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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"language documentation"”.
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Berne, Indiana Swiss German: Lessons learned from a small-scale documentation project
… thesis presents a case study of a small-scale language documentation project carried out in Berne, Indiana. The goal of this project was to capture, through audio recording, samples of the Swiss German language that could be presented to the Berne community and preserved for future use. As much …
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An Interlinear Analysis of Seven Kalispel Texts From Hans Vogt
… providing data for further research on the language and for language documentation and preservation purposes. The thesis includes an introductory section with background and methodology, the interlinearized texts, and a list of stems, affixes, and roots occurring in the texts.
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An Interlinear Analysis of Seven Kalispel Texts From Hans Vogt
… providing data for further research on the language and for language documentation and preservation purposes. The thesis includes an introductory section with background and methodology, the interlinearized texts, and a list of stems, affixes, and roots occurring in the texts.
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The organization of turn-taking in fieldwork settings: A case study
… interviews, encouraging overlap for the native language consultant to ensure accuracy of language data and transcription. Moreover, turn-taking system present in these fieldwork exchanges is dependent on both the sociocultural background of each speaker as well as their respective roles in …
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A Phonological Sketch of the Kufo Language
… Africa is well-known, but understandings of the languages in some regions, such as the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, remain extremely limited. There are many open questions regarding the linguistic relationships and genetic affiliation of languages in the Nuba Mountains, and there have been few …
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A Phonological Sketch of the Kufo Language
… Africa is well-known, but understandings of the languages in some regions, such as the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, remain extremely limited. There are many open questions regarding the linguistic relationships and genetic affiliation of languages in the Nuba Mountains, and there have been few …
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Code-Switching and Language Ideology in a Northern Dene Community
… with the bodies of scholarly literature on the language and language family, and on code-switching and language shift, provide the background and context for this study. A fusion of linguistic (language documentation and conversation analysis), ethnographic (participant observation) and …
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Dialect variation in a cross-border language: a sociolinguistic study of Silozi in Zambia and Namibia
… speakers (Luyi) in Barotseland. Today the language is spoken by over 700 000 people in Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Angola and Zimbabwe collectively. Of the wealth of scholarship on the Malozi and their language, most focused on development and structure. Silozi dialect variation is yet to be …
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Linguistic poetic and rhetoric of Eastern Chatino of San Juan Quiahije
… art in the SJQ variety of Eastern Chatino, a language which belongs to the Chatino group in the Zapotecan branch of the Otomanguean stock. There is a wide range of discourse genres practiced in the community including prayers, persuasive talk, political speeches, narrative, jokes, and everyday …
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Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World
This thesis presents work in two areas; Language Technology and Linguistic Typology. In the field of Language Technology, a specific problem is addressed: Can a computer extract a description of word conjugation in a natural language using only written text in the language? The problem is often …
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A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu)
A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu) offers a description of the endangered and previously undocumented Ahamb language spoken by around 950 people. This grammatical description is one of the main outcomes of the Ahamb Language Documentation Project, which involved over 8 months of data …
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Rethinking decreolization: Language contact and change in Louisiana Creole
All languages change. Creoles are no exception. However, do creoles change in the same ways as other languages? Research on language change in creoles has hinged on the notion of decreolization: apparently a ‘special case’ of contact-induced change whereby the creole adverges to the lexifier …
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Algerian Jewish Sign Language: its emergence and survival
… thesis is concerned with Algerian Jewish Sign Language (AJSL) and the Algerian Jewish Sign Language community. AJSL developed naturally in the Jewish quarter of Ghardaia, a town in the sub-Saharan part of Algeria. A high percentage of deaf people lived in this quarter, and because of that a …
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Komnzo: A language of Southern New Guinea
… provides an introduction to Komnzo, a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea. Komnzo is spoken by around 200 people in the village of Rouku and a couple of adjacent hamlets. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. …
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Komnzo: A language of Southern New Guinea
… provides an introduction to Komnzo, a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea. Komnzo is spoken by around 200 people in the village of Rouku and a couple of adjacent hamlets. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. …