25.4357, Summer Schools: Grammar Boot Camp / New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Subject: 25.4357, Summer Schools: Grammar Boot Camp / New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:47:46
From: Claire Bowern [claire.bowern at yale.edu]
Subject: Grammar Boot Camp / New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Grammar Boot Camp / New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Host Institution: Yale University
Coordinating Institution: Yale University

Dates: 01-Jun-2015 - 26-Jun-2015
Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Focus: Claire Bowern will be holding a summer 'grammar boot camp' from June 1 to June 26, 2015. The idea is to have up to four advanced undergraduate students work intensively on existing high-quality archival field notes and recordings with the aim of producing a publishable sketch grammar. Students will receive a stipend and travel expenses to come to Yale.
Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate

Special Qualifications:
Because of funding restrictions, this is only open to US citizens and permanent residents.

Description:
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation's Research
Experiences for Undergraduates program; as such, applicants are limited to US
citizens or permanent residents. Students who have graduated in Spring 2015
will be eligible to apply. The targeted cohort is undergraduates who will have
just finished either their junior or senior year.

The materials to be worked on will be from an Australian Aboriginal language
from Western Australia and will include both print materials and audio files.
It is probable that the 'print' materials will already be digitized and in
Toolbox.

Students will meet twice a day as a group to discuss analyses and writing.
They will spend the rest of the time working with the materials in the
Linguistics department. They will receive regular detailed feedback on the
analysis and writing. Familiarity with Australian languages is not required
but it is expected that successful applicants would do some reading of
grammars of related languages prior to the start of the boot camp. 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                      General Linguistics
                      Language Documentation

Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 

Financial Aid Instructions:

Registration: 31-Oct-2014 to 15-Jan-2015

Contact Person: Claire Bowern
                Email: claire.bowern at yale.edu

Apply by Email: bootcamp at pamanyungan.net

Registration Instructions:
Applications for the boot camp are now open. The deadline for applications is
January 15, 2015, and applicants will be notified of the result in
mid-February. 

To apply, please send the following materials electronically:

- a letter of application, describing your experience in linguistics,
including research experience, your future plans, and why you would like to
join the boot camp,
- a writing sample, such as a linguistics term paper,
- course transcript (this can be an unofficial transcript).

Please send materials as file attachments to 

bootcamp at pamanyungan.net, cc'ed to claire.bowern at yale.edu. 

Applications will be acknowledged within 2 days - if you do not get an
acknowledgement, please contact Claire Bowern.

Please also arrange for one or two letters of recommendation/support from
faculty to be sent to the same email addresses, also by January 15.

Students will need to show some evidence of prior research experience (e.g.
through an RA-ship or by having a senior thesis in progress) and some
familiarity with language documentation procedures (e.g. through having taken
a field methods class or equivalent, such as having attended CoLang or a LSA
Institute class). Applicants will need to show attention to detail and ability
to focus on a project for a sustained period. Students will need to be able to
travel to New Haven for the entire period of the boot camp and should expect
to work solely on this project during that time.

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