CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE PHONOLOGY OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

Cosponsored by the CUNY Phonology Forum, the CUNY Endangered Language Alliance and the MA/PhD Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York.

This took place January 12th-14th, 2011, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

The audio files andhandouts and/or slides are posted here.

The invited speakers were:

• Pattie Epps (UT Austin)
• Matthew Gordon (UCSB)
• Amanda Miller (Ohio State University)
• Keren Rice (U of Toronto)
• Erich Round (Yale)

The final program is here, as ammended due to the snowstorm: Program for the CUNY Endangered Languages Conference

The abstracts currently available are here: Abstracts for the CUNY Endangered Languages Conference

Registration information is here: Registration for the CUNY Endangered Languages Conference.

For useful information about budget-minded yet comfortable accommodations, the CUNY Graduate Center, and enjoying your trip to the city, please visit our accommodations and practical information page.

Meet the Endangered Language Alliance.

The conference will also feature a panel on urban fieldwork from the Endangered Language Alliance. "A trio of poet, professor, and field linguist have combined forces in the heart of New York City to document, support, and protect one of the most precious stores of cultural, scientific, and creative human knowledge: living languages. The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA, pronounced ay-la) is a new organization whose goal is is to further the threatened and endangered languages, and to educate the public about the causes and consequences of language extinction. In a small office on West 18th Street known as the Urban Fieldstation, endangered languages are being spoken, recorded, and translated before they possibly recede further into the margins." For more, see a recent New York Times article about endangered languages and their speakers in New York City.

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