27.297, Confs: Anthropological Ling, Comp Ling, Genetic Classification, Lang Doc, Text/Corpus Ling/Brazil

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Subject: 27.297, Confs: Anthropological Ling, Comp Ling, Genetic Classification, Lang Doc, Text/Corpus Ling/Brazil

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:17:16
From: Filomena Sandalo [pfilnu at gmail.com]
Subject: Putting Fieldwork on Indigenous Languages to New Uses

Putting Fieldwork on Indigenous Languages to New Uses 
Short Title: PFILNU2016 

Date: 21-Mar-2016 - 06-Apr-2016 
Location: University of Campinas/Campinas, Brazil 
Contact: Filomena Sandalo 
Contact Email: pfilnu at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/pfilnu/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Genetic Classification; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Putting Fieldwork on Indigenous Languages to New Uses is a São Paulo School on
Advanced Sciences, supported by the São Paulo State Research Foundation
(FAPESP), and will be held from March 21 to April 6, at the University of
Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. 

Flight tickets will be provided to the selected students.

The purpose of this school is twofold: (i) to introduce early career
researchers to the latest developments in data collection and linguistic
research on native languages, and (ii) to pave the way for new uses of
linguistic fieldwork, with mutual benefits for both linguists and the
indigenous populations. Drawing on the vast experience of the researchers of
the several partner institutions in documentation, corpus linguistics and
formal linguistic theory, we will present/discuss possibilities not previously
pursued: extensive comparison across native languages to build taxonomies and
phylogenetic models of transmission, oral corpora and a new objective and
unbiased grammatical terminology, reflecting the speakers' original intuitions
and potentially revealing truly universal building blocks of language and
cognition. All these new tools should feed into literacy projects for the
local communities, raising their own meta-linguistic and cultural awareness
(in a non-intrusive way).

We expect students form several universities of Brazil, Argentina,
Great-Britain, Australia and United States to attend, resulting in about 100
students. 

Courses:
Languages and cultures of Brazil 
Introduction to phylogetic methods in Linguistics
How to work on digital oral corpora syntactic annotation 
Experimental and computational methods in Phonology and Morphology
Music, Language, and Documentation in Australia
Experimenting semantics, number and language

Program:

First week - March 21-25/2016: Syntax Corpora and Phylogenesis week

9:00-10:00
Welcome (first day only)

9:00-10:00
(from Tuesday) Class 1: Languages and cultures of Brazil 
(Bruna Franchetto, Angel C. Mori, Filomena Sandalo)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30–12:30
Class 2: Introduction to phylogetic methods in Linguistics (Pino Longobardi)

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:30
Hands on phylogenetics: Guaikurú and Karib 
(Pino Longobardi, Filomena Sandalo, Bruna Franchetto)

14:30-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-17:00
Class 3: How to work on digital oral corpora syntactic annotation 
(Charlotte Galves, Susan Pintzuk)

17:00-18:00
Hands on work on corpora: Guaikurú and Tupi-Guarani 
(Charlotte Galves, Susan Pintzuk, Filomena Sandalo, Joel Wallenberg)

19:00 Dinner

Second Week - March 28 to April 2: Experimenting Phonology and Morphology week
+ Corpora

Monday- Trip to São Paulo/USP/MAE guided by Luciana Storto

Tuesday to Friday

9:00–11:00
Class 4: Experimental and computational methods in Phonology and Morphology 
(Michael Becker)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11.30–13:00
Hands on experiments: Guaikurú 
(Michael Becker, Filomena Sandalo, Suzi Lima, Andrew Nevins)

13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:00
Posters by selected students

17:00-18:00
Hands on work on corpora: Guaikurú and Tupi-Guarani 
(Charlotte Galves, Susan Pintzuk, Filomena Sandalo, Joel Wallenberg)

Third Week - April 04-06: Music, Language and Documentation + Experimenting
Semantics week

9:00-11:00
Class 5: Music, Language, and Documentation in Australia 
(Myfany Turpin, Andrew Nevins

11:00-12:00
Class 6: Experimenting semantics, number and language
(Suzi Lima)

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-17:00
Hands on Experimentation 
(Andrew Nevins, Myfany Turpin, Michael Becker, Filomena Sandalo, Bruna
Franchetto)

17:00-18:00 Coffee Break and final remarks

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