Andean Aymara

Research into the phonology of Aymara continues productively thanks to the guidance of Antonia Colazo Simon at the phonetics lab at Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris 3. Stage 1 is well underway — so we are hard at work going through hundreds of elicited words and annotating them on a text grid in Praat. Results are [...]

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I’ve been meanig to post an update on the Muylaq’ Aymara documentation project for some time now, but things have been so busy that it’s only now that I’m getting to it. Here’s a summary of some of the latest developments:

Thanks to the help of Edwin Banegas and his family, the book of Aymara stories [...]

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ABC  Radio National has a lot of interesting podcasts — most notably All in the Mind with Natasha Mitchell. There is, however, another show which may be of interest to linguists, Ockham’s Razor. The penultimate show, entitled “Language and prehistory”  deals with contact situations between speakers of English and Australian Aborigine populations. I haven’t had [...]

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In this entry I will list some of the most useful programs I’ve found to help with the language documentation-related aspects of this project.  I will focus more on three programs which you may not have heard of but which are definitely handy. I’ll leave Elan and Praat for a different entry.
1.  Wavosaur - This [...]

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AILDI’s 30th Anniversary
Meeting Description:
This summer, AILDI is celebrating 30 years of Indigenous language work with a  celebration and symposium. The symposium, held this year from June 29th to July 2nd, will feature presentations, panels and discussions from AILDI participants, as well as from scholars from across the U.S., Mexico and beyond working in communities on language revitalization, [...]

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SEL (Studies on Endangered Languages) recently sent out this call for papers for an open archive, presumably similar to the similar to Rutgers Optimality Archive in the sense that it is an open repository:
Call: We would like to announce a new open archive for unpublished, in-progress and in-press papers on endangered languages: Studies on Endangered Languages. [...]

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The National Library of Australia’s Community Heritage Grants program is calling for new proposals. 
Applications close: Friday 5 June at 5pm. 
According to their own website, the Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program aims to preserve and provide access to nationally significant, Australian cultural heritage material held by community groups across the country. Grants of up to $15,000 [...]

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For the next few months, the well-known PBS documentary can be seen for free here.
To make ‘The Linguists’ part of your permanent collection for educational 
screenings, visit this site. 
To learn more, visit the official site. 

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The closing date is 3rd August. 
Full details including application pack and forms are available here. 
Categories: 
- Small Grants 
- Individual Graduate Scholarships 
- Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships 
- Major Documentation Projects 
- Training Activity Grants (opening postponed: see below) 
Dates: 
- Applications open: 15 May 
- Applications due: 3 August 
- Decisions notified: January 2010

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Written by: Amedeo De Dominicis 
Description: The book is devoted to linguistic and phonetic analysis of some undescribed and endangered languages. It collects the Proceedings of the international conference on “Undescribed and endangered languages: the preservation of linguistic diversity” held in University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), on September 29, 2005. Papers are by Roberto Ajello (Pisa), Amedeo De [...]

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