LINGUIST List 23.959 Sat Feb 25 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.     Joyce McDonough , Language Documentation Workshop for Undergraduates Message 1: Language Documentation Workshop for Undergraduates Date: 23-Feb-2012 From: Joyce McDonough <joyce.mcdonoughrochester.edu> Subject: Language Documentation Workshop for Undergraduates E-mail this message to a friend Language Documentation Workshop for Undergraduates Date: 23-Mar-2012 - 24-Mar-2012 Location: Rochester, NY, USA Contact: Joyce McDonough Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.ling.rochester.edu/ldp_workshop.html Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation Meeting Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester will hold a Workshop on Language Documentation and Field Linguistics on Friday and Saturday, March 24 - 25, 2012. The Workshop is open to undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in Field Linguistics and Language Documentation. The workshop will consist of four sessions covering topics in the methodologies of language documentation and field linguistics as an introduction to current Language Documentation practices. Registration is open and is limited to the first 40 undergraduate participants. Some travel funding is available. We encourage participation of undergraduate ASL Signers. ASL interpreters can be provided upon request. Please contact Patty Clark at clarkbcs.rochester.edu by 6pm on March, 17, 2012. Interpreters cannot be guaranteed after that date. Language Documentation Workshop for Undergraduates At the University of Rochester March 23-24, 2012 Department of Linguistics University of Rochester Department of Linguistics Lattimore Hall Friday, March 23, 8am - 9pm. Saturday, March 24, 9am - 5pm. Workshop leaders: Claire Bowern, Department of Linguistics, Yale University Joyce McDonough, Department of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester Wilson de Lima Silva, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester Ted Supalla, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, and American Sign Language, University of Rochester The workshop will consist of 2 sessions each day with time for discussion, a Friday evening panel and closing lecture on Saturday. The sessions are: 1. Language Documentation and Fieldwork preparation 2. Elicitation and recording (audio and video) techniques 3. Processing and analysis of collected data (software) 4. Archiving and metadata and data management Panel on Friday evening on the ethics of fieldwork and language documentation, data collection/management and data dissemination. Keynote lecture (Saturday afternoon): 'A practical epistemology for semantic elicitation, in the field and elsewhere' Jürgen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo - SUNY For complete program and registration, go to: http://www.ling.rochester.edu/ldp_workshop.html Registration is limited to the first 40 undergraduate participants. A light lunch will be served on both days. Dinner will be served on Friday. An ongoing lecture series FIELD LINGUISTS is being held in conjunction with this Workshop. For information: http://www.ling.rochester.edu/lecture_series_spring_2012.html Some funding for travel is available. Please contact linguisticsrochester.edu for more information. Funding provided by the NSF and Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-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.