Language Documentation

Undergraduate

teaches the methods and tools used in documenting less-studied languages: developing collaborative relationships between researchers and speech communities; legal, political, ethical, and cultural implications; research ethics, licensing, and funding structures; designing fieldwork plans; relationships between theory and practice; avoiding biases from knowledge of other languages; issues of data recording, management, and analysis; the hardware and software of field linguistics; disseminating results in academic and non-academic venues; returning to the field.