ICLDC 6

The 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation is taking place from February 28 to March 3 at the Hawaiʻi Imin International Conference Center in Honolulu, hosted by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Notably, Luke West (MA 2015, now at the University of California, Los Angeles), Shay Hucklebridge (MA 2016, now at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Rosa Mantla (Tlicho Community Service Agency), Lucy Lafferty (Tlicho Community Service Agency), Tammy Steinwand (Tlicho Community Service Agency) and Nick Welch (former postdoc, now at Memorial University of Newfoundland) are presenting "Creating video games for language revitalization and pedagogy," based on a project developed here, originally as part of Nick's LIN458: Revitalizing Languages class in the autumn of 2013.

Keren Rice (faculty) is part of a presentation with colleagues from the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board: Faun Rice, Walter Bezha, Deborah Simmons, Jordan Lennie, Shelby Lennie, and Michael Neyelle:
"From Dene Kedə to Dene Ts’ı̨ lı̨: Reflecting on 25 years of change in the Sahtú region, Northwest Territories, Canada."

Guillaume Thomas (faculty) and Raphael Finkel (University of Kentucky):
"Building a Mbyá treebank."

Maida Percival (Ph.D.), with Sonya Bird (University of Victoria), Sonya Charlie (Simon Fraser University), Rae Anne Claxton (Simon Fraser University), Swutthus Harvey George (Simon Fraser University), Sq'utxulenuxw George Seymour (Simon Fraser University):
"Seeing speech: Teaching and learning Hul’q’umi’num’ pronunciation with Praat."

Tyler Peterson (former faculty, now at Arizona State University) is leading a workshop with colleagues Rolando Coto-Solano (Victoria University of Wellington), Samantha Wray (New York University, Abu Dhabi), and Sally Akevai (Ake) Nicholas (Auckland University of Technology):
"Accelerating the analysis of your audio recordings with Untrained Forced Speech Alignment."

Richard Compton (Ph.D. 2012, now at l'Université du Québec à Montréal) and Emily Kudlak (Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre):
"Lessons from collaborating on an Inuinnaqtun dictionary."

Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (MA 1984, now at the University of Victoria), with Martin Holmes (University of Victoria) and Sarah Kell (University of Victoria):
"Planning to stop before you start: Ending a digital dictionary project."

Former postdoc Betsy Ritter (now at the University of Calgary), with Heather Bliss (Simon Fraser University) and Noreen Breaker (Siksika Nation):
"A’tsotsspommootsiiyo’p Niitsitapi’powahsin."

Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (MA 1984, now at the University of Victoria), with Marion Caldecott (University of Victoria), John Lyon (California State University, Fresno), Janet Leonard (University of Victoria), Kyra Fortier (University of Victoria), and Karsten Koch (University of Alberta) are presenting a poster:
"Towards a prosody teaching toolkit: Developing methodology for a real-time intonation visualization component."