28.4753, Internships: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics: Vanuatu Field Assistantship, Max Planck Institute For The Science Of Human History

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Subject: 28.4753, Internships: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics: Vanuatu Field Assistantship, Max Planck Institute For The Science Of Human History

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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:40:24
From: Mary Walworth [walworth at shh.mpg.de]
Subject: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics: Vanuatu Field Assistantship, Max Planck Institute For The Science Of Human History

 

University or Organization: Max Planck Institute For The Science Of Human History
Department: Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Web Address: http://www.shh.mpg.de/497642/vanuatu-languages-lifeways

Type of Work: Data Collection And Transcription

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Duration: 29-Jul-2018 to 15-Nov-2018
Voluntary
Internship Location: , Vanuatu
Minimum Education Level: MA
Special Qualifications: Applicants should have completed a Masters degree by July 2018, and should be pursuing or seriously considering a doctoral thesis involving linguistic fieldwork. Applicants must have undergone course training (or comparable field training) in field methods, and be motivated to carryout remote fieldwork on their own. Applicants must also have undergone course training involving phonetic transcription. Finally, applicants must be able to demonstrate an ability to work independently in cross-cultural environments.

Applicants with experience conducting independent linguistic fieldwork, and applicants with evidence of interest in the languages of Vanuatu will be considered favorably. 


Description:
The Vanuatu Assistantship Program is designed to provide field training and
experience for postgraduate students who have completed their Masters degrees
and who are considering a PhD in an area of linguistics with a major field
component (such as: language documentation, sociolinguistics, historical
linguistics, or anthropological linguistics). We are especially interested in
students who want to explore the possibility of future PhD fieldwork in
Vanuatu, a “hot-spot” of linguistic diversity and endangerment. 

Assistants will arrive to Port Vila, Vanuatu in late July 2018 for
approximately 2 weeks of intensive Bislama language learning and language
documentation training with the project’s Senior Linguist, Dr. Mary Walworth. 
Following the orientation period, each Assistant will be assigned a remote
field-site where they will work individually for approximately 3 months,
collecting targeted linguistic data. During this time, Assistants will
maintain regular contact with Dr. Walworth and, in the beginning of October,
all Assistants will reconvene in Port Vila for a progress update.  

All data collected will be used for sociolinguistic and historical linguistic
analyses by the MPI-SHH team, and assistants will be expected to enter their
collected data into the following databases upon completion of their
fieldwork: Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database (https://abvd.shh.mpg.de)
and Sound Comparisons (http://www.soundcomparisons.com). Assistants will be
trained in how to interface with these databases.

The collected data will also be archived in the Pacific And Regional Archive
for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). Assistants will be
trained in archival submission and will be expected to make archival deposits
of the data that they collect upon completion of their fieldwork.


Application Deadline: 15-Dec-2017

Contact Information:
	Dr Mary Walworth 
	Email: walworth at shh.mpg.de


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