Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the stages of a language documentation project in order.
- Record a broad range of natural speech and texts
- Establish a working relationship and consent with the community
- Analyse the grammar from the annotated corpus
- Deposit an archived, accessible record
- Transcribe and annotate the recordings
Hints
- Nothing begins before the community agrees to it.
- Analysis comes after annotation, and archiving is what makes the work survive.
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- Establish a working relationship and consent with the community
- Record a broad range of natural speech and texts
- Transcribe and annotate the recordings
- Analyse the grammar from the annotated corpus
- Deposit an archived, accessible record
Why
The first and last steps are the ones a beginner skips. Documentation whose recordings sit unarchived on a dead hard drive has produced a thesis and preserved nothing, which is why archiving is now a funding condition rather than an afterthought.
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