Conference on Documenting Indigenous Languages to Enhance Phonological and Phonetic Theories and to Improve Broader Impacts

语言的一个重要方面是语音系统和特定语言的模式。 事实上，像英语和西班牙语这样的语言只包括辅音、元音以及它们可以联合收割机的不同方式的可能声音的子集。 要更好地理解人类可以用声音（语音学）产生和感知什么，以及这些声音是如何组织和模式化的（音韵学），需要对具有不同于英语和西班牙语的声音和模式的语言进行调查、记录和分析。 该项目将使会议能够增加对人类如何产生，感知和组织这些不同语言的语音学和音韵学的科学理解，该项目的重点是一个以其多样性和在面临语言濒危的情况下迫切需要记录这种语言多样性而闻名的地理区域。研究墨西哥和中美洲语言多样性的土著专家。 本次研讨会是“墨西哥和中美洲声音系统（SSMCA 3）”的第三次迭代，将于2018年10月在阿默斯特的马萨诸塞州大学举行。演讲者将介绍世界这一地区不同语言的未被描述和分析的声音系统的科学发现。除了受邀演讲者的全体演讲，贡献的演讲和海报，会议将包括两个圆桌会议。第一次圆桌会议专门讨论促进土著和非土著学者之间合作的有效手段。 通过将土著语言使用者培训为语言学家，语言科学取得了巨大的知识进步;本组织将努力继续取得这一进步，重点是语音学和音韵学。 第二次圆桌会议的重点是许多语言文件项目的广泛影响，并将提出有效的方法，将语言文件翻译成教学材料，供学校使用，以发展和促进土著语言的扫盲，并在土著社区继续使用。此外，SSMCA 3将产生四个更广泛的影响：（1）促进土著和非土著语言学家在记录土著语言方面的学术交流和合作，（2）促进墨西哥和中美洲未描述和描述不足的语言的记录，（3）宣传维护墨西哥和中美洲土著语言的价值以及将其使用纳入公共教育的必要性;以及（4）向任何感兴趣的人提供在线会议的所有演示文稿和材料的开放访问。

An important dimension of language is the sound system and patterns of a given language. In fact, languages like English and Spanish include only a subset of the possible sounds of consonants, vowels, and the different ways they can combine. A greater understanding of what humans can produce and perceive in terms of sounds (phonetics) and how these sounds are organized and patterned (phonology) relies on investigation, documentation, and analysis of languages with different sounds and patterns than English and Spanish. This project will enable a conference to increase scientific understanding of how humans produce, perceive, and organize the phonetics and phonology of these diverse languages, focusing on a geographic region well-known for both its diversity and the urgent need to document this linguistic diversity in the face of language endangerment.The goal of this project is to bring together indigenous and non-indigenous experts who study the linguistic diversity of the languages of Mexico and Central America. This workshop, the third iteration of "Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America (SSMCA 3)" will be held in October, 2018 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Speakers will present scientific findings of the under-described and under-analyzed sound systems of the diverse languages of this part of the world. Besides plenary presentations from invited speakers, contributed presentations, and posters, the conference will include two roundtables. The first roundtable is devoted to discussing effective means of fostering collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous scholars. The language sciences have seen tremendous intellectual advancement with the training of speakers of indigenous languages as linguists; this will seek to continue that advancement with a focus on phonetics and phonology. The second roundtable is focused on a broader impact of many language documentation projects, and will present effective means of translating language documentation into pedagogical materials that can be used in the schools to develop and promote literacy in indigenous languages and to maintain their use in indigenous communities. Additionally, SSMCA 3 will have four broader impacts: (1) promoting scholarly interaction and collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous linguists in the task of documenting indigenous languages, (2) advancing the documentation of the un-described and under-described languages of Mexico and Central America, (3) publicizing the value of maintaining the indigenous languages of Mexico and Central America and the necessity of incorporating their use into public education, and (4) providing open access to all the presentations and materials from the conference online to any interested person.