Certificate Programme in Language Softwares and Field Techniques
Of the
Directory of Certificate Learning
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Awka
17th December, 2022
Contents
Introduction
- Certificate on language analytic softwares
1.1 Praat
Synopsis
Outline
Recommended Advanced Level
1.2 ELAN
Synopsis
Outline
1.3 Phonology Assistant
Synopsis
Outline
Recommended
- Certificate on Language documentation Fieldwork
Synopsis
Outline
- Certificate on Corpus Management and Development
Synopsis
Outline
Introduction
Certificate Programme in Language Softwares and Field Techniques is a certificate programme of the department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts which will be run at the Directory of Certificate learning, both in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. This program has become a necessity given the lack of expertise in handling softwares for linguistic analysis, among students, lecturers and language professionals; the need for standard documentation of intriguing aspects of our languages and the redundancy of collected data over the years. The certificate programme is a three packaged programme: certificate in language softwares, language documentation or corpus development and management. A participant is allowed to run ONLY one program at a time. A full programme is designed to run for two consecutive months of intensive study, practicals and quizes. All classroom/academic demands on the students must be met before the issuance of desired certificate.
- Certificate on language analytic softwares
This certificate program is for language professionals into language analyses, research and development. The main crux is to bring to our awareness and also teach the use of Softwares that aid linguistic research. Softwares to be taught include: Praat, ELAN, Phonology Assistant, Lexico amd other relevant softwares that may be relevant.
- 1 Praat
Praat –doing phonetics with computer, developed by Boersma and Weenik (2009) is a computer programme which can be used to analyse, synthesize and manipulate speech. Students will be taught how to access, use and make this softaware beneficial to modern research.
Outline
Introduction to Praat
Recording/ loading of sounds
Segmentation and Annotation of sounds
Recognition of Vowels on the spectrogram
Recognition of consonants on the spectrogram
Measurements:
Formants
Pitch
Duration
VOT
Filing, Drawing and Exporting
Advanced:
R Code Analysis
Script writing
- ELAN
- Phonology Assistant
This is a property of SIL language technology used for charting of sounds and syllables; it creates sound inventories and conducts comparative study of sound patterns of languages.
Outline
Introduction to Phonology Assistant
Features
Imputation of data
Charting of Sound inventory
Computation of syllable structures
- Language documentation
This centres on the collection of data from natural languages. This is to prevent loss of endangered languages or to harness a particular aspect of the grammar for linguistic enquiry.
Outline
Introduction to language documentation
- Corpus development and corpus management
A lot of large body has been gathered during undergraduate, masters and post graduate researches. However, proper storing of these data are not made neither is there any step to increase the volume or enrich the annotation of the data in any way. This course tailors the path of proper management of data collected, channels of archiving and procedures to follow in improving an existing corpus. Source Hubs are also given.
Outline
Background on Corpus
Corpus tagging n annotation
Archiving of Corpus
Sourcing of Archived corpus