Conference on Documenting Indigenous Languages to Enhance Phonological and Phonetic Theories and to Improve Broader Impacts

记录土著语言以增强音系和语音理论并提高更广泛影响的会议

• 批准号: 1746391
• 负责人: John Kingston
• 金额: $ 2.62万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1746391&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Documenting; Indigenous; Languages; Enhance

An important dimension of language is the sound system and patterns of a given language. In fact, languages like English and Spanish include only a subset of the possible sounds of consonants, vowels, and the different ways they can combine. A greater understanding of what humans can produce and perceive in terms of sounds (phonetics) and how these sounds are organized and patterned (phonology) relies on investigation, documentation, and analysis of languages with different sounds and patterns than English and Spanish. This project will enable a conference to increase scientific understanding of how humans produce, perceive, and organize the phonetics and phonology of these diverse languages, focusing on a geographic region well-known for both its diversity and the urgent need to document this linguistic diversity in the face of language endangerment.The goal of this project is to bring together indigenous and non-indigenous experts who study the linguistic diversity of the languages of Mexico and Central America. This workshop, the third iteration of "Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America (SSMCA 3)" will be held in October, 2018 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Speakers will present scientific findings of the under-described and under-analyzed sound systems of the diverse languages of this part of the world. Besides plenary presentations from invited speakers, contributed presentations, and posters, the conference will include two roundtables. The first roundtable is devoted to discussing effective means of fostering collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous scholars. The language sciences have seen tremendous intellectual advancement with the training of speakers of indigenous languages as linguists; this will seek to continue that advancement with a focus on phonetics and phonology. The second roundtable is focused on a broader impact of many language documentation projects, and will present effective means of translating language documentation into pedagogical materials that can be used in the schools to develop and promote literacy in indigenous languages and to maintain their use in indigenous communities. Additionally, SSMCA 3 will have four broader impacts: (1) promoting scholarly interaction and collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous linguists in the task of documenting indigenous languages, (2) advancing the documentation of the un-described and under-described languages of Mexico and Central America, (3) publicizing the value of maintaining the indigenous languages of Mexico and Central America and the necessity of incorporating their use into public education, and (4) providing open access to all the presentations and materials from the conference online to any interested person.

语言的一个重要维度是给定语言的声音系统和模式。 事实上，像英语和西班牙语这样的语言只包含辅音、元音及其不同组合方式的可能声音的子集。 要更好地理解人类可以产生和感知的声音（语音学）以及这些声音如何组织和模式（音系学），需要对具有与英语和西班牙语不同的声音和模式的语言进行调查、记录和分析。 该项目将使一次会议能够增进对人类如何产生、感知和组织这些不同语言的语音和音系学的科学理解，重点关注以其多样性而闻名的地理区域以及记录这种语言多样性的迫切需要。该项目的目标是汇集研究墨西哥和中美洲语言多样性的土著和非土著专家。 本次研讨会是“墨西哥和中美洲音响系统 (SSMCA 3)”的第三次迭代，将于 2018 年 10 月在马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校举行。演讲者将介绍有关世界这一地区各种语言的声音系统的科学发现，这些声音系统未被充分描述和分析。除了受邀演讲者的全体会议、贡献的演讲和海报之外，会议还将包括两场圆桌会议。第一场圆桌会议致力于讨论促进土著和非土著学者之间合作的有效方法。 随着将土著语言的使用者培训为语言学家，语言科学取得了巨大的智力进步；这将力求继续这一进步，重点是语音学和音系学。 第二次圆桌会议重点讨论许多语言文献项目的更广泛影响，并将提出将语言文献转化为教学材料的有效方法，这些材料可在学校使用，以发展和促进土著语言的识字能力，并维持其在土著社区的使用。此外，SSMCA 3 将产生四个更广泛的影响：(1) 促进土著和非土著语言学家之间在记录土著语言的任务中的学术互动和合作，(2) 推进对未描述和未充分描述的语言的记录墨西哥和中美洲，(3) 宣传维护墨西哥和中美洲土著语言的价值以及将其使用纳入公共教育的必要性，以及 (4) 在线提供会议所有演示文稿和材料的开放获取任何感兴趣的人。