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Jennifer Green; Eleanor Jorgensen – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
To date, studies that investigate lexical overlap in signed languages have mainly considered the relationships between deaf community signed languages. The alternate sign languages of Indigenous Australia provide an opportunity to take another perspective -- they are perhaps amongst the oldest known sign languages in the world, their main users…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Countries
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Mansfield, John; Stanford, James – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
Documenting sociolinguistic variation in lesser-studied languages presents methodological challenges, but also offers important research opportunities. In this paper we examine three key methodological challenges commonly faced by researchers who are outsiders to the community. We then present practical solutions for successful variationist…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Indigenous Populations, Language Research