20.2625, Media: Digital Tools for Linguistic Research

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LINGUIST List: Vol-20-2625. Tue Jul 28 2009. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 20.2625, Media: Digital Tools for Linguistic Research

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Date: 28-Jul-2009
From: Susan Fischer < Susan.Fischer at rit.edu >
Subject: Digital Tools for Linguistic Research
 

	
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:45:45
From: Susan Fischer [Susan.Fischer at rit.edu]
Subject: Digital Tools for Linguistic Research

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On July 28, 2009 the New York Times published a story on the use of digital
tools to aid in the documentation of language.

'It used to be that field linguists like Dr. Childs, a scattered corps
working against time to salvage the world's endangered tongues ? more than
3,000 at last count ? scribbled data in smeared notebooks and stored sounds
on cassette tapes, destined to rot in boxes. But linguistics has gone
digital. Dr. Childs now uses a solid-state recorder, and he has
applications that will analyze the elements of a vowel in seconds or
compare sounds across languages.'

Link to the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28prof.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discipline of Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation




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