Monday, October 24, 2011

Tonight: Rescheduled Sally Thomason Talk

Just a reminders that Sally Thomason's talk is rescheduled to TONIGHT at 7:30. There will be FREE PIZZA! Here is the abstract once again:
"I'll talk about some of the pitfalls of linguistic fieldwork -- especially fieldwork on endangered languages -- and on how to avoid those pitfalls. For instance: how to collect lots of lexical data from speakers who haven't spoken their language regularly for decades; how to collect data on nonstandard dialects when everyone who goes to school gets taught the standard dialect; how to avoid offending your consultants; how to collect data on rare grammatical constructions; how to deal with speaker-to-speaker variation; how to keep cultural taboos from preventing data collection."
Be there or be square!

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