Representing the Institute
2009
At the 2009 Graduate Research Fair, Matthew Lahrman presented on synthesizing and creating maps for Southeast Asian languages as part of his work on the LL-MAP Project, a project designed to integrate language information with data from the physical and social sciences by means of a Geographical Information System (GIS).
Hunter, Stephanie, Andrea and Gary presented on the difficulties of maintaining and digitizing geolinguistic data. This presentation was based on work conducted at the Alaska Native Language Archive (at University of Alaska, Fairbanks) in August of 2008 as part of the LL-Map project. Findings were presented at the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the beautiful University of Hawaii. If you would like to hear the presentation, please visit the conference website.
"MultiTree - a digital library of language relationships" with Bethany Townsend (Eastern Michigan University), Susan Smith (Wayne State University) . Location: San Francisco, CA.
At the LSA 2009 Conference, Bethany Townsend and Susan Smith gave a poster presentation for MultiTree, an online, NSF-funded research project that will include all scholarly hypotheses about these relationships, represented as trees. The poster highlighted the main aspects of MultiTree, including an interface with a hyperbolic viewer, and node codes that give a lect a constant identity, allowing for the comparison of different hypotheses.
"Vowel duration in AAVE" with Catherine Adams (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: San Francisco, CA.
At the annual Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Conference, Catherine Adams gave a presentation on the results of the comparison of the duration of tense versus lax vowels in a corpus of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) speech from Southeastern Michigan.
"Vowel perception and the chronology of the Northern Cities Shift" with Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz (Eastern Michigan University) . Location: San Francisco, CA.
At the LSA 2009 Conference, Luiza Newlin-Lukwoicz presented on her investigation of listener perception of /æ/, /oh/, and /o/manifesting different degrees of shifting. In this presentation, she evaluated two conflicting views on the chronology of the Northern Cities Shift, thus bringing into question apparent-time approaches to the reconstruction of chain shifts.
2008
"LL-MAP - a tool for mapping sociolinguistic variation" with Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz (Eastern Michigan University/LINGUIST List), Daniel Parker (Eastern Michigan University/LINGUIST List) . Location: Houston, TX.
At NWAV 37, Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz and Daniel Parker presented the NSF-funded project developed at the LINGUIST List, LL-MAP (Language and Location - a Map Annotation Project). Their talk focused on several features of this online facility and demonstrated its usefulness in sociolinguistic research.
"Bamboo Workshop" Location: University of Chicago.
Helen Aristar-Dry, Anthony Aristar, Michael Appleby and Bethany Townsend attended the workshop "The Planning Process & Understanding Arts and Humanities Scholarship" at the University of Chicago, Illinois. The workshop was part of The Bamboo Planning Project, which brings together faculty, IT representatives, and librarians to discuss digital support for the Humanities
"Democracy and Reliability: A report on an international effort to update linguistics articles in Wikipedia" with Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz and Roxana Ma Newman (The LINGUIST List) . Location: Student Center, Eastern Michigan University.
Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz and Roxana Ma Newman gave a presentation on LINGUIST's Wikipedia Update Project to revise and edit linguistics articles in the online encyclopedia. The presentation was given in the context of the one-day symposium "Democracy in Our Wiki-World," sponsored by EMU's Department of English Language and Literature and the Department of History and Philosophy.
2007
"Conference on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity" with Anthony Aristar (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: World Language Centre, Iceland.
Anthony Aristar gave a presentation on ILIT's E-MELD Project in a special session featuring the research and projects of language institutes around the world. This was part of the Conference on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity held at the World Language Centre in Iceland.
"Internationalization and Unicode Conference" with Michael Appleby (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: San Jose, California.
Michael Appleby was a panelist in the "Unicode on the Front Lines" session of the 31st Internationalization and Unicode Conference in San Jose, CA and spoke on the use of Unicode in ILIT's E-MELD Project for documenting endangered languages.
"NSF/NEH Workshop on Documentation of Endangered Languages" with Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: Durham, New Hampshire.
Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry were invited to and attended the NSF/NEH Workshop on Documentation of Endangered Languages, New England Center, Durham, NH.
"Oliver Wilke Stiftung" with Michael Appleby (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: University of Buffalo.
Michael Appleby represented ILIT at a meeting on human languages of the Oliver Wilke Stiftung held at the University of Buffalo.
"NSF Human and Social Dynamics Workshop" with Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: Washington, DC.
Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry were invited to and attended the NSF Human and Social Dynamics Workshop, Washington, DC.
"NSF Workshop on Data Visualization" with Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: Washington, DC.
Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry were invited to and attended the NSF Workshop on Data Visualization, Washington, DC.
"Mapping new territory: Integrating GIS into a cyberinfrastructure for linguistics" with Helen Aristar-Dry (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
Helen Aristar-Dry presented a plenary paper, "Mapping new territory: Integrating GIS into a cyberinfrastructure for linguistics" at the 38th Poznan Linguistic Meeting held at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
"TILR Workshop" with Michael Appleby (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: Stanford University.
Michael Appleby gave a demonstration of the GOLD ontology at the "Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources (TILR)" Workshop at Stanford, CA, to show how to access it from the ILIT website and encourage feedback from linguists.
"MPI-EVA Database Meeting" with Anthony Aristar (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Anthony Aristar attended a language database meeting at the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
"Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS)" Location: Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
Helen Aristar-Dry presented a paper, "Technology in Language Documentation," at the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS) in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Bethany Townsend and Megan Zdrojkowski were co-organizers of the symposium. Other crew members who attended were Catherine Adams, Ania Kubisz, Matt Lahrman, Dan Parker, Jeremy Taylor, Jana Thompson, Hunter Townsend, and Martin Warin.
"Surrey Morphology Group" with Helen Aristar-Dry, Michael Appleby & Martin Warin (ILIT, Eastern Michigan University) . Location: University of Surrey.
Helen Aristar-Dry, Michael Appleby, and Martin Warin traveled to the University of Surrey to work with members of the Surrey Morphology Group who are collaborating on ILIT's GOLD Ontology project.
"Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting" Location: Anaheim, California.
Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, and LINGUIST List crew members attended the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA.