An Interactive Speech Atlas of Dene Speaking Communities in the Mackenzie Basin (693-3)

麦肯齐盆地德内语社区的交互式语音图集 (693-3)

• 批准号: 0853929
• 负责人: Joyce McDonough
• 金额: $ 20.17万
• 依托单位: University of Rochester
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0853929&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interactive; Speech; Atlas; Dene; Speaking

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."The Athapascan or, as speakers prefer, Dene languages constitute the largest and most geographically widespread language family of native North America. Five separate sub-groupings have been identified: Alaskan, Northern Interior (BC/Yukon), Mackenzie Basin, and the non-continuous Pacific Coastal and Apachean groups. All of the Dene speech communities are endangered through the enormous economic and social pressures that weight on tribal people throughout North America. Fluency is rapidly disappearing. However, the Dene communities are aware of their fragility and many are actively working with linguists to document their languages. This proposal seeks funding for the development of a online interactive speech atlas of the Dene speaking communities in the Mackenzie Basin by team of tribal and academic linguists and educators. The Speech Atlas will have clickable links to the Dene speaking communities listed on the map. The links to information about the properties of speech that underlie structure of the sound system in that community. These will include a list of the inventory of speech sounds for that community, written in two orthographies, the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the orthography developed for use in that community. Sound files of words exemplifying the consonant and vowel speech sounds will be given. Information on tone and prosody will be collected and presented. The Atlas will make available baseline information on intonation patterns in questions and statements, demonstrating basic discourse patterns. A desirable feature of this approach is the ability to localize Dene language data to a specific community, reflecting the way the Dene identify themselves (linguistic identity is strongly community-based) and highlighting points of variation and stability across the languages of the characteristically small and often isolated Dene communities in this area. The Dene Speech Atlas project will foster integration of research and education through the teams' ongoing associations to CILLDI (Canadian Indigenous Language and Literacy Development Institute), held at University of Alberta, Edmonton every summer. The Institute is devoted to training speakers of indigenous languages in linguistic analysis and language documentation, drawing speakers from indigenous communities all over northern Canada.The Dene Speech Atlas will serve the indigenous Dene communities and others, who wish to compare sound patterns and orthographic conventions across the sister languages. The map-based approach allows linguistic material to be the organized in a new way highly suitable to the Dene communities. The information will be geo-tagged, permitting it to be associated to internet map systems such as Google Earth through KML links. It will also allow other suitable types of material, such as lexicons and older texts, to be associated to the community. The Atlas will allow speech phenomena such as rhythm and meter, prosody and sound in these communities to be examined as primary sources. Finally, the inherently oral nature of language, highlighted by our increased ability to collect and build spoken word corpora, has led to an enhanced awareness of the importance of understanding the systematic patterns that underlie speech. Such phonetic documentation is exceptionally essential in oral cultures, where the knowledge base of these communities necessarily lies in oral performance and where such documentation is sparse, if it is found at all.

“这项奖励是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。”阿萨帕斯坎人的语言，或者如说话者喜欢的那样，构成了北美本土最大、地理上分布最广的语系。已经确定了五个独立的亚群：阿拉斯加、北部内陆（不列颠哥伦比亚省/育空地区）、麦肯齐盆地，以及不连续的太平洋沿岸和阿帕契亚群。所有的Dene语言社区都面临着巨大的经济和社会压力，这些压力重压着整个北美的部落人民。流利度正在迅速消失。然而，Dene社区意识到他们的脆弱性，许多人正在积极与语言学家合作，记录他们的语言。该提案寻求资助，由部落和学术语言学家和教育家组成的团队开发麦肯齐盆地Dene社区的在线交互式语音地图集。演讲地图集将有可点击的链接，链接到地图上列出的讲丹尼语的社区。链接到该社区的声音系统结构基础上的语言属性信息。这将包括一份该社区的语音清单，用两种正字法书写，一种是国际音标，另一种是为该社区开发的正字法。将提供辅音和元音发音的单词声音文件。将收集并呈现音调和韵律方面的信息。该图集将提供问题和陈述句语调模式的基线信息，展示基本的话语模式。这种方法的一个理想特点是能够将Dene语言数据本地化到特定社区，反映Dene人自我识别的方式（语言身份强烈以社区为基础），并突出该地区典型的小型且经常孤立的Dene社区的语言的变化和稳定性。Dene语言地图集项目将促进研究和教育的整合，通过团队正在进行的CILLDI（加拿大土著语言和扫盲发展研究所）协会，每年夏天在埃德蒙顿的阿尔伯塔大学举行。该研究所致力于在语言分析和语言文件编制方面培训土著语言使用者，从加拿大北部各地的土著社区吸收发言者。迪尼语地图集将为土著迪尼社区和其他希望比较姐妹语言的声音模式和正字法惯例的人提供服务。基于地图的方法允许语言材料以一种非常适合Dene社区的新方式组织。这些信息将被标记为地理位置，使其能够通过KML链接与谷歌Earth等互联网地图系统相关联。它还将允许其他适当类型的材料，如词典和旧文本，与社区相关联。该地图集将允许将这些社区的节奏和韵律、韵律和声音等语言现象作为主要来源进行检查。最后，我们收集和建立口语语料库的能力不断增强，凸显了语言固有的口语性质，这使我们更加意识到理解构成语言的系统模式的重要性。这种语音记录在口头文化中尤为重要，因为这些社区的知识基础必然依赖于口头表演，而这种记录很少，如果有的话。