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Sophie Elizabeth Crouch
Since completing her ACICIS semester, Ms Sophie Crouch has had a continued connection with Indonesia. Fascinated by the linguistic diversity of Indonesia, she completed a BA with joint honours in Indonesian and Linguistics at the University of Western Australia in 2006. Sophie obtained her Master of Linguistics from the same institution in 2009, during which time she was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to conduct a research project and write a dissertation about Minangkabau, an under-documented language spoken in West Sumatra. The project involved spending several months in the field in Sumatra where she collected language data in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology linguistic field station at Bung Hatta University in Padang. Through her research Sophie hopes to help preserve and document the many colloquial and non-standard varieties of Indonesian as well as the minority and endangered languages spoken in Indonesia.
