LSA.301 Field Methods : Public site

Bimanese : resources

• to get started
• Bimanese in Ethnologue
• Bimanese basic vocabulary in Austronesian Language Database (Simon Greenhill, University of Auckland)
• map and travel information

• Resources on Bimanese (Mbojo) and Austronesian and regional languages

• Conservation International: Wallacea — Wallacea in the Malesia biogeographical region

Tools for description and analysis

• EMELD School of Best Practice
• ELDP Grantee Training, June 2005
  
• Language Documentation: Methods and Technology, DoBeS 2004 Summer School, especially the documents for the DOBES training workshop 2004
  
• sound recording equipment details
  
• Linda Barwick's InterimDigitalAudioReport recommendations for recording
  
• comparison of some digital sound recorders
  
• Marantz PMD670 Flash RAM recorder - settings: 48kHz, 24bit, stereo, manual gain, mic att 0dB
• PDF of user's manual
• Røde NT-4 X/Y Stereo 1/2" condenser microphone
• link to PDF of user's manual
  
• Sony ECM-MS957 Electret Condensor stereo Microphone - directive angle set at 120° (?)
  
• Sony MDR-7506 Dynamic Stereo headphones
• Sony Digital Handycam DCR-TRV17 NTSC
  
• IPA charts and an IPA chart with linked audio for each symbol
  
• Bill Poser's software and Computational Resources for Linguistic Research
• xlit - a program for transliterating text (converting text from one writing system into another)
• Unix for linguists
• Dan Jurafsky's UCB Computational Corpus Linguistics course
• Bill Poser's Computational Methods in Linguistic Research
• Michael A. Covington's Python Resources for Linguists New to Programming
  
• Natural Language Toolkit, especially NLTK-Lite
• a summary of useful dictionary-making tools
• good instructions and template for a Toolbox/Shoebox project, including a template from Andrew Margetts (June 2005)
  
• a simple template for beginning a Shoebox project suitable for an Austronesian or Australian language (a folder compressed with zip)
• Typological tools for field linguistics (contribution of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to the Language Typology Resource Centre)
  

Bibliography

• background on linguistic documentation:
• S. Bird and G. Simons. 2003. Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description. Language 79:557-582.  Conference version available at http://arXiv.org/abs/cs/0204020
  
• N. Himmelmann. 1998. Documentary and descriptive linguistics. Linguistics 36:161-195.  Also in Osamu SAKIYAMA and Fubito ENDO eds. Lectures on Endangered Languages:5 (Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim, Kyoto, 2002) [PDF, 252kB]
  
• LinguaLinks Library of reference material on CD-ROM
  
• Lyle Campbell's bibliography (Word)
• Bert Vaux & Justin Cooper. Linguistic Field Methods. 2005 Draft.
• Bill Poser's field methods page with emphasis on Unicode fonts, and including a useful field methods bibliography
• updates:
• Daniel L. Everett's 'Coherent fieldwork' has been published, pp.141-162 in Linguistics Today

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