28.167, Summer Schools: Boot Camp in Language Documentation/USA

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Subject: 28.167, Summer Schools: Boot Camp in Language Documentation/USA

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:32:49
From: Claire Bowern [claire.bowern at yale.edu]
Subject: Boot Camp in Language Documentation/USA

Boot Camp in Language Documentation

Host Institution: Yale University
Coordinating Institution: Yale University
Website: http://pamanyungan.net

Dates: 28-Jun-2017 - 26-Jul-2017
Location: New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Focus: This boot camp provides an opportunity for intensive grammar writing, working with primary documentation materials for an endangered Australian language.
Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate

Special Qualifications:
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 will have graduated in Spring 2017 are eligible to apply. The targeted cohort is undergraduates who will have just finished either their junior or senior year.

Description:
I will again be holding a summer 'grammar boot camp' at Yale this summer. The
dates will be from Wednesday, June 28 to July 26, 2017. (Note that these dates
overlap with the LSA Institute at the University of Kentucky.) 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.

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 will have graduated in Spring
2017 are 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 once a day as a group with me 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 I would expect that successful applicants would do some reading of
grammars of related languages prior to the start of the boot camp. 

Applications for the boot camp are now open. The deadline for applications is
January 31, 2017, 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, experience with language documentation and
relevant software, your future plans, and why you'd 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.

Please also arrange for one or two letters of recommendation/support from
faculty to be sent to the same email addresses, also by January 31.

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, including some evenings and
weekends.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                      Language Documentation

Subject Languages: Wedau

Tuition: 0 USD

Tuition Explanation: Students will be awarded a stipend and travel costs to attend.

Registration: 06-Jan-2017 to 31-Jan-2017

Contact Person: Claire Bowern
                Phone: 2034322045
                Email: claire.bowern at yale.edu

Apply by Email: bootcamp at pamanyungan.net

Registration Instructions:
Please see description for requirements.

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