Finding a way into a family of tone languages: The story and methods of the Chatino Language Documentation Project

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dc.contributor.authorCruz, Emiliana
dc.contributor.authorWoodbury, Anthony C.
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-10T18:52:44Z
dc.date.available2014-11-10T18:52:44Z
dc.date.issued2014-12
dc.description.abstractWe give a narrative description of our ten-year path into the elaborate tonal systems of the Chatino languages (Otomanguean; Oaxaca, Mexico), and of some of the methods we have used and recommend, illustrated with specific examples. The work, ongoing at the time of writing, began when one of us (Cruz), a native speaker of San Juan Quiahije Chatino, entered the University of Texas at Austin as a Ph.D. student and formed, together with the other of us (Woodbury), a professor there, the Chatino Language Documentation Project, ultimately incorporating five other Ph.D. students and two other senior researchers. We argue for the importance of an interplay among speaker and non-speaker perspectives over the long course of work; a mix of introspection, hypothesis-testing, natural speech recording, transcription, translation, grammatical analysis, and dictionary-making as research methods and activities; an emphasis on community training as an active research context; the simultaneous study of many varieties within a close-knit language family to leverage progress; and the use of historical-comparative methods to get to know tonal systems and the roles they play at a deeper level. *This paper is in the series How to Study a Tone Language, edited by Steven Bird and Larry Hyman
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.identifier.citationCruz, Emiliana and Anthony C Woodbury. 2014. Finding a way into a family of tone languages: The story and methods of the Chatino Language Documentation Project.  Language Documentation & Conservation 8: 490—524
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9856211-2-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/24615
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.titleFinding a way into a family of tone languages: The story and methods of the Chatino Language Documentation Project
dc.typeArticle
prism.endingpage524
prism.publicationnameLanguage Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage490
prism.volume8

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