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Not offered in 2007
The impact of the digital revolution on data collection and management in linguistics has been profound. Professional linguists in the 21st century need to know what technologies are available and be able to adapt to change, to manage digitally encoded data, and to prepare data for presentation to the linguistic community or for long-term storage. This unit will cover all these topics using project-based learning. Language-specific software (e.g. Shoebox) and more general software (e.g. FileMaker and Access) will be used, the use of Unicode and issues in interoperability will be discussed, and the ethical issues raised by storing data collected from human subjects will be canvassed.
After successfully completing this unit, students will:
Group Participation: 20%
Group Project (equivalent to 2000 words): 40%
Individual Report (2000 words): 40%
2 hours per week