LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Language Documentation, Phonetics
28 Mar 2017
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March 22 2017 endangered languages pt ii. Modern field linguistics (go to speakers in a language community and interacting w them) Goals: finding out how language works and how it fits into a family, what it tells us about language diversity, documentation of a disappearing language, produce grammars, dictionaries, texts, material gathered using a number of techniques. Elicitation native speakers attempt to say whether an utterance or not makes sense (in english we know what sounds right, but not necessarily why) Monolingual fieldwork linguist does not speak other"s language and vice versa, linguist attempts to figure out which utterance makes sense. Use basic scientific approach of separating hard problems into easier sub-problems (eg. looking at phonetics independently of social meaning, and vice versa) Language documentation not purely scientific, since they are social and political activities with social and political consequences (can be seen as using" culture, must be a two-way stream)
