EuropeanDialect Syntax: Towards an infrastructure for documentation and research of endangered dialects

Barbiers, Sjef

doi:10.1017/cbo9781107279063.005

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“…Three Mapuche cultural authorities, bilingual speakers of Mapudungun/Spanish, were interviewed in the local language in this phase of the project. According to Barbiers (2015), such interviews should be performed in the local dialect to obtain spontaneous speech on topics that the speakers would normally discuss, such as family life, local celebrations, customs and aspects of everyday life. The bilingual interview method makes the native speakers aware of the concepts of semantic fields and different word classes as well as the grammatical structure of the language (Mosel, 2006).…”

Section: Stage 1: Model Design and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology’s role in Mapudungun language teaching and revitalization

Llancao

2019

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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The Mapudungun language spoken by the Mapuche people in southern Chile is one of the thousands of severely endangered languages in the world today. Despite efforts by the Mapuche people to support it, the language remains threatened. The study reported here is part of an effort to more effectively support the revitalization of Mapudungun aimed at developing a community- and technology-based model for the teaching of the language. The study was divided into two stages: first, the design and development of the model; second, the evaluation of the model based on quasi-experimental research with a pre-test and a post-test. Then, the participants were surveyed to obtain information regarding their beliefs toward the use of technology in the teaching–learning process of Mapudungun. The study’s results indicate that technology can facilitate Mapuche language learning and revitalization.

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Section: Stage 1: Model Design and Developmentmentioning

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Technology’s role in Mapudungun language teaching and revitalization

Llancao

2019

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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“…Moreover, it does not address the archiving problem since the corpus is essentially kept in CWB vertical format, rather than a standard XML format of some sorts. Other, more specialized tools are likewise too complex to handle for a small dialectological group; these include the tools developed by the Czech national corpus project for the DIALEKT and ORTOFON corpora (Kopřivová et al, 2014), or the Edisyn interface (Barbiers, 2015).…”

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“…In the design of SpoCo, we aim to cover the ground between complex, one-size-fits-all interfaces, such as GLOSSA, ANNIS, or CQPWeb (Hardie, 2012) on the one hand, and specialized corpus interfaces on the other hand, such as Edisyn Barbiers (2015) and many other in-house solutions that are never released to the general public as software.…”

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SpoCo – a simple and adaptable web interface for dialect corpora

Waldenfels¹,

Woźniak²

2016

JLCL

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We present SpoCo, a simple, yet effective system for the web-based query of dialect corpora encoded in ELAN that provides users with advanced concordancing functions, as well as the the possibility to edit and correct transcriptions if needed. SpoCo is easy to use and maintain, and can be adapted to different spoken corpora in a straightforward way. Simplicity is emphasized to facilitate use by a wide range of users and research groups, including those with limited technical and financial resources, and encourage collaboration and data exchange across such groups. Relying on existing technology and pursuing a modular architecture, SpoCo is developed bottom-up: it was initially devised for a specific dialect project and is being continually adapted for use in other projects in a network of Slavic dialect projects that cooperate in tool development and data sharing. SpoCo thus takes a middle position between systems that are developed for the purposes of a specific dialect corpus, on the one hand, and general-use systems designed for a wide range of data and usage cases, on the other.

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“…Pauwels 1958 andBarbiers 2015) but also by speakers of related varieties that do not have these properties. (Morpho-)syntactic properties therefore potentially are determining factors in a LADO-procedure, as a speaker trying to imitate a variety will typically omit (morpho-)syntactic properties that are below the level of consciousness.…”

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Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora

Corrigan¹,

Mearns²

2016

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Recent years have seen an increase in the on--line availability of dialect corpora, databases and search, analysis and visualisation tools (cf. www.dialectsyntax.org). Although primarily intended for linguistic research, this infrastructure provides rich resources for courses on sociolinguistics, dialectology, formal linguistics and linguistic methodology. This paper demonstrates the usefulness of the Dutch linguistic microvariation research tool MIMORE (www.meertens.knaw.nl/mimore) for a course in applied linguistics, more specifically on Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO). LADO is used in asylum procedures as a means to determine whether an asylum seeker originates from the country or area that s/he claims to originate from. It is a task of linguists to make clear if and how LADO can be a valid method, and what kind of linguistic expertise is needed. MIMORE contains three databases with (morpho--)syntactic and (morpho--)phonological data from a large number of locations in the Dutch language area. The paper describes how the MIMORE data and tools have been used in the course as training material, to introduce students to the different levels of language variation, to teach them how to recognize linguistic differences and make these explicit and to show them the complications involved in using linguistic properties to locate speakers.

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EuropeanDialect Syntax: Towards an infrastructure for documentation and research of endangered dialects

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Technology’s role in Mapudungun language teaching and revitalization

Technology’s role in Mapudungun language teaching and revitalization

SpoCo – a simple and adaptable web interface for dialect corpora

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora

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