25 November: Workshop on Language Documentation

Monday, November 25th @ 2 PM, Harper 140 (NOTE TIME CHANGE)

The Workshop on Language Variation and Change is pleased to offer a special workshop on language documentation taught by postdoctoral researcher Dorothea Hoffmann.  The workshop will take place from 2-3:45 PM in HM 140 (note time change)

Dr. Hoffmann has been conducting fieldwork on endangered languages of Australia since 2010 and brings a wealth of experience in modern techniques for language documentation, as well as a deep understanding for the complex role of the researcher in documenting sacred linguistic registers.  More about her work can be found on her website: https://sites.google.com/site/hoffmanndorothea/

As preparatory reading for the workshop, we are distributing the following papers, two by Tony Woodbury and one by Nikolaus Himmelmann.

woodbury defining documentary linguistics 

Woodbury_CUP_2011

himmelmann documentary and descriptive linguistics

Additionally, tools and resources from the following websites will be discussed:
http://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/
http://elar.soas.ac.uk/
http://www-01.sil.org/computIng/toolbox/
http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser/?openpath=MPI77915%23
http://sweet.artsrn.ualberta.ca/cdcox/cuped/
http://fieldworks.sil.org/flex/
http://www.sil.org/resources/software_fonts/wesay
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
http://handbrake.fr/
http://www.paradisec.org.au/