Endangered languages and new technologies /
Endangered languages and new technologies /
Endangered languages & new technologies
edited by Mari C. Jones.
- 1 online resource (xv, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Preface / Mari C. Jones -- Introduction: Endangered languages in the new multilingual order per genus et differentiam / Nicholas Ostler -- The Kiranti comparable corpus: a prototype corpus for the comparison of Kiranti languages and mythology / Aimée Lahaussois -- European dialect syntax: towards an infrastructure for documentation and research of endangered dialects / Sjef Barbiers -- Keyboard layouts: lessons from the Me'phaa and Sochiapam Chinantec designs / Hugh Paterson III -- Rule-based machine translation for Aymara / Matt Coler and Petr Homola -- Data management and analysis for endangered languages / Dorothee Beermann -- Endangered languages, technology and learning: immediate applications and long-term considerations / Russell Hugo -- Digital curation and event-driven methods at the service of endangered languages / Bernard Bel and Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus --'Allant contre vent et mathée': Jèrriais in the twenty-first century / Anthony Scott Warren and Geraint Jennings -- The use of new technologies in the preservation of an endangered language: the case of Frisian / Tjeerd De Graaf, Cor Van Der Meer and Lysbeth Jongbloed-Faber -- Language description and documentation from the native speaker's point of view: the case of the Tundra Yukaghir / Cecilia Odé -- American Indian sign language: documentary linguistic methodologies and technologies / Jeffrey E. Davis.
At a time when many of the world's languages are at risk of extinction, the imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very great. At this critical time new technologies such as visual and aural archiving, digitisation of textual resources, electronic mapping and social media, have the potential to play an integral role in language maintenance and revitalisation. Drawing on studies of endangered languages from around the world - Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America - this volume considers how these new resources might best be applied, and the problems that they can bring. It also re-assesses more traditional techniques of documentation in light of new technologies and works towards achieving a practicable synthesis of old and new methodologies. This accessible volume will be of interest to researchers in language endangerment, language typology and linguistic anthropology, and to community members working in native language maintenance.
9781107279063 (ebook)
Language obsolescence--Technological innovations.
Language and languages--Technological innovations.
P40.5.L33 / E533 2015
417/.7
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Preface / Mari C. Jones -- Introduction: Endangered languages in the new multilingual order per genus et differentiam / Nicholas Ostler -- The Kiranti comparable corpus: a prototype corpus for the comparison of Kiranti languages and mythology / Aimée Lahaussois -- European dialect syntax: towards an infrastructure for documentation and research of endangered dialects / Sjef Barbiers -- Keyboard layouts: lessons from the Me'phaa and Sochiapam Chinantec designs / Hugh Paterson III -- Rule-based machine translation for Aymara / Matt Coler and Petr Homola -- Data management and analysis for endangered languages / Dorothee Beermann -- Endangered languages, technology and learning: immediate applications and long-term considerations / Russell Hugo -- Digital curation and event-driven methods at the service of endangered languages / Bernard Bel and Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus --'Allant contre vent et mathée': Jèrriais in the twenty-first century / Anthony Scott Warren and Geraint Jennings -- The use of new technologies in the preservation of an endangered language: the case of Frisian / Tjeerd De Graaf, Cor Van Der Meer and Lysbeth Jongbloed-Faber -- Language description and documentation from the native speaker's point of view: the case of the Tundra Yukaghir / Cecilia Odé -- American Indian sign language: documentary linguistic methodologies and technologies / Jeffrey E. Davis.
At a time when many of the world's languages are at risk of extinction, the imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very great. At this critical time new technologies such as visual and aural archiving, digitisation of textual resources, electronic mapping and social media, have the potential to play an integral role in language maintenance and revitalisation. Drawing on studies of endangered languages from around the world - Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America - this volume considers how these new resources might best be applied, and the problems that they can bring. It also re-assesses more traditional techniques of documentation in light of new technologies and works towards achieving a practicable synthesis of old and new methodologies. This accessible volume will be of interest to researchers in language endangerment, language typology and linguistic anthropology, and to community members working in native language maintenance.
9781107279063 (ebook)
Language obsolescence--Technological innovations.
Language and languages--Technological innovations.
P40.5.L33 / E533 2015
417/.7