Expanding Potawatomi Language Description with Documentation of Natural Speech (POT)

这个项目的目标是增加相对稀疏的关于阿尔冈琴语Potawatomi的文档。 这个为期三年的项目是基于一项核心活动，即录制（音频和视频）和处理流利母语为Potawatomi的长者54小时的自然语音。 这一活动将导致并得到一系列相关项目的补充，包括详细说明我们的词典数据库，创建一套协调的语言分析工具，以及扩展共同PI Welcher于1998年创建的语言部分语法草图。博代瓦德姆文语（英语：Bodéwadmimwen）是一种濒临灭绝的语言，主要在美国中西部（威斯康星州、密歇根州、堪萨斯和俄克拉荷马州）使用。这里记录的方言是森林县波塔瓦托米，在威斯康星州使用。 在剩下的10-15位讲波塔瓦托米语的流利长者中，有9位住在威斯康星州，所以这里是开展这样一个项目的理想场所。 现存的语言文献在数量和范围上都是有限的，这使得进一步的文献记录更加紧迫。现有的无脚本连接语音的记录包括查尔斯·霍克特收集的少量手写的、部分翻译的叙述，自发性差异很大的分散的教学材料，以及社区语言活动家的分散录音。 增加诸如对话、口述历史和其他类型的话语等体裁将使我们对波塔瓦托米语使用的记录更加完整。 Potawatomi叙事文本与日常话语有着显著的不同，即使在语法结构方面也是如此，因此创建此类文本的记录将拓宽语言分析的经验基础。 与流利的使用者协商，对收集的录音进行系统的转录，分析和存档，将产生一个主要的语言资源，这将对研究人员，以及语言教师和学习者产生巨大的好处。该项目是母语使用者，社区语言活动家，语言学家和软件应用专家之间合作的延续，他们目前正在编写一本Potawatomi词典，这将产生对所有这些选区有用的额外材料。 由于整个过程中社区的参与程度，我们有一个明确的重点是生产一个产品，将立即有利于社区驱动的语言振兴。 此外，我们将与一个新的森林县Potawatomi社区为基础的语言文档项目并行工作，该项目受到我们词典项目的启发并继续进行。

The goal of this project is to add to the relatively sparse documentation on the Algonquian language Potawatomi. This three-year project is based on a core activity, the recording (audio and video) and processing of a target of 54 hours of natural speech by fluent native speaker Potawatomi elders. This activity will both lead to and be complemented by a set of related projects, including the elaboration of our dictionary database, creation of a coordinated set of tools for language analysis, and the expansion of a partial grammatical sketch of the language created by co-PI Welcher in 1998.Potawatomi (or Bodéwadmimwen) is a critically endangered language spoken primarily in the Midwestern United States (Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma). The dialect being documented here is Forest County Potawatomi, spoken in Wisconsin. Of the total 10-15 remaining fluent elder speakers of Potawatomi, nine live in Wisconsin, so this is the ideal place for such a project. Documentation which exists on the language is limited in quantity and scope, making further documentation all the more urgent.Existing records of unscripted connected speech include a small number of handwritten, partially translated narratives collected by Charles Hockett, scattered pedagogical materials whose spontaneity varies widely, and scattered recordings by community language activists. The addition of genres such as conversations, oral histories, and other types of discourse will round out our record of Potawatomi language use. Potawatomi narrative texts are significantly different from everyday discourse, even in terms of grammatical structure, and thus creation of a record of such texts will broaden the empirical basis upon which linguistic analyses can be performed. Systematic transcription, analysis, and archiving of collected recordings in consultation with fluent speakers will result in a primary language resource that will be of immense benefit to researchers, as well as to language teachers and learners.The project is the continuation of a collaboration between native speakers, community language activists, linguists, and a software applications expert, all currently working on a dictionary of Potawatomi, and it will result in additional materials useful to all of these constituencies. Because of the level of community involvement in the entire process we have a clear focus on producing a product that will be of immediate benefit to community-driven language revitalization. In addition, we will be working in parallel with a new Forest County Potawatomi community-based language documentation project inspired by and continuing our dictionary project.