Finding a way into a family of tone languages: The story and methods of the Chatino Language Documentation Project
Finding a way into a family of tone languages: The story and methods of the Chatino Language Documentation Project
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寻找进入声调语言家族的方法：Chatino 语言文档项目的故事和方法
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2014
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Anthony C. Woodbury
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作者：
Emiliana Cruz;Anthony C. Woodbury
我们叙述了十年来研究查特诺语言（Otomanguean; Oaxaca, Mexico）复杂的音调系统的历程，以及我们使用和推荐的一些方法，并给出了具体的例子。在撰写本文时，这项工作仍在进行中。我们中的一个人（克鲁兹）以圣胡安·基亚希耶·查特诺语为母语，作为博士生进入德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校，并与我们中的另一个人（伍德伯里）一起成立了查特诺语言文档项目（Chatino Language Documentation Project），最终纳入了其他五名博士生和另外两名高级研究员。我们认为在长期的工作过程中，说话者和非说话者的观点之间相互作用的重要性；将内省，假设检验，自然语音记录，转录，翻译，语法分析和词典制作作为研究方法和活动的组合；强调社区培训作为积极的研究背景；同时学习一个紧密联系的语系中的许多变体，以促进进步；以及使用历史比较方法来了解音调系统及其在更深层次上所扮演的角色。
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.