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
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/