LINGUIST List 23.544 Thu Feb 02 2012 Confs: Language Documentation/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     James Essegbey , Workshop on Video Recording in Language Documentation Message 1: Workshop on Video Recording in Language Documentation Date: 31-Jan-2012 From: James Essegbey <essegbeyufl.edu> Subject: Workshop on Video Recording in Language Documentation E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on Video Recording in Language Documentation Date: 11-Feb-2012 - 12-Feb-2012 Location: Gainesville, Florida, USA Contact: James Essegbey Contact Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation Meeting Description: Dr. Mandana Seyfeddinipur from the Endangered Languages Documentation Program, School of Oriental and African Studies, will be training workshop participants in video recordings techniques and processing video data. The following talks are also lined up for the semester at the University of Florida: Speaker: Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas at Austin Title: The Complexity of Tone in the Chatino languages of Oaxaca, Mexico. Place: 219 Dauer Hall Date: Friday, February 10, 4:00-5:30 pm. Speaker: Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Hans-Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Program, SOAS Title: Gestures and language documentation: A case study in of a Persian gesture Place: 302 Pugh Hall Date: Monday, February 13, 4:00 - 5:30 Speaker: Friederike Luepke, Hans-Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Program, SOAS Title: Beyond documenting the ancestral code - avenues for documentary linguistics in an African context Place: 1208 Turlington Date: Tuesday, March 20, 4:00 - 5:30 For further information about the talks contact Jack Martin, jackmartinufl.edu Saturday 9:00 - 10:30 Multimodality in communication 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:30 - 12:30 How to record video 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:00 Preparing video equipment 3:00 -5:00 Practice recording 5:00 - 6:00 Uploading recording Sunday 10:00 - 12:00 Review of recording 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 Editing material 3:30 - 4:00 Break 4:00 - 5:30 Transcription and annotation Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Feb-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.