Program Details

7^th International Conference on

Endangered and Lesser Known Languages

22-23 February 2019

Pre-conference Workshop

21st February 2019

Room Number 109 TEQIP Building

Workshop Registration at venue 10:00-10:30 am

Workshop I 10:30 am - 1:30 pm

Language Documentation, data management and transcription by Nicholas Thieberger The University of Melbourne

Duration: 3 hours

- creating reusable language records

- Data management issues (filenames, metadata, formats, permissions, archiving)

- Introduction to Elan - transcription

Elan: https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/

- Introduction to FLEx - interlinear texts and lexical database

Fieldworks (FLEx) http://fieldworks.sil.org (Windows only)

Workshop II 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Documenting child language acquisition in lesser-known languages

Dagmar Jung, Dr.

University of Zurich

Workshop Course: 2.5 hours

Language documentation comprises the collecting of a wide array of language genres in diverse communicative situations. A multi-modal corpus includes diverse instances of multi-generational speech to capture variations in speech and language across speakers. One component in this endeavor has often been neglected: first language acquisition that is how infants and young children start to understand and use the language. The field of psycholinguistics for a long time has concentrated its studies on rather big languages (due to availability), thereby neglecting the linguistic and cultural diversity on language learning situations. There are still too few language acquisition projects with a focus on lesser-known languages that could also result in cross-linguistic comparison of the cognitive and linguistic components involved in language learning. This seminar outlines the current state-of-the-art of longitudinal child language studies, and asks how the established methodology can be transferred to the reality of different field situations. We will look at examples from the DESLAS-corpus that is part of the larger ACQDIV-project based at the University of Zurich.

Considering how fast languages may fall out of use, it seems highly necessary to start this endeavor while language transmission within the families is still going on.

www.acqdiv.uzh.ch

Stoll, Sabine. 2016. Cross-linguistic approaches to language acquisition.

In: Cambridge Handbook of Child Language, ed. by Edith L. Bavin. 89-104

Workshop Valedictory and Consolidation 5:00-5:30pm

Schedule

Conference dates 22-23 Feb 2019

Schedule