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Brown Bag Discussion: 22 April 2009
Varieties of Linguistic Data Gathering
When and Where:
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
12:30pm-1:30pm
Pickard Hall, Room 212
A recording of this panel discussion is available on our Audio page.
Three of our PhD students will talk about the ways that they have been collecting language data for their dissertation work:
Heather Beal is examining the tone system of Soyaltepec Mazatec, an Otomangean language of Southern Mexico. Her work uses interviews, recorded word lists and texts, and makes use of computer analyses to aid in describing some of the phonetic phenomena before undertaking a phonological description of the tone system.
Mary Ann Dziugis is using mixed methods to study formal versus informal pronoun choices by strangers initiating Spanish conversation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has collected data via (a) participant observation and TV news clips of natural speech plus (b) written survey questionnaires and interviews to investigate reported speech.
Amanda Linerode is examining the distribution and meaning of an object-marking particle in Classical Hebrew using corpus analysis and discourse-based interpretation.