As of April 2018[update], Laughren is an Honorary Research Senior Fellow at the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland.
[3] She was the editor of the Warlpiri-English encyclopedic dictionary (Laughren et al. 2022), which was short-listed for the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards.
[5] In 2005 Laughren shared the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Inaugural Ken Hale Chair with Jane Simpson and David Nash.
[6] Laughren, Mary with Hale, Kenneth, Nungarrayi, Jeannie Egan, Jangala, Marlurrku Paddy Patrick, Hoogenraad, Robert, Nash, David and Simpson, Jane (2022).
In Carnie, Andrew, Harley, Heidi and Dooley, Sheila Ann (Ed.
A Learner's Guide to Warlpiri: Tape course for beginners, IAD Press, Alice Springs.
In J. Jacobs, A. von Stechow, W. Sternefeld, and T. Venneman, eds., Syntax: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, vol.
Mary Laughren (1984) Warlpiri Baby talk, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 4:1, 73-88