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Chya, Dehrich; Fine, Julia – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
For the past five years, the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository has been documenting intricacies of the Alutiiq language with the help of Elder speakers and a grant from the National Science Foundation (#1360839). The project's primary focus has been recording vocabulary, grammar, and ways of speaking for this threatened Native Alaskan…
Descriptors: Language Research, Alaska Natives, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Vocabulary
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Daria Boltokova; Jessica Kantarovich; Lenore Grenoble; Maria Pupynina – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
This paper problematizes the assessment of speakers' proficiency in endangered language communities. We focus in particular on processes of lexical production and elicitation as proxies for full proficiency assessment. Among linguists, it is standard to assess a speaker's knowledge of specific lexical items in order to set a baseline for further…
Descriptors: Language Research, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency