Audio and Video Index

1. Sally Thomason's talk on Language Documentation (Audio)

Sally Thomason, linguistics professor at the University of Michigan, gave a talk at the LINGUIST List office about language documentation and her work on Salish (2008). You can download and listen the talk here (copyrights reserved).

Full version (approx.55 mins)
Short version (approx.25 mins)

Full version in sections:
- Section 1: Introduction (approx. 3:30 mins)
- Section 2: Starting from scratch (approx. 8:00 mins)
- Section 3: Beginning her own work on Salish (approx. 11:30 mins)
- Section 4: Practical advice on starting fieldwork (approx. 13:30 mins)
- Section 5: On Elicitation (approx. 9:20 mins)
- Section 6: Salish Phonology and Morphology (approx. 9:30 mins)

2. Gary Holton's talk on (Audio)

Gary Holton, a documentary linguist at University of Alaska Fairbanks, gave a talk at The LINGUIST List office about Athabaskan language relationships and language change. Download or stream his talk below (subject to copyrights).

Section 1: Introduction (approx. 0.47 mins)
Section 2: Introduction to Athabaskan (approx. 18:21 mins)
Section 3: Athabaskan and Language Relationships (approx. 16:14 mins)
Section 4: Athabaskan and Language Relationships cont. (approx. 7:21 mins)
Section 5: Conclusion (approx. 5:41 mins)

Tutorials

These tutorials were designed by our programmers to help train linguistics students for work at The LINGUIST List. We have found them to be helpful introductions or refreshers for the technical work linguists engage in everyday. We hope you find them helpful, too!

Basic CSS tutorial (video)
Basic CSS tutorial (powerpoint only)
CSS tutorial - Boxmodel (powerpoint)
CSS Floats tutorial (powerpoint)
HTML tutorial (powerpoint)
XHTML tutorial (powerpoint)
ColdFusion tutorial (powerpoint)
Introduction to Javascript (powerpoint)
Introduction to SQL (powerpoint)
Database Design I tutorial (powerpoint)
Database Design II tutorial (powerpoint)

EasyAbs Tutorial (coming soon!)
(go to the EasyAbs website)