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Title: | Finding a way into a family of tone languages: The story and methods of the Chatino Language Documentation Project | |
Bibliographic Citation: | Cruz, Emiliana, Woodbury, Anthony C.; 2014-12; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24615. | |
Creator: | Cruz, Emiliana | |
Woodbury, Anthony C. | ||
Date (W3CDTF): | 2014-12 | |
Description: | We 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 | |
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Identifier: | Cruz, 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 | |
978-0-9856211-2-4 | ||
Identifier (URI): | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24615 | |
Publisher: | University of Hawai'i Press | |
Rights: | Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License | |
Table Of Contents: | CruzWoodbury.pdf | |
CruzWoodbury_nomedia.pdf | ||
Cruz-Woodbury audio.zip | ||
Type: | Article | |
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Citation: | Cruz, Emiliana; Woodbury, Anthony C. 2014. University of Hawai'i Press. |