OLAC Record oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/24615

Metadata
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
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
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
OLAC Info
Archive:		Language Documentation and Conservation
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/ldc.scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/24615
DateStamp:		2024-09-16
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Cruz, Emiliana; Woodbury, Anthony C. 2014. University of Hawai'i Press.