Laurits Stapput Knudsen
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Just in time for spring field methods classes, Amalia Skilton and I wrote a paper on how to do video documentation. blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilto... has the preprint; feel free to share #linguistics #langsky #lingsky #anthrosky #anthropology
December 2024: Tutorial Article on Video for Spoken Language Documentation – Dr. Amalia Skilton – Chancellor's Fellow
blogs.ed.ac.uk
December 20, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Just in time for spring field methods classes, Amalia Skilton and I wrote a paper on how to do video documentation. blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilto... has the preprint; feel free to share #linguistics #langsky #lingsky #anthrosky #anthropology
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Endangered languages are being killed, if you like a metaphor—more accurately, language users are *coerced* into shifting to a socially dominant language
Also, linguists don’t *save* languages—they may save recordings by language users for their community
@npr.org you can do better!
Also, linguists don’t *save* languages—they may save recordings by language users for their community
@npr.org you can do better!
Endangered languages are dying rapidly. Linguists are trying to save some of them www.npr.org/2024/11/...
December 18, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Endangered languages are being killed, if you like a metaphor—more accurately, language users are *coerced* into shifting to a socially dominant language
Also, linguists don’t *save* languages—they may save recordings by language users for their community
@npr.org you can do better!
Also, linguists don’t *save* languages—they may save recordings by language users for their community
@npr.org you can do better!
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AI is not going to save endangered languages. If you want to know how I know, please read on 👇
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/four-village...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/four-village...
Four Villages in Tibet Have a Lot to Tell Us About Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Linguistic Diversity
Artificial intelligence is not going to save the world’s languages. I know this because of lessons I learned studying four villages in Tibet.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
November 13, 2024 at 8:41 PM
AI is not going to save endangered languages. If you want to know how I know, please read on 👇
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/four-village...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/four-village...