Linguistics

Linguistic Service Policies

Working in services design and web-data handeling, I see a lot of different policies and data handling practices. However should there some special set of practices related to language data? I am exploring this question in a github repository.

The OWL and the Rice Farmer

Terminology and analogies used reveal our prejudices. A response to: “Is ELAN easy enough to use, so that an Indonesian rice farmer can use it?”

Open Educational Resources OER Links

A list of links on OER resources with an eye to OER resources for linguistics.

Some Gesture “Wordlists” from Northwest Nigeria

A couple of hand gestures taught to me by my friend.

Audio Dominant Texts and Text Dominant Audio

Should there be a display difference between read texts and oral texts which are not read?

InField

Ponderings on linguistics fieldwork training.

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.

SEO Considerations for Linguistic Resources

SEO for standard websites is pretty straight forward. I happen to be working on a website redesign (in Drupal) which presents Linguistic resources both published and unpublished. I recently came across two specialized SEO options which are useful:

Headphones for Language Documentation

Headphones impact the perception of sound. They need to be contoled for like a variable in an experiment, within the context of Language Documentation.