 Documentary Linguistics Workshop 2012
ILCAA/HRELP
11–16 February 2012
Teaching staff
David Nathan, Anthony Jukes, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Hideo Sawada, Iku Nagasaki, Honoré Watanabe
Location
Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
This document last updated: 14 February 2012 by DJN
Aims
The Workshop aims to further develop the skills of participants in preparing language documentation data, with a focus on recording, annotation and data management. It will consist of a mix of tutorial/lecture sessions, and guided groupwork sessions. Each group will work towards creating and presenting a small documentation corpus.
Recommended reading
Click here for recommended
reading from LDD 7
Schedule
The workshop for 2012 will provide a variety of formal, informal and practical sessions dealing with topics in language documentation including fieldwork, collection and management of data, archiving, audio, video, and ethics. This workshop will take a group-based "workflow" approach, proceeding from theoretical and practical issues in collecting documentation materials (audio, video), to analysing and archiving them.
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Language documentation: what is it? – DN
PPT |
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Video - AJ
PDF |
Fieldwork practicalities - AJ, HW, NH |
Multimedia & mobilisation - DN, AJ |
Archiving - DN
PPT |
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Tea/coffee break |
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Discuss goals and project – DN |
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Data management – DN
PPT |
Software for transcription & annotation – AJ
PDF
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Group project work – DN, AJ, NH |
Corpus integration – DN, AJ, NH |
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Lunch |
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Audio
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PPT
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Set up computers |
Working with speakers – NH, AJ
PPTX |
Group recording – DN, AJ |
Group project presentations |
Corpus integration – DN, AJ, NH |
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Tea/coffee
break |
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Audio
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Text manipulation – HS
PDF |
Project planning - DN, AJ, NH |
Group transcription - AJ, NH |
Group project sharing |
Whole corpus presentations
Wrap-up |
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Notes
- Attendance of this course is limited to invitees.
- Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop computers
and recording equipment if practical.
- This is a preliminary course outline
Further reading
Defining documentation | Fieldwork methods and ethics | Archiving and data handling | EMELD School of Best Practice | Encoding | Video and documentation | Multimedia and documentation | Microphones
There are also many good sources on the web - many are catalogued
in our catalogue of Online
Resources for Endangered Languages.
Below are some recommended links.
Defining documentation
Nikolaus Himmelmann: Documentary and descriptive linguistics (full version). In Osamu Sakiyama and Fubito Endo eds. Lectures on Endangered Languages: 5 (Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim, Kyoto, 2002)
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/himmelmann.pdf
Tony Woodbury: Defining Documentary Linguistics
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/woodbury.pdf
Fieldwork methods and ethics
Collette Grinevald: Speakers and documentation of endangered
languages
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/grinevald.pdf
AIATSIS: Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies
http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au/ifamp/practice/pdfs/AIATSISEthicsGuideA4.pdf
Archiving and data handling
Peter Austin: Documentation and your data
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/austin_documentation.pdf
Heidi Johnson: Language Documentation and Archiving, or How to
Build a Better Corpus
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/johnson.pdf
Bird and Simon's paper "Seven dimensions of portability"
http://www.language-archives.org/documents/portability.pdf
David Nathan and Peter Austin: Reconceiving metadata:
language documentation standards through thick and thin
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/nathan-austin.pdf
Peter Austin's paper on taming Shoebox
http://emeld.org/workshop/2003/Malyangapa.pdf
EMELD School of Best Practice
A large amount of excellent material can be found at the E-MELD
School of Best Practice (http://www.emeld.org/school/).
We recommend reading at least the following sections from
the Classroom:
- Mediatypes (audio, video)
- Documentation Types (Annotation, Lexicon)
- Conversion
- Archives
Encoding
Jost Gippert: Linguistic Documentation and The Encoding of
Textual Materials
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/gippert_encoding.pdf
Jukka Korpela: A tutorial on character code issues
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html
Video and documentation
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (Language Description and "The New Paradigm": What Linguists May Learn from Ethnocinematographers
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/4475/7/dimmendaal.pdf
Multimedia and documentation
David Nathan: Developing multimedia documentation
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/nathan_multimedia.pdf
David Nathan and Eva Csató: Multimedia: A Community-Oriented
Information and Communication Technology
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/nathan-csato.pdf
Microphones
David Nathan's article on microphones
http://www.hrelp.org/archive/advice/microphones.html
Peter Patrick: Beginners’ Notes about Using Microphones
http://courses.essex.ac.uk/LG/LG554/UsingMics.html
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