27.4034, Summer Schools: Summer School in Documentary Linguistics: Methods and Data Management/Ghana

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:03:07
From: Fiona McLaughlin [fmcl at ufl.edu]
Subject: Summer School in Documentary Linguistics: Methods and Data Management

 

Summer School in Documentary Linguistics: Methods and Data Management

Host Institution: University of Florida
Coordinating Institution: University of Education, Winneba
Website: http://www.lin.ufl.edu (Not yet posted)

Dates: 16-Jul-2017 - 30-Jul-2017
Location: Winneba, Ghana

Focus: This is a two–week summer school designed to share and transfer knowledge and skills on the methods and practices of language documentation and data management.
Minimum Education Level: BA


Special Qualifications:
To be eligible, applicants from West Africa must fulfill all of the criteria below: 

- Reside and study/work in Africa.
- Minimum of BA or its equivalent involving some linguistic training.
- Some fieldwork experience or have concrete plans for doing documentation work.
- Be committed to and have a plan for transferring the knowledge they acquire to others in their universities and countries.

Please note that West African applicants from francophone institutions are welcome. 

US based applicants must fulfil all the criteria below:
- Reside and study/work in the US and be working on an African language
- Be registered in a graduate program in a US university 
- OR be an early career researcher or junior faculty affiliated to a US University
- Have some fieldwork experience or have concrete plans for doing documentation work
- Be committed to and have a plan for transferring the knowledge they acquire to others in their universities and to forge collaborations with African participants.


Description:
The summer school will be held at the University of Education, Winneba, in
Ghana prior to the West African Languages Congress (WALC 2017) to be held at
the same venue.  The summer school is intended for graduate students, early
career researchers, and linguistic faculty in West Africa and the United
States. The summer school is funded by a grant from the National Science
Foundation (NSF 1644439). 

Topics to be covered include:

- Introduction to documentary linguistics
- Ethical issues in language documentation in the African context
- Visual mode of language
- Ethnography in documentation
- Data gathering methods
- Data recording techniques
- Audio recording
- Video recording
- Workflow for data management
- Digital language archiving and principles of archiving and dissemination
- Data processing
- Transcription and annotation methods and tools (Transcriber, Praat, ELAN,
FLEx)
- Sketch grammars of use
- Semantic analysis and lexicography

There are approximately 25-30 places available, at least 5 places for US
participants and 20 for West African participants


Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation


Language Families: Nilo-Saharan

Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 
Participants' costs will be covered.

Financial Aid Instructions:



Registration: 09-Jan-2017 to 31-Jan-2017

Contact Person: Fiona McLaughlin
                Phone: 1-352-392-4829
                  Fax: 1-352-392-8480
                Email: fmcl at ufl.edu


Registration Instructions:
To request an application please send a message to the following address:

2017.winneba.school at gmail.com




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