Sir Baldwin Spencer's recordings of Australian Aboriginal music

Towards Automatic Transcription of Australian Aboriginal Music

We describe a system designed for automatic extraction and segmentation of didjeridu and clapsticks from certain styles of traditional Aboriginal Australian music. For didjeridu, we locate the start of notes using a complexdomain note onset detection algorithm, and use the detected onsets as cues for determining the harmonic series of sinusoids belonging to the didjeridu. The harmonic series is...

Sir Jack Baldwin, FRS: biomimetic studies at Oxford.

October 2005 has brought about the end of an era in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford. Almost two years since the doors of the Dyson Perrins (DP) Laboratory were closed to organic chemistry, the last Head of this renowned department has retired his chair. Professor Sir Jack Baldwin, FRS (Fig. 1), Wayneflete Professor of Organic Chemistry, joined Oxford in 1978, succeeding Sir Ewart ...

Differences Between Values of Australian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Students

Dental caries among Australian Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal Australian-born, and overseas-born children.

Few studies have specifically compared the prevalence of dental caries among contemporary Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. Historically, Aboriginal groups have had substantially fewer dental caries than non-Aboriginal peoples. More recently, however, this trend appears to have been reversed, with improvements in the oral health of non-Aboriginal children and a deterioration in...

The vowels of Australian Aboriginal English

Basilectal varieties of Australian Aboriginal English (AAE), which are heavily influenced by the indigenous substrate, may have a very restricted set of vowels compared to Standard Australian English (SAE). A comparison of the vowels of a small group of acrolectal AAE speakers with those of the standard accent suggests that even in varieties with the same set of phonemes as SAE, speakers are us...