Basic oral language documentation

Reiman, D. Will

Basic oral language documentation

dc.contributor.author	Reiman, D. Will
dc.date.accessioned	2010-12-20T03:03:03Z
dc.date.available	2010-12-20T03:03:03Z
dc.date.issued	2010-12
dc.description.abstract	Since at least 1992, when Michael Krauss presented the topic of language endangerment in Language, linguists have been wrestling with the problem that languages are disappearing from the earth faster than they can be satisfactorily documented. This paper advocates a methodology for documenting languages that minimizes the use of high-cost means of recording comments on recorded language data (written annotation), focusing instead on making low-cost means (oral annotation) more effective. I present here a brief history of the origins of the method, detail how the annotation process is executed, and evaluate its effectiveness in several dimensions. Finally, since it is an emerging technique, I will also discuss the directions in which the research on this methodology ought to develop.
dc.description.sponsorship	National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent	15 pages
dc.identifier.citation	Reiman, D. Will. 2010. Basic oral language documentation. Language Documentation & Conservation 4. 254-268.
dc.identifier.issn	1934-5275
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4479
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	University of Hawai'i Press
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
dc.rights.cc	Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
dc.rights.cccode	by-nc-nd-nsa
dc.subject	oral language documentation
dc.subject	oral annotation
dc.title	Basic oral language documentation
dc.type	Article
dc.type.dcmi	Text
prism.endingpage	268
prism.publicationname	Language Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage	254
prism.volume	4