Led by Jenny Sou

What are the factors that cause a language to become endangered? How do speakers’ attitudes about their language relate to its vitality? How is cultural and traditional knowledge encoded in a language? In our introductory workshop, we will discuss all of these questions, and more.

Led by Margaret Ransdell-Green

Phonology is the study of how the sounds of a language pattern together to form greater units of meaning. An orthography is the writing system that is used to express these sounds. Both of these things come in many different shapes and sizes.

Led by Leah Pappas

Audio recording is essential to language documentation, but being able to navigate using an audio recorder can be difficult. This workshop provides the basics of how to use different types of audio recorders, how to get the cleanest recordings, and how to properly archive that data.

Led by Jacob Hakim

While audio recording captures the language, it doesn’t capture facial expressions, gestures, the environment, etc. Good video recording requires knowledge of video recorders and equipment, setting up a good shot, and taking the environment into account.

Led by Danielle Yarbrough
The goal of language documentation is to create a lasting, accessible record of a language, while the goal of language revitalization is to increase the number of speakers. There are many different approaches to language revitalization. We will discuss some of these, and take a look at different kinds of pedagogical materials and how to make them.

Led by Greg Vondiziano

The way words are formed can be very different from one language to another, as well as how those words interact to form ideas and sentences. In this workshop we investigate the exciting factors of morphology (words) and syntax (grammar).

Led by Liv Bianchini

ELAN is an important tool for transcribing recorded language, but ELAN can be quite difficult to use. Liv covers the basics of transcribing recordings in ELAN, and how to add subtitles to videos.

In this workshop we get out into nature, exporing the native plants that can be found on the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's campus. We'll learn about the traditional uses of these plants, and their significance in Hawaiian culture.

Join us to celebrate the languages and cultures of our Spring 2020 language experts! Enjoy delicious food and great company.

4:30pm at the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies