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Socio-linguistic Profiles for Language Documentation

Where is the moral responsibility in language documentation for protecting privacy?

Keyboard layout as part of language documentation: The case of the Me'phaa and Chinantec keyboards

Successful writing systems today depend on electronic input methods which can be easily used for producing printed or electronic material. This paper explores keyboard design issues involved in designing two keyboards for two different established …

Language and Culture Documentation vs. Cultural Digital Natives

So, I wonder is that really any different than what digital natives are doing in cultures where there is a high degree of digital penetration? Is this really language documentation or is this really evangelism of a global digital culture?

Grants being aggregated in OLAC Search results

Grants applications can be a welth of information about the background of ethnolinguistic communities as well as a presentation of the framework for research outputs.

Resources for Digitizing Audio as part of Archiving

A collection of resource compiled and consulted while look for how to best catalogue audio materials.

Ethnologue: The Linguistic Straw-man

Some rough thoughts on how the Ethnologue is perceived and used socially.

Some Geo-Linguistic Resources

Some quick links and mentions of Geo-linguistic projects.

Metadata Dynamics for Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Corpora

This is an explanation of some diagrams I made at the LSA’s 2012 Satellite Workshop for Sociolinguistic Archival Preparation. They represent metadata cross cutting a corpus.

EGIDS, SIL, and Language Documentation

In what ways is EGIDS a useful tool for directing the funding of language development projects?

The Phonetic Status of the (Inter)dental Approximant

The (inter)dental approximant is a little-studied speech sound in the Philippines and Western Australia. In this paper, we document the articulation of the sound, providing acoustic and video data from Kagayanen and Limos Kalinga, respectively. The …