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

“这个奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)资助的。”讲特林吉特出生的人用什么特林吉特对话来继续他们的日常生活？在未来，学习者和科学家将关注什么样的日常功能语言记录？特林吉特语是纳-德内语系的一个分支，原产于阿拉斯加东南部、不列颠哥伦比亚省内陆和加拿大育空地区。在核心纳-德内语系的45种语言中，有两个分支；特林吉特语是一个分支；其他所有语言都来自另一个分支。大约有200名讲特林吉特出生的人，大多数是70多岁或更老的人。在过去的两年里，这一群体遭受了13%的死亡率，由于讲生育的人口正在老龄化，这个数字还会加快。对特林吉特人常见的日常对话的录音很少，但对于语言文件来说至关重要；日常对话是功能性交流的手段。我们需要对话的记录来分析、学习和保存。在国家科学基金会的支持下，爱丽丝·塔夫博士、理查德·L·道恩豪尔博士和阿拉斯加东南大学特林吉特教职员工和学生的项目团队将制作一段带有双语、与时间一致的注释的特林吉特自发对话的视频记录，并将结果提供给科学家和语言学习社区。第二个成果将是增加特林吉特语言社区成员的语言和扫盲技能、语言概念知识以及语言文件和档案方面的经验，这些成员非常积极地参与其语言振兴工作。为了录音，讲出生的人将被录像，在进行日常活动时，两人或更多人一组交谈。然后，以出生为母语的学生团队将用特林吉特转录对话，并将其广泛翻译成英语。这些视频将被后期制作成QuickTime字幕电影，供地区和国际Tlingit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，以供发现和获取以进行科学分析。社区和科学合作将在工作的所有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。在该项目的所有阶段都将利用信息技术的进步。

"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.