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Bringing Psycholinguistics to the Field: Experiences from Solomon Islands
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Åshild Næss; Sebastian Sauppe – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
The world's linguistic diversity is severely underrepresented in research on cognitive and neural aspects of language processing, with great consequences for our understanding of the relationship between language, cognition, and the human brain. The practical challenges of carrying out neurophysiological (but also behavioral) experiments under…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Research, Foreign Countries, Documentation
Methodological Problems in Reclaiming Nuu-Wee-Ya' from Archival Materials: The Case of Verbal Prefix Semantics
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Jaeci Nel Hall – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
The purpose of this research is to support the language revitalization and reclamation of Nuu-wee-ya', a Dene language from Southern Oregon and Northern California, and to contribute to the discussions on methodological particularities of archive-based research for language revitalization. Nuu-wee-ya' is a sleeping language comprising three…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Semantics, Language Research, Documentation
River Walks, Reef Dives, and Rapid Word Collection: Documenting Linguistic and Environmental Knowledge with Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Methods
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Christine Schreyer; Ken Longenecker; John Wagner – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
The lives of Kala people are deeply intertwined with marine and riparian environments on which their livelihoods depend. To document linguistic and environmental knowledge in these communities, as part of our community-based, collaborative language documentation project, we utilized three main interdisciplinary documentation methods: (1) River…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Marine Biology, Video Technology, Language Maintenance
Type Right: Examining the Underlying Causes of Common Typeface and Font Errors for Indigenous Orthographies, and a Possible Path Forward
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Julia Schillo; Mark Turin – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
Despite considerable typographical innovations over the past twenty years that have enabled and facilitated typing capabilities for many Indigenous language orthographies, typographical errors continue to disproportionately affect Indigenous languages. These include errors in glyph shapes, which impact legibility, and issues with glyph…
Descriptors: Layout (Publications), Semantics, Language Research, Written Language
SCOPIC Design and Overview
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Barth, Danielle; Evans, Nicholas – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
This paper provides an overview of the design and motivation for creating the Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC), an open-ended, accessible corpus that balances the need for language-specific annotation with typologically-calibrated markup. SCOPIC provides richly annotated data, focusing on functional categories relevant to social…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Documentation, Social Cognition, Data
Single-Event Rapid Word Collection Workshops: Efficient, Effective, Empowering
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Boerger, Brenda H.; Stutzman, Verna – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2018
In this paper we describe single-event Rapid Word Collection (RWC) workshop results in 12 languages, and compare these results to fieldwork lexicons collected by other means. We show that this methodology of collecting words by semantic domain by community engagement leads to obtaining more words in less time than conventional collection methods.…
Descriptors: Workshops, Language Maintenance, Language Research, Contrastive Linguistics