music and language

Fri Nov 16 21:57:49 UTC 2012

Berni SantaMaria...thank you so much for your words...your reference is to a
very interesting and worthy exchange of ideas and thoughts...megwetch
everyone. I can use a lot of those discussions. I used music and poetry in a
non-English first nation community in 1966 to learn English. It worked very
well...maybe too well in retrospect.

wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
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Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." 
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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of BSantaMaria
Sent: November-16-12 4:13 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] music and language

Thank you everyone for info/comments...here we know/believe that everything
is connected--language, songs, ceremony, people, land, natural resources,
identity, way of life, and so on, and we do not compartmentalize unless
someone is not knowledgeable or grew up elsewhere without these teachings.

Berni SantaMaria, White Mountain Apache in Arizona

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Maya Tracy Borhani <gmcmaya at gmail.com>
wrote:

Thank you! 

On Nov 15, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Miyashita, Mizuki wrote:

This is the link to the paper of Blackfoot lullaby recording project:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/ILR/ILR-14.pdf

And the following touches how this may help learning the language
http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/1553Miyashita1550303.pdf

Mizuki

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Hammond, Michael - (hammond)
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 6:32 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] music and language

all

I believe that's by Mizuki Miyashita (U. Montana).

cofion,

mike h.

On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:35 PM, Maya Tracy Borhani wrote:

;-And, I believe in one of your publications, Jon, there was an article
about Blackfoot lullabies and language learning. I can find the exact
title/link if you need - please just tag me back...

Maya

Maya T. Borhani
Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education
Faculty of Education

University of British Columbia
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z4

On Nov 14, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Jon Allan Reyhner wrote:

There was a short article on an Apache Song and Dance kindergarten program
in Teaching Indigenous Languages (see http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL_8.html
), which incidentally  is now back in print.

Jon Reyhner
Professor of Bilingual Multicultural Education
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/
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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] on
behalf of Susan Penfield [susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:19 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] music and language

I'm sorry I don't know of any articles, but I have seen this happening in
other communities where I work -- I always wish that language classes could
be built around the songs so that a connection could be made more clearly. I
agree with you totally that further investigation would be of value...

S.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:10 PM, BSantaMaria
<bernisantamaria at gmail.com<mailto:bernisantamaria at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for bringing up this relevant topic--though not in the same vein as
use of music to regain voice but use of music to learn a language-- I've
observed here on our rez events at which local traditional Apache dancers
and singers participate and saw young male singers who do not speak Apache
but can sing rather fluently in Apache as do a couple of adult ones who can
sing but not speak it. Does anyone on ILAT know of any articles on this type
of language phenomenon? Also what would be the proper linguistic terminology
to describe this type of language situation?

Interesting topic that could be investigated further for possibilities of
enhancement of language acquisition/revitalization activities and use of
traditional social or ceremonial native music.

Berni SantaMaria
Consultant, Apache Language/Culture
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Ewan Pohe
<ewan.pohe at vuw.ac.nz<mailto:ewan.pohe at vuw.ac.nz>> wrote:
Thank you for this post Philip.

In New Zealand in the Te Ataarangi system which teaches Māori as an L2 music
is used extensively.  From my experience it is useful on a number of levels.

It is not used enough in my view probably as singing is seen to be the
preserve of stars.

Ewan Pohe
Research Fellow
Māori Studies, Victoria University Wellington
50 Kelburn Parade, Room 210
04 463 5444
027 534 5473
H 04 383 5473
Whāia te iti kahurangi, ki te tuohu koe, me he maunga teitei

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash
<cashcash at email.arizona.edu<mailto:cashcash at email.arizona.edu>> wrote:
Greetings ILAT,

I recently saw an amazing video showing Gabby Giffords the Arizona
Congresswoman recovering from her brain injury stemming from a bullet that
passed thru the left side of her brain.  The video describes how she was
able to regain her speech thru music thus demonstrating quite effectively
the neurological link between music and language learning.

http://youtu.be/ndNn3Ucxt5k

I just wanted to post the video simply to spark some conversation on the
topic of music & language.  If it is a new idea or if you simply want to see
music being put into action please take a look at the video.  For some of
you, I'm sure this will be quite familiar.

Phil
UofA

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