Documenting Tlingit (TLI) conversations in Video and Time-Aligned Text

“该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。“特林吉特的出生者在日常生活中使用什么特林吉特对话？未来学习者和科学家们将关注什么样的日常功能性语言记录？特林吉特语（英语：Tlingit language）是纳-德内语系的一个分支，主要分布在阿拉斯加东南部、加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省和育空地区。在核心纳代内语系的45种语言中，有两个分支;特林吉特语是其中之一;所有其他语言都来自另一个分支。大约有200名特林吉特出生讲者，大多数在70多岁和70多岁。在过去两年中，这一群体的死亡率为13%，由于出生说话者的人口正在老龄化，这一比率将加速。特林吉特语普通的日常对话记录很少，但对语言文献至关重要;日常对话是功能性交流的手段。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，爱丽丝·塔夫博士、理查德·L。Dauenhauer和阿拉斯加东南大学的Tlingit教师和学生的项目团队将制作一个带有双语，时间对齐注释的自发Tlingit对话的视频记录，并将结果提供给科学家和语言学习社区。第二项成果将是提高特林吉特语言和识字技能、语言概念知识以及特林吉特语言社区成员在语言文件编制和归档方面的经验，这些社区在语言振兴工作中非常活跃。为了进行录音，出生发言人将在进行日常活动时以两人或两人以上的小组进行录像。然后，由讲出生语的人和学生组成的小组将用特林吉特语转录这些对话，并将其大致翻译成英语。这些视频将后期制作为QuickTime字幕电影，供区域和国际特林吉特语言学习社区使用。该小组将对录音及其转录/翻译进行编目，并将其存档，以供发现和科学分析。社区和科学合作将在工作的各个阶段为项目提供信息，以便尽可能多地记录不同的人，方言，感兴趣的主题和语法形式。信息技术的进步将在项目的所有阶段得到利用。

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."What Tlingit conversations do birth speakers of Tlingit use to carry on their daily lives? What record of daily functional language will learners and scientists look to in the future? The Tlingit language is a branch of the Na-Dene language family indigenous to Southeast Alaska, the interior of British Columbia and Yukon Territory, Canada. Of the 45 languages in the Nuclear Na-Dene language family, there are two branches; Tlingit is one; all the others arise from the other branch. There are approximately 200 Tlingit birth-speakers, most in their 70s and older. During the last two years, this group has suffered a 13% mortality rate, a rate which will accelerate since the population of birth-speakers is aging. Recordings of Tlingit common, everyday conversation, are scant but crucially important for language documentation; everyday conversation is the means of functional communication. We need a record of conversation for analysis, learning, and preservation.With support from the National Science Foundation, Drs. Alice Taff, Richard L. Dauenhauer and the project team of Tlingit faculty and students at the University of Alaska Southeast will produce a video record of spontaneous Tlingit conversation with bilingual, time-aligned annotations, and make the results available to scientists and the language learning community. A second result will be increased Tlingit language and literacy skills, knowledge of linguistic concepts, and experience in language documentation and archiving for members of the Tlingit language community, highly active in its language revitalization efforts. To make recordings, birth speakers will be videoed talking in groups of two or more while carrying out common daily activities. Then teams of birth-speakers and students will transcribe the conversations in Tlingit and broadly translate them into English. The videos will be post-produced as QuickTime subtitled movies for use by the regional and international Tlingit language-learning community. The team will catalogue the recordings with their transcription/translations and archive them for discovery and access for scientific analysis. Community and scientific collaboration will inform the project at all stages of work so that as many different people, dialects, topics of interest, and grammatical forms as possible are documented. Advances in information technology will be exploited in all phases of the project.