Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Navajo Language Software (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Interesting arrangement certainly.  Thnx Claire, Phil

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Phil,
> As I understand it, Rosetta is doing this for free as long as there is
> a community commitment to providing the source materials (and they
> need to demonstrate they can do so). Rosetta provides a certain amount
> of recording and editing time, the prompts, and the software, and
> funds the travel for the sound engineers to visit the community.
> This is a total guess but I would guess that would run to $50,000
> easily, probably more, since it would be billed at professional hourly
> rates, not academic linguist rates.
> Claire
>
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> Claire Bowern
> Associate Professor
> Department of Linguistics
> Yale University
> 370 Temple St
> New Haven, CT 06511
> North American Dialects survey:
> http://pantheon.yale.edu/~clb3/NorthAmericanDialects/<http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Eclb3/NorthAmericanDialects/>
>
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