Media: Digital Tools for Linguistic Research
| Submitter: |
Susan Fischer
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| Submitter Email: | Susan.Fischer@rit.edu |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Historical Linguistics Language Documentation Anthropological Linguistics Discipline of Linguistics |
| Media Body: |
On July 28, 2009 the New York Times published a story on the use of digital tools to aid in the documentation of language. 'It used to be that field linguists like Dr. Childs, a scattered corps working against time to salvage the world’s endangered tongues — more than 3,000 at last count — scribbled data in smeared notebooks and stored sounds on cassette tapes, destined to rot in boxes. But linguistics has gone digital. Dr. Childs now uses a solid-state recorder, and he has applications that will analyze the elements of a vowel in seconds or compare sounds across languages.' Link to the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28prof.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss |
| Issue Number: | 20.2625 |
| Date Posted: | July 28, 2009 |
