Kawaiisu Conversations and Landscapes: Digital Documentation, Access, and Archiving

卡哇伊苏对话与景观：数字文档、访问和存档

• 批准号: 1160669
• 负责人: Jocelyn Ahlers
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Kawaiisu Language and Cultural Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-15 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1160669&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Kawaiisu; Conversations; Landscapes; Digital; Documentation

Kawaiisu is a critically-endangered Uto-Aztecan language of the Kawaiisu people of California; there are five remaining native speakers, three have been actively engaged in documentation and revitalization projects. Prior documentation of Kawaiisu has typically focused on lexical items and a basic grammatical description of the language. The major gap in the documentation is well-annotated text material, especially natural conversational and narrative data that would shed light on Kawaiisu usage and discourse structure. Moreover, with the exception of a few short videos produced by the Kawaiisu Language and Culture Center, there is essentially no corpus of video footage for Kawaiisu that would facilitate the study of topics such as the co-timing of speech and gestures. This is a critical issue, given the important of such exemplars for language acquisition and for the development and maintenance of a vital linguistic community; it is also time-sensitive, as the development of such a corpus relies on the involvement of the language's elder speakers. This project seeks to remedy this lack, and has four main goals. 1. Working with the elder speakers, create a minimum of 54 hours of audiovisual recordings of conversational and narrative Kawaiisu; 2. Train teams of transcriptionists including community members and linguists in best practices in transcribing, glossing, and translating Kawaiisu. This work will build on the previous successes community members of the project team have had in learning to read and write Kawaiisu using the practical orthography of the Kawaiisu language; 3. Produce high-quality transcriptions, glosses, and translations of a selection of the collected recordings. As the elders have expressed a desire to develop a set of narratives focused on events and places in the Kawaiisu homeland, texts with this focus will be given priority in the project;4. Add 500 new entries with example sentences to the existing dictionary.This project will assist the Kawaiisu, and other speech communities, in their goal to have second language learners achieve higher degree of fluency in their language and create study resources for generations to come. The project results, training program, and use of digital technologies can be duplicated by other native communities with endangered languages.

卡哇伊苏语（Kawaiisu）是加州卡哇伊苏人的一种极度濒危的Uto-Aztecan语言;目前仍有五位母语使用者，其中三位一直积极参与文献整理和复兴项目。 Kawaiisu以前的文档通常集中在词汇项目和语言的基本语法描述上。 文档中的主要差距是经过充分注释的文本材料，特别是自然的对话和叙事数据，这些数据可以揭示Kawaiisu的使用和话语结构。此外，除了几个短视频制作的Kawaiisu语言和文化中心，基本上没有语料库的Kawaiisu的视频素材，将有助于研究的主题，如语音和手势的同步。这是一个至关重要的问题，因为这些范例对于语言习得以及发展和维持一个重要的语言社区至关重要;它也是时间敏感的，因为这样一个语料库的开发依赖于该语言的老年人的参与。 该项目旨在弥补这一不足，并有四个主要目标。 1.与年长的演讲者合作，制作至少54小时的谈话和叙述性的Kawaiisu视听录音; 2.培训转录员团队，包括社区成员和语言学家，掌握转录，注释和翻译Kawaiisu的最佳实践。 这项工作将建立在项目团队的社区成员在使用Kawaiisu语言的实用正字法学习阅读和书写Kawaiisu方面取得的成功之上; 3.制作高质量的transmittance，注释，并选择收集的录音翻译。 由于长老们表示希望开发一套以Kawaiisu家园的事件和地点为重点的叙述，因此该项目将优先考虑这一重点的文本;在现有的词典中添加500个新条目和例句。该项目将帮助Kawaiisu和其他语言社区实现他们的目标，使第二语言学习者能够更流利地使用他们的语言，并为后代创造学习资源。该项目的成果、培训计划和数字技术的使用可以被其他濒危语言的土著社区复制。