Enhancing linguistic infrastructure through the documentation of conversational expression of an endangered language

通过记录濒危语言的对话表达来加强语言基础设施

• 批准号: 1953793
• 负责人: Russell King
• 金额: $ 31.49万
• 依托单位: Sealaska Heritage Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-11-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1953793&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; linguistic; infrastructure; through; documentation

Worldwide, Indigenous and minority languages are experiencing rapid decline in daily use and number of speakers. Xaad Kíl, Northern Haida (hdn), an Indigenous language of coastal Southeast Alaska and northern British Columbia, Canada, has only six remaining fluent speakers. While Haida grammars and dictionaries exist, most sources do not document language use in conversational daily life, and none provide audio-visual documentation. This project documents Alaskan and Canadian elders conversing in this endangered language. Recorded conversation will demonstrate how speakers express politeness, objection or agreement; describe daily life; and relate events from the past. Conversation will be elicited using guided conversation; nonverbal stimuli such as photos and images; and task-oriented activities. These recordings, along with twenty hours of archival audio, will be translated, transcribed, annotated, and archived for public use in both Alaska and Canada. This new resource on the Northern Haida language will make invaluable cultural, historical, and linguistic data available to the community, language learners, and researchers. Documentation of this language will also provide a permanent record and linguistic infrastructure of a language in imminent danger of extinction and will broaden and enrich resources for comparative linguistic study.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在世界范围内，土著语言和少数民族语言的日常使用和使用人数正在迅速下降。Xaad Kíl，北海达语（hdn），阿拉斯加东南沿海和加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省北部的一种土著语言，只剩下六个流利的使用者。虽然存在海达语法和字典，但大多数来源并没有记录日常会话生活中的语言使用，也没有提供视听文档。这个项目记录了阿拉斯加和加拿大的老人用这种濒危语言交谈。录音对话将展示说话者如何表达礼貌、反对或同意；描述日常生活；把过去发生的事情联系起来。对话将通过引导对话引出；非语言刺激，如照片和图像；以及任务导向的活动。这些录音，连同20小时的档案音频，将被翻译、转录、注释和存档，供阿拉斯加和加拿大的公众使用。这个关于北海达语的新资源将为社区、语言学习者和研究人员提供宝贵的文化、历史和语言数据。这种语言的文献也将为一种濒临灭绝的语言提供永久的记录和语言基础设施，并将扩大和丰富比较语言学研究的资源。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。