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

“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。“阿萨帕斯卡尔语，或者说是人们更喜欢的德内语，构成了北美本土最大、地理分布最广的语系。已确定了五个独立的亚组：阿拉斯加、北方内陆（BC/育空地区）、麦肯齐盆地和不连续的太平洋沿海和阿帕奇群岛。由于北美部落人民承受着巨大的经济和社会压力，所有的Dene语言社区都处于危险之中。 流畅性正在迅速消失。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。 该提案寻求资金，用于由部落和学术语言学家和教育工作者小组开发麦肯齐盆地Dene语社区的在线互动语音地图集。 语音地图集将有可点击的链接到地图上列出的Dene社区。 链接到有关该社区声音系统结构的语音属性的信息。其中将包括一份该社区的语音清单，以两种正字法编写，即国际音标和为该社区使用而开发的正字法。将给出例证辅音和元音语音的单词的声音文件。将收集和呈现关于音调和韵律的信息。地图集将提供关于问题和陈述中语调模式的基线信息，展示基本的话语模式。这种方法的一个可取的特点是能够本地化Dene语言数据到一个特定的社区，反映了Dene识别自己的方式（语言身份是强烈的社区为基础的），并强调跨语言的变化和稳定性的特点小，往往孤立的Dene社区在这一领域。Dene Speech Atlas项目将通过小组与每年夏天在埃德蒙顿的阿尔伯塔大学举行的加拿大土著语言和识字发展研究所的持续联系，促进研究和教育的一体化。该研究所致力于在语言分析和语言文献方面培训土著语言的使用者，吸引来自加拿大北方各地土著社区的使用者，Dene语音地图集将为Dene土著社区和其他希望比较姐妹语言的语音模式和拼写习惯的人提供服务。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。这些信息将被加上地理标记，使其能够通过KML链接与互联网地图系统（如Google Earth）相关联。它还将使其他适当类型的材料，如词汇和旧文本，与社区联系起来。 该地图集将使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得到审查。最后，语言固有的口头性质，突出了我们收集和建立口语语料库的能力的提高，使我们更加认识到理解语音背后的系统模式的重要性。这种语音记录在口头文化中是非常重要的，这些社区的知识基础必然在于口头表演，而这种记录即使能找到，也是稀少的。

"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.