). Bilinarra to English dictionary. Batchelor, NT, Australia: Batchelor Press.
Hector, Ivy Kulngari, Jungurra Kalabidi, George, Banjo, Spider, Nangari Ngarnjal Dodd, Topsy, Jangala Wirrba Wavehill, Ronnie, Danbayarri, Dandy, Nanaku Wadrill, Violet, Puntiyarri, Bernard, Bernard Malyik, Ida, Wavehill, Biddy, Morris, Helen, Campbell, Lauren, Meakins, Felicity and Wightmann, Glenn (2012). Bilinarra, Gurindji and Malngin plants and animals: Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Nijburru, Kalkarindji and Daguragu, Northern Australia. Katherine, NT, Australia: Bilinarra, Gurindji and Malngin People; Department of Land Resource Management.
Meakins, Felicity (2011). Case-marking in contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Book Chapters
Meakins, Felicity, Ennever, Thomas, Osgarby, David, Browne, Mitch and Hamilton-Hollaway, Amanda (2022). Ngumpin-Yapa languages. Oxford guide to Australian languages. (pp. xxx-xxx) edited by Claire Bowern. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Dunn, Vivien and Meakins, Felicity (2022). Ergativity. Oxford guide to Australian languages. (pp. 217-225) edited by Claire Bowern. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Dandy, Kira, Dandy, Jezebel and Meakins, Felicity (2022). Wavehill, Ronnie (1936–2000). Indigenous Australian dictionary of biography. (pp. xxx-xxx) Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU.
Meakins, Felicity and Stewart, Jesse (2022). Mixed languages. Cambridge handbook of language contact. (pp. xxx-xxx) edited by Saliko Mufwene and Anna María Escobar. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Dunn, Vivien, Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2021). Acquisition or shift: Interpreting variation in Gurindji children’s expression of spatial relations. Variation Rolls the Dice. (pp. 105-131) edited by Aboh, Enoch and Vigouroux, Cécile. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/coll.59.05dun
Stewart, Jesse and Meakins, Felicity (2021). Advances in mixed language phonology: an overview of three case studies. New perspectives on mixed languages: from core to fringe. (pp. 57-92) edited by Maria Mazzoli and Eeva Sippola. Boston, United States: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9781501511257-003
Meakins, Felicity and Wilmoth, Sasha (2020). Overabundance resulting from language contact: Complex cell-mates in Gurindji Kriol. The complexities of morphology. (pp. 81-104) edited by Arkadiev, Peter and Gardani, Francesco. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198861287.003.0004
Meakins, Felicity (2020). Typological factors. The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact. (pp. 185-200) edited by Adamou, Evangelia and Matras, Yaron. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Meakins, Felicity (2020). Australia and the south west Pacific. Handbook of Pidgin and Creole languages. (pp. 88-105) edited by Meyerhoff, Miriam and Ansaldo, Umberto. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Bond, Oliver, Meakins, Felicity and Nordlinger, Rachel (2019). Prominent possessor indexing in Gurindji. Prominent internal possessors. (pp. 80-106) edited by András Bárány, Oliver Bond and Irina Nikolaeva. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198812142.003.0003
Meakins, Felicity (2019). Morphology. Language contact: an international handbook. (pp. 63-75) edited by Jeroen Darquennes, Joe Salmons and Wim Vandenbussche. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110435351-006
Croft, Brenda, Toussaint, Sandy, Meakins, Felicity and McConvell, Patrick (2019). For the children...”: Aboriginal Australia, cultural access, and archival obligation. Archival returns: Central Australia and beyond. (pp. 173-191) edited by Barwick, Linda, Green, Jennifer and Vaarzon-Morel, Petronella. Sydney, NSW Australia: Sydney University Press.
Fraser, Henry, Mushin, Ilana, Meakins, Felicity and Gardner, Rod (2018). Dis, that and da other: variation in Aboriginal children's article and demonstrative use at school. Language practices of Indigenous children and youth: the transition from home to school. (pp. 237-269) edited by Gillian Wigglesworth, Jane Simpson and Jill Vaughan. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-60120-9_10
Meakins, Felicity (2018). Mixed languages. Oxford research encyclopedias: Literature. (pp. 1-29) edited by Mark Aronoff. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.151
Meakins, Felicity (2017). The carbines were talking English: violence and language in the colonisation of Gurindji country. Still in my mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality. (pp. 73-75) edited by Brenda L. Croft, Penny Smith and Felicity Meakins. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: UQ Art Museum.
Meakins, Felicity and Charola, Erika (2016). Introduction. Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country. (pp. 1-4) edited by Erika Beatriz Charola and Felicity Helen Meakins. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
O'Shannessy, Carmel and Meakins, Felicity (2016). Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective. Loss and renewal: Australian languages since colonisation. (pp. 3-26) edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Meakins, Felicity (2016). No fixed address: The grammaticalisation of the Gurindji locative as a progressive suffix. Loss and renewal: Australian languages since colonisation. (pp. 367-396) edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Meakins, Felicity and Pensalfini, Rob (2016). Gender bender: Disagreement in Jingulu noun class marking. Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation. (pp. 425-450) edited by Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Meakins, Felicity (2016). Background to the removal of children. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 135-136) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity and Charola, Erika (2016). Other accounts of settlement characters. Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country. (pp. 194-196) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Charola, Erika and Meakins, Felicity (2016). Official and newspaper accounts of Wave Hill in early air searches. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 144-145) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2016). Police reports of Gordon Stott. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 228-229) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Charola, Erika and Meakins, Felicity (2016). Other reported accounts of conflict. Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country. (pp. 67-72) edited by Erika Beatriz Charola and Felicity Helen Meakins. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity and Charola, Erika (2016). European and further accounts of the early murders. Yijarni: True Stories from Gurindji Country. (pp. 80-83) edited by Erika Beatriz Charola and Felicity Helen Meakins. Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity and Charola, Erika (2016). European accounts of the flood and its consequences. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 112-114) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2016). Conditions under the Vesteys. Yijarni: true stories from Gurindji country. (pp. 182-186) edited by Erika Charola and Felicity Meakins. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2015). From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: the life cycle of the Gurindji ergative suffix. Borrowed morphology. (pp. 189-218) edited by Francesco Gardani, Peter Arkadiev and Nino Amiridze. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9781614513209.189
Meakins, Felicity (2014). Nominals as arguments or adjuncts: further evidence from language mixing. Language description informed by theory. (pp. 283-315) edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing. doi: 10.1075/slcs.147.12mea
Meakins, Felicity (2014). Language contact varieties. The languages and linguistics of Australia: a comprehensive guide. (pp. 365-416) edited by Harold Koch and Rachel Nordlinger. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110279771.365
Meakins, Felicity (2013). Mixed languages. Contact languages: a comprehensive guide. (pp. 159-228) edited by Peter Bakker and Yaron Matras. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Schultze-Berndt, Eva, Meakins, Felicity and Angelo, Denise (2013). Kriol. English-Based and Dutch-Based Languages. (pp. 241-251) edited by Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath and Magnus Huber. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2013). Gurindji Kriol. Contact languages based on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. (pp. 131-139) edited by Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath and Magnus Huber. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2010). The importance of understanding language ecologies for revitalisation. Reawakening languages: Theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages. (pp. 225-239) edited by John Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch and Michael Walsh. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.
Meakins, Felicity (2009). The case of the shifty ergative marker: A pragmatic shift in the ergative marker in one Australian mixed language. The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case. (pp. 59-91) edited by J. Barddal and S. Chelliah. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Meakins, Felicity (2008). Land, language and identity: The socio-political origins of Gurindji Kriol. Social lives in language - sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities : celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff. (pp. 69-94) edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Meakins, Felicity (2008). Unravelling languages: Multilingualism and language contact in Kalkaringi. Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school. (pp. 283-302) edited by Jane Simpson and Gillian Wigglesworth. London, U.K.: Continuum.
Journal Articles
Meakins, Felicity (2023). What have we missed? : Theorising about Creoles in the absence of Melanesia and Australia. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 38 (1), 170-187. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00109.mea
Meakins, Felicity (2023). Quantifying the language dynamics of bilingual communities. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13 (1), 76-82. doi: 10.1075/lab.22059.mea
Green, Jennifer, Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2022). Tradition and innovation: using sign language in a Gurindji community in Northern Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 42 (2), 1-26. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2022.2105137
Meakins, Felicity (2022). Empiricism or imperialism: the science of Creole Exceptionalism. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 37 (1), 189-203. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00092.mea
Sloan, Bodean, Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2022). Intergenerational changes in Gurindji Kriol: Comparing apparent-time and real-time data. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 8 (1), 1-31. doi: 10.1075/aplv.21001.slo
Bromham, Lindell, Dinnage, Russell, Skirgård, Hedvig, Ritchie, Andrew, Cardillo, Marcel, Meakins, Felicity, Greenhill, Simon and Hua, Xia (2022). Erratum: publisher correction: global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity (Nature ecology & evolution (2022) 6 2 (163-173)). Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6 (2), 231-231. doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01684-4
Meakins, Felicity (2022). The word wide web: a mycelial turn in the conceptualisation and modelling of language evolution. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 37 (2), 396-416. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00099.mea
Hua, Xia, Meakins, Felicity, Algy, Cassandra and Bromham, Lindell (2022). Language change in multidimensional space: new methods for modelling linguistic coherence. Language Dynamics and Change, 12 (1), 78-123. doi: 10.1163/22105832-bja10015
Bromham, Lindell, Dinnage, Russell, Skirgård, Hedvig, Ritchie, Andrew, Cardillo, Marcel, Meakins, Felicity, Greenhill, Simon and Hua, Xia (2021). Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6 (2), 163-173. doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01604-y
Meakins, Felicity, Pensalfini, Rob, Zipf, Caitlin and Hamilton-Hollaway, Amanda (2020). Lend me your verbs: verb borrowing between Jingulu and Mudburra. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 40 (3), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2020.1804830
Meakins, Felicity, Disbray, Samantha and Simpson, Jane (2020). Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? The direction of case syncretisms. Morphology, 30 (4), 373-393. doi: 10.1007/s11525-020-09357-3
Meakins, Felicity and Pensalfini, Rob (2020). Holding the mirror up to converted languages: two grammars, one lexicon. International Journal of Bilingualism, 25 (2), 136700692092246-457. doi: 10.1177/1367006920922461
Stewart, Jesse, Meakins, Felicity, Algy, Cassandra, Ennever, Thomas and Joshua, Angelina (2020). Fickle fricatives: Fricative and stop perception in Gurindji Kriol, Roper Kriol, and Standard Australian English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147 (4), 2766-2778. doi: 10.1121/10.0000991
Turpin, Myfany, Meakins, Felicity, Mudgedell, Marie, Tchooga, Angie and Yeoh, Calista (2020). 'Puranguwana': ‘Perishing in the sun’ as sung by Patrick Smith, Jack Gordon and Marie Gordon. Aboriginal History, 44, 59-88.
Bromham, L., Hua, X., Algy, C. and Meakins, F. (2020). Language endangerment: a multidimensional analysis of risk factors. Journal of Language Evolution, 5 (1), 75-91. doi: 10.1093/jole/lzaa002
Meakins, Felicity, Hua, Xia , Algy, Cassandra and Bromham, Lindell (2019). Birth of a contact language did not favor simplification. Language, 95 (2), 294-332. doi: 10.1353/lan.2019.0032
Pensalfini, Rob and Meakins, Felicity (2019). Gender lender: noun borrowings between Jingulu and Mudburra in northern Australia. Journal of Language Contact, 12 (2), 440-478. doi: 10.1163/19552629-01202007
Stewart, Jesse, Meakins, Felicity, Algy, Cassandra and Joshua, Angelina (2018). The Development of Phonological Stratification: Evidence from Stop Voicing Perception in Gurindji Kriol and Roper Kriol. Journal of Language Contact, 11 (1), 71-112. doi: 10.1163/19552629-01101003
Ennever, Thomas, Meakins, Felicity and Round, Erich (2017). A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8 (1). doi: 10.5334/labphon.18
Meakins, Felicity and Nordlinger, Rachel (2017). Possessor dissension: agreement mismatch in Ngumpin-Yapa possessive constructions. Linguistic Typology, 21 (1), 143-188. doi: 10.1515/lingty-2017-0004
van den Bos, Jackie, Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2017). Searching for “Agent Zero”: the origins of a relative case system. Language Ecology, 1 (1), 4-24. doi: 10.1075/le.1.1.02van
Meakins, Felicity and Algy, Cassandra (2016). Deadly reckoning: changes in Gurindji children’s knowledge of cardinals. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 36 (4), 479-501. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2016.1169973
Meakins, Felicity, Jones, Caroline and Algy, Cassandra (2015). Bilingualism, language shift and the corresponding expansion of spatial cognitive systems. Language Sciences, 54, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2015.06.002
Meakins, Felicity (2015). Not obligatory: bound pronoun variation in Gurindji and Bilinarra. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 1 (2), 128-161. doi: 10.1075/aplv.1.2.02mea
Jones, Caroline and Meakins, Felicity (2013). The phonological forms and perceived functions of janyarrp, the Gurindji 'baby talk' register. Lingua, 134, 170-193. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.07.004
Jones, Caroline and Meakins, Felicity (2013). Variation in voice onset time in stops in Gurindji Kriol: picture naming and conversational speech. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 33 (2), 196-220. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2013.814525
Meakins, Felicity and Wigglesworth, Gillian (2013). How much input is enough? Correlating comprehension and child language input in an endangered language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 34 (2), 171-188. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2012.733010
Jones, Caroline, Meakins, Felicity and Muawiyath, Shujau (2012). Learning vowel categories from maternal speech in Gurindji Kriol. Language Learning, 62 (4), 1052-1078. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00725.x
O'Shannessy, Carmel and Meakins, Felicity (2012). Comprehension of competing argument marking systems in two Australian mixed languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15 (2), 378-396. doi: 10.1017/S1366728911000307
Meakins, Felicity (2012). Which mix? Code-switching or a mixed language: Gurindji Kriol. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 27 (1), 105-140. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.27.1.03mea
Meakins, Felicity and O'Shannessy, Carmel (2012). Typological constraints on verb integration in two Australian mixed languages1,2. Journal of Language Contact, 5 (2), 216-246. doi: 10.1163/19552629-006001001
Jones, Caroline, Meakins, Felicity and Buchan, Heather (2011). Comparing vowels in Gurindji Kriol and Katherine English: Citation speech data. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31 (3), 305-326. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2011.598629
Meakins, Felicity (2011). Spaced out: Inter-generational changes in the expression of spatial relations by Gurindji people. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31 (1), 43-77. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2011.532857
Meakins, Felicity (2011). Borrowing contextual inflection: evidence from northern Australia. Morphology, 21 (1), 57-87. doi: 10.1007/s11525-010-9163-4
Meakins, Felicity and O'Shannessy, Carmel (2010). Ordering arguments about: Word order and discourse motivations in the development and use of the ergative marker in two Australian mixed languages. Lingua, 120 (7), 1693-1713. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.05.013
Meakins, F (2010). The development of asymmetrical serial verb constructions in an Australian mixed language. Linguistic Typology, 14 (1), 1-38. doi: 10.1515/LITY.2010.001
Meakins, Felicity (2009). Final Cut Pro: from Apple, Inc. Journal of Language Documentation and Conservation, 3 (1), 125-130.
Meakins, Felicity (2007). Computerized Language Analysis (CLAN) from The CHILDES Project. Journal of Language Documentation and Conservation, 1 (1), 107-112.
Meakins, Felicity and O'Shannessy, Carmel (2005). Possessing variation: Age and inalienability related variables in the possessive constructions of two Australian mixed languages. Monash University Linguistics Papers, 4 (2), 43-63.
McConvell, Patrick and Meakins, Felicity (2005). Gurindji Kriol: A mixed language emerges from code-switching. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 25 (1), 9-30. doi: 10.1080/07268600500110456
Meakins, Felicity (2000). Reknowing the bicycle: Renewing its space. M/C Reviews, 6, 1-1.
Meakins, Felicity and Rintel, Sean (2000). Editorial: 'Chat'. M/C Journal, 3 (4)
Meakins, Felicity (2000). Review of The Lingo: Listening to Australian English by Graham Seal Sydney: UNSW Press. Journal of Australian Studies, 24 (65), 216-217. doi: 10.1080/14443050009387605
Ensor, Jason and Meakins, Felicity H. (1999). 'End'. M/C: A Journal of media & culture, 2 (8)
Meakins, Felicity (1999). De Mortuis Bonum: An internet eulogy tour. M - C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 2 (7)
Meakins, Felicity (1999). The subject of Howard's desire: Passive sentences and political intention. M / C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 2 (5), x-x.
Meakins, Felicity H. (1999). Shooting Baywatch: Resisting cultural invasion. M/C: A journal of media & culture, 2 (2).
Thesis
Meakins, F. (2001). Lashings of Tongue: A Relevance Theroetic Account of Impoliteness. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.