This discussion note reviews responses of the linguistics profession to the grave issues of
language endangerment identified a quarter of a century ago in the journal Language by …

Transcribing speech is an important part of language documentation, yet speech recognition
technology has not been widely harnessed to aid linguists. We explore the use of a neural …

" Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest
China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from …

Subgrouping language varieties within dialect continua poses challenges for the application
of the comparative method of historical linguistics, and similar claims have been made for …

This paper reports on progress integrating the speech recognition toolkit ESPnet into Elpis, a
web front-end originally designed to provide access to the Kaldi automatic speech …

Sign languages do not arise from thin air: rather, they emerge in communities where
conventions are already in place for using gesture. Little research has considered how these …

A gripping and moving text which explores the wealth of human language diversity, how
deeply it matters, and how we can best turn the tide of language endangerment In the new …

As in many linguistics subfields, studies of prosody have mainly focused on majority
languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in social structures. The goal of …

We describe our own experience of linguist-community collaboration over the last ten years
in our Chatino Language Documentation Project, focused on the Chatino languages …

This dissertation is a description of the phonology and inflectional morphology of an
endangered indigenous language of Mexico stemming from a collaborative research project …