Language Revitalization

Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization

Leanne Hinton
Leena Huss
Gerald Roche
2018

A comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arcticto the Amazon and across continents ... The handbook is divided into two parts,the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practicewhile the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize anddecolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in languagerevitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and languagepolicy; language in educational institutions and in the home; new methodologies andvenues for language learning; and the...

GAIL 2015-2017

These are the GAIL talks from 2015-2017: March 18, 2015: Clare Sandy and Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley)

Punctuation is prosody: Making historic transcriptions of Karuk accessible for revitalization and research

Past researchers used punctuation differently to represent various prosody and utterance boundaries in Karuk. We utilize archival recordings and transcriptions to create a key that allows us to translate the historic transcription systems. A better understanding of prosody will aid language revitalization and research on Karuk...

A Report on Tribal Language Revitalization in Head Start and Early Head Start

Ruth Rouvier
2016

The Office of Head Start (OHS) has long supported the cultural and linguistic diversity of the families and children in its programs. This commitment includes support for language revitalization in tribal programs. In early 2015, OHS commissioned a project to learn directly about the efforts underway in the field, and the findings are presented in this report. Under a National Center on Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness contract, visits were made to 17 tribal Head Start or Early Head Start (HS/EHS) programs. Visits also were made to four other early childhood programs that are...