Intellectual Merits Symposium
Participants will host a symposium on Friday, January 3 from 9:00-10:30 in room Chart A.
These NSF-sponsored events will bring together scholars, students, and community members representing language documentation research projects funded by the National Science Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Documenting Endangered Languages Program (DEL) in order to participate in three organized sessions at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Since its inception in 2003, DEL (which is now NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL),has funded hundreds of institutes and conferences, fellowships, and doctoral dissertations. These events will offer opportunities for reflection on significant achievements from DEL projects in the past fifteen years, and for discussion about what directions documentation, archival preservation, and revitalization projects should take for the future.These events will complement LSA-organized celebrations of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages.
Intellectual Merits Symposium:
Friday, Jan. 3, 9am-10.30am
Room: Chart A
A brief introduction to DEL: reflections on the intellectual merit of language documentation
Keren Rice
Speaking through music: The role of balafon surrogate speech in documentation and analysis of Seenku
Laura McPherson
Phonetics and DEL: experimental methods and tools for endangered language corpora
Christian DiCanio
Experimental methods in documenting multilingualism and change
Lenore A. Grenoble
What is DEL and what is it good for?
Gary Holton
Friday, January 3, 10:30-12
Room: St. James’ Ballroom
AGGREGATION: Building Computational Resources Automatically from IGT
Emily M. Bender, Joshua Crowgey, Michael Wayne Goodman, Kristen Howell, Haley Lepp, Fei Xia, and Olga Zamaraeva
Individual-based socio-spatcial networks and multilingual repertoires
Jeff Good
Kani’aina, Voices of the Land: A DEL/TCUP-funded digital repository for spoken ‘Olelo Hawai’i
Larry Kimura, Danielle Yarbrough
Zapotec Talking Dictionaries: DEL impact in creating resources, supporting language activists, & educating undergraduates
Brook Lillehaugen, Felipe Lopez, Savita Deo
Kala Walo Nua: Collaborating across communities and disciplines through the documentation of the Kala language in aquatic environments
Christine Schreyer
DEL and ANLC build bridges-Texts, dictionary, grammar, archives, and CoLang 2016
Siri Tuttle
Rewards and Challenges of Long-Term Collaboration: 15 years in Konomerume (and counting!)
Racquel-Maria Sapien and Chief Ferdinand Mandé:
Sunday, January 5, 9-12 pm
Room: Chart B
Reflections on the Broader Impacts of Language Documentation Research
Shobhana Chelliah
How Endangered Language Programs can broaden participation in science
Angiachi Demetris Esene Agwara
We Were Once One People: A Comparative Ethnobotany of the Pai Languages
Carrie Cannon
Towards Karuk Community Language Scholar Archives Development
Susan Gehr
Documenting Pakistan’s Endangered and Low Resource Languages: Towards Building Infrastructure and Capacity
Sadaf Munshi
Training and Empowerment: Documentation for, with, and by community members
Racquel-Maria Sapien and Chief Ferdinand Mandé
PIs as Public Stewards: Broadening the Impact of Publicly-Funded Research
Mary S. Linn