LINGUIST List 23.959
Sat Feb 25 2012
Confs: Language Documentation/USA
Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett
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Date: 23-Feb-2012
From: Joyce McDonough <joyce.mcdonough
rochester.edu>
Subject: Language Documentation Workshop for Undergraduates
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Language Documentation Workshop for Undergraduates
Date: 23-Mar-2012 - 24-Mar-2012
Location: Rochester, NY, USA
Contact: Joyce McDonough
Contact Email:
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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 aWorkshop on Language Documentation and Field Linguistics on Fridayand Saturday, March 24 - 25, 2012. The Workshop is open toundergraduate and graduate students with an interest in FieldLinguistics and Language Documentation. The workshop will consistof four sessions covering topics in the methodologies of languagedocumentation and field linguistics as an introduction to currentLanguage Documentation practices. Registration is open and is limitedto the first 40 undergraduate participants. Some travel funding isavailable. We encourage participation of undergraduate ASL Signers.ASL interpreters can be provided upon request. Please contact PattyClark at clark
bcs.rochester.edu by 6pm on March, 17, 2012.Interpreters cannot be guaranteed after that date.
Language Documentation Workshop for UndergraduatesAt the University of RochesterMarch 23-24, 2012Department of LinguisticsUniversity of Rochester
Department of LinguisticsLattimore HallFriday, March 23, 8am - 9pm. Saturday, March 24, 9am - 5pm.
Workshop leaders:
Claire Bowern, Department of Linguistics, Yale UniversityJoyce McDonough, Department of Linguistics and Brain & CognitiveSciences, University of RochesterWilson de Lima Silva, Department of Linguistics, University ofRochesterTed Supalla, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, and American SignLanguage, University of Rochester
The workshop will consist of 2 sessions each day with time fordiscussion, a Friday evening panel and closing lecture on Saturday. Thesessions are:
1. Language Documentation and Fieldwork preparation2. Elicitation and recording (audio and video) techniques3. Processing and analysis of collected data (software)4. Archiving and metadata and data management
Panel on Friday evening on the ethics of fieldwork and languagedocumentation, data collection/management and data dissemination.
Keynote lecture (Saturday afternoon):
'A practical epistemology for semantic elicitation, in the field andelsewhere'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 onFriday.
An ongoing lecture series FIELD LINGUISTS is being held in conjunctionwith this Workshop. For information:
http://www.ling.rochester.edu/lecture_series_spring_2012.html Some funding for travel is available. Please contactlinguistics
rochester.edu for more information.
Funding provided by the NSF and Department of Linguistics, Universityof Rochester
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