Category: Research
The Sign Language Dataset Compendium
The UN has declared the 23rd of September the International Day of Sign Languages. To celebrate International Sign Language Day 2022, we want to introduce you to a resource compiling digital sign language datasets on today’s blog. The UN General Assembly proclaimed 23 September as the International Day of Sign Languages “in order to raise […]
Two papers on remote fieldwork
In September 2021, the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) organised a series of workshops on remote fieldwork. Two papers have now been published about methods discussed in these workshops in LD&C. Building trust on Zoom: A workflow for language documentation via videoconferencing software by Karolina Grzech and Selena Tisalema Shaca Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic affected […]
Visitas al Patio volume on Language Documentation
ELDP Grantee and ELAR depositor Lorena Orjuela was invited to edit the latest volume of the Universidad de Cartagena’s journal of linguistic and literary studies Visitas al Patio. Lorena’s Yuhup materials can be found in the ELAR colleciton Documentation and sociophonetic description of the varieties of Yuhup spoken in Colombia. This volume of Visitas al […]
Visitas al Patio – volumen sobre la documentación lingüística
La becaria del ELDP y depositante de ELAR Lorena Orjuela fue invitada a editar el último volumen de la revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios Visitas al Patio de la Universidad de Cartagena. Los materiales del yuhup documentados por Lorena se pueden encontrar en la colección ELAR Documentation and sociophonetic description of the varieties of […]
Working with an ELAR collection for your dissertation
This week on the ELAR blog, SOAS graduate Rebekah Hayes tells us about her experience using an ELAR collection for her MA dissertation. Rebekah completed her MA in Language Documentation and Description at SOAS in 2019, and is now a Research Fellow on the True Echos research project at the British Library. Why did you […]
‘Frog, where are you?’ – looking for a frog in ELAR
This week on the ELAR blog, ELAR’s Senior Archive Assistant and Communications Officer Leonore Lukschy writes about her search for frog story data in ELAR, and the importance of metadata in endangered languages archives. By Leonore Lukschy Endangered languages archives provide large amounts of materials on underdescribed languages around the world. In times when linguistic […]
Harvesting an archival deposit for your linguistics dissertation
By Jonas Lau This week on the ELAR Blog, ELAR depositor Jonas Lau tells us about his experience working with somebody else’s ELAR deposit for his MA dissertation. After finishing his MA in Language Documentation and Description at SOAS, Jonas went on to study a PhD in Linguistics at the Universität zu Köln, receiving an […]
‘Which Language Should I Document? Some concrete suggestions from diversity and endangerment’ by Harald Hammarström
Harald Hammarström, December 1, 2019 Are you looking to do a description of an endangered un(der)documented language but you are not sure which to choose? Then this may be the document for you. Let us take as point of departure the idea that we want to prioritise to document (i) the most endangered language which […]
Introducing DoReCo: Language Documentation Reference Corpora
On the ELAR blog this week, we are introducing the DoReCo project (Language Documentation Reference Corpus). DoReCo started in March 2019 and is a French-German collaborative project that brings together spoken language corpora from about 50 languages, extracted from documentations of small and often endangered languages. Matt Stave, postdoctoral researcher at Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage in Lyon, […]