Building Tone Resources for Second Language Learners from Phonetic Documentation: Cherokee Examples

dc.contributor.author Hirata-Edds, Tracy
dc.contributor.author Herrick, Dylan
dc.date.accessioned 2017-11-11T07:55:35Z
dc.date.available 2017-11-11T07:55:35Z
dc.date.issued 2017-11
dc.description.abstract Lexical tone is a linguistic feature which can present difficulties for second language learners wanting to revitalize their heritage language. This is true not only from the standpoint of understanding and pronunciation, but also because tone is often under-documented and resources are limited or too technical to be useful to community members. Even with these challenges, carefully attending to the intricacies of a language’s sound system allows learners to express themselves more “authentically” or “naturally,” which can be important for confidence and acceptance as language users. Learners can be trained to distinguish tones by attending to acoustic or auditory cues related to tone (e.g., pitch contour). This paper describes multimedia resources designed to focus learner attention on perceiving tone -- visual and audio accompaniments helping to increase the perception of tone in Cherokee, a severely endangered Native American language. We created resources for tone in the form of an electronic presentation containing explanations, example recordings, and intuitive images to provide audio and visual support for language learners. Presentation and format choices were collaboratively designed based on community requests, with an explicit attempt to de-jargonize materials and make them less technical and more accessible to community members. en_US
dc.format.extent 16 pages en_US
dc.identifier.citation Hirata-Edds, Tracy & Dylan Herrick. 2017. Building tone resources for second language learners from phonetic documentation: Cherokee examples. Language Documentation & Conservation 11: 289-304. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1934-5275
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24737
dc.language.iso en-US en_US
dc.publisher University of Hawaii Press en_US
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International en_US
dc.subject Cherokee language en_US
dc.subject language documentation en_US
dc.subject second language learning en_US
dc.subject tone en_US
dc.title Building Tone Resources for Second Language Learners from Phonetic Documentation: Cherokee Examples en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.type.dcmi Text en_US
prism.endingpage 304 en_US
prism.startingpage 289 en_US
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