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。阿萨帕斯卡语，或说话者喜欢的德内语，构成了北美原住民最大、地理分布最广的语系。已经确定了五个独立的亚群：阿拉斯加、北部内陆(BC/育空)、麦肯齐盆地以及不连续的太平洋沿岸和阿帕奇群。由于整个北美部落人民承受着巨大的经济和社会压力，所有的德内语社区都处于危险之中。流畅性正在迅速消失。然而，德内社区意识到他们的脆弱性，许多社区正在积极与语言学家合作，记录他们的语言。这项提议寻求资金，由部落和学术语言学家和教育工作者组成的小组开发麦肯齐盆地德内语社区的在线互动演讲图集。演讲地图集将有地图上列出的德内语社区的可点击链接。链接到有关语音属性的信息，这些属性是该社区中声音系统结构的基础。这些清单将包括该社区的语音清单，以两种正字法编写，即国际拼音字母表和为该社区使用而开发的正字法。将给出辅音和元音发音的单词的声音文件。将收集和展示有关音调和韵律的信息。《图集》将提供问题和陈述中语调模式的基线信息，展示基本的语篇模式。这种方法的一个可取特征是能够将德尼语言数据本地化到特定的社区，反映出德尼人自我认同的方式(语言身份强烈以社区为基础)，并突出该地区规模小且往往孤立的德尼社区的语言的变异点和稳定点。Dene Speech Atlas项目将通过小组与CILLDI(加拿大土著语言和扫盲发展研究所)的持续联系，促进研究和教育的一体化，CILLDI每年夏天在埃德蒙顿的艾伯塔大学举行。该研究所致力于培训说土著语言的人进行语言分析和语言记录，吸引了来自加拿大北部各地土著社区的发言者。Dene Speech Atlas将为Dene土著社区和其他希望比较姐妹语言的发音模式和拼写惯例的人服务。这种基于地图的方法使语言材料能够以一种非常适合德内社区的新方式组织起来。这些信息将被贴上地理标签，允许它通过KML链接与谷歌地球等互联网地图系统相关联。它还将允许其他合适类型的材料，如词典和较旧的文本，与社区联系起来。地图集将允许将这些社区中的节奏和节拍、韵律和声音等言语现象作为主要来源进行研究。最后，语言的本质是口头的，我们收集和建立口语语料库的能力增强了，这使得人们更加意识到理解言语背后的系统模式的重要性。这种语音记录在口头文化中尤其重要，因为这些社区的知识基础必然在于口头表演，而这种记录即使有的话，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.