Summary
Amalia Skilton (University of Edinburgh) is a field linguist and linguistic anthropologist. She studies language use in interaction, especially child-caregiver interaction, based on fieldwork with speakers of Ticuna (isolate) and other Indigenous Amazonian languages. She has over 13 years of language documentation experience, including 30 months of in-person fieldwork in Peru.
Amalia's current projects include an academic reference grammar of Ticuna in English; a pedagogical grammar in Spanish; a collection of middle-grades picture books; and experimental/quantitative projects on deixis and child language acquisition. With Ryan Henke and Melvatha Chee, she edited the recent volume "Bridging Child Language Research to Practice for Indigenous Language Revitalization" (2025, Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 30).