Mohave and Chemehuevi Language Documentation Project

Mohave 和 Chemehuevi 语言文档项目

• 批准号: 0505209
• 负责人: Natasha Warner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0505209&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mohave; Chemehuevi; Language; Documentation; Project

Linguists estimate that within the next century, at least half of the world's indigenous languages will be lost. Drawing on her many years of experience with the Colorado River Indian Tribes of Arizona, Dr. Susan Penfield will direct a research team working in close collaboration with tribal members to add substantially to the existing linguistic data for two highly endangered languages spoken in this community: Mohave [estimated 35 speakers] and Chemehuevi [estimated 5-7 speakers]. This project will also address the question: How can electronic documentation be used and controlled by indigenous communities as a vehicle for language preservation? This research will define the model needed to shift more of the responsibility for indigenous language documentation to the communities where these languages are spoken. The project will focus on the video and audio documentation of conversational practices and recorded narrative in both languages, provide training for tribal members in technology-based documentation and descriptive linguistics, use collected data to construct language lessons supporting the tribes' goal of language revitalization, make digital text, audio and video databases and develop a standard set of protocols for indigenous community use in defining issues of public access related to these digital archives and databases.The broader impacts of this project will increase the general understanding of the process video documentation for endangered languages, add to the linguistic database for Yuman [Mohave] and Southern Numic [Chemehuevi] language families, evaluate the use of technology for on-line fieldwork, provide digital archives of linguistic data for public use and generate guidelines for indigenous communities regarding public access to digitally archived tribal resources. This project builds on previous work which resulted in a handbook for tribal members titled, Technology-Enhanced Language Revitalization (Penfield, Cash Cash & Roberts, 2004). A similar handbook focused on language documentation will result from the present project. In addition, a curriculum will be developed for a course on indigenous language documentation to be offered at the American Indian Language Development Institute, held annually in Tucson, Arizona.

语言学家估计，在下个世纪内，世界上至少一半的土著语言将消失。 凭借在亚利桑那州科罗拉多河印第安部落的多年经验，Susan Penfield 博士将指导一个研究团队与部落成员密切合作，大幅增加该社区使用的两种高度濒危语言的现有语言数据：Mohave [估计有 35 位使用者] 和 Chemehuevi [估计有 5-7 位使用者]。 该项目还将解决以下问题：土著社区如何使用和控制电子文档作为语言保护的工具？这项研究将定义将土著语言文献的更多责任转移给使用这些语言的社区所需的模型。该项目将重点关注两种语言的对话实践和录制叙述的视频和音频记录，为部落成员提供基于技术的记录和描述性语言学方面的培训，使用收集的数据构建支持部落语言振兴目标的语言课程，制作数字文本、音频和视频数据库，并制定一套标准协议供土著社区使用，以定义与这些数字档案和数据库相关的公共访问问题。 该项目将增进对濒危语言过程视频记录的普遍了解，添加到尤曼[Mohave]和南努米克[Chemehuevi]语系的语言数据库，评估在线实地工作的技术使用情况，提供语言数据的数字档案供公众使用，并为土著社区制定关于公众获取数字存档部落资源的指南。该项目以之前的工作为基础，该工作为部落成员编写了一本名为“技术增强的语言复兴”的手册（Penfield、Cash Cash 和 Roberts，2004 年）。当前项目将产生一本类似的侧重于语言文档的手册。此外，还将为美洲印第安人语言发展学院每年在亚利桑那州图森举办的土著语言文献课程开发课程。