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Integrating Experimental Methods, Language Documentation, And (Linguistic) Theory, Seunghun Lee, Michal Temkin Martínez
Integrating Experimental Methods, Language Documentation, And (Linguistic) Theory, Seunghun Lee, Michal Temkin Martínez
CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses
Language documentation and linguistic theories mutually benefit from cooperation - data from documentation propels linguistic theories, and different theories can inform the collection of language materials. A wide array of rich, naturally occurring data collected in language documentation settings has long informed and been used for the basis for typological assertions and to further linguistic inquiry (Palosaari and Campbell 2011, Himmelmann 2012). On the other hand, O’Grady et al. (2009) use psycholinguistic theory and methods to aid in the documentation and assessment of language fluency that can be used for revitalization efforts. Additionally, the integration of experimental methods in language …
Transcription, Eno-Abasi Urua
Transcription, Eno-Abasi Urua
CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses
Transcription, the written representation of spoken human language, is vital to any language documentation and revitalization project. This hands-on workshop introduces participants to a variety of different transcription methodologies for various purposes. The workshop primarily focuses two types of transcription: (i) phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet and (ii) discourse transcription where elements of well-known transcription systems are introduced (Conversation Analysis – developed at UC Santa Barbara). The workshop emphasizes the nuts and bolts of these transcription systems and how to apply transcription practices to documentation and revitalization projects.
Unangam Tunuu, Anna Berge, Moses Dirks
Unangam Tunuu, Anna Berge, Moses Dirks
CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses
This workshop prepares the student for the 3-week practicum focusing on fieldwork on a sleeping or less accessible language using archival materials; the language we focus on (for both the workshop and practicum) is Unangam Tunuu (Eastern Aleut, ISO 6390ale). The workshop class will cover the language and cultural history, linguistic structure, the history of language documentation and description in Unangam Tunuu, and the main resources and foci of previous linguistic research. Students will be required to do the readings and to familiarize themselves with leading articles or reference books in the field, in particular with the Aleut Dictionary and …
Talk It Up! — Integrating And Prioritizing Conversational Data In Documentation, Nicholas Williams, Kristine Stenzel, Barbara Fox
Talk It Up! — Integrating And Prioritizing Conversational Data In Documentation, Nicholas Williams, Kristine Stenzel, Barbara Fox
CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses
This course will introduce participants to some of the basic methodological and theoretical issues related to recording and analyzing everyday conversations. We will discuss specific contributions of naturalistic interactions to understanding aspects of linguistic structure, social interaction, and culture and explore how interactional data can be better integrated into language documentation projects.
Working With Archival Materials, Susan Gehr, Megan Lukaniec
Working With Archival Materials, Susan Gehr, Megan Lukaniec
CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses
As more languages become dormant each year, there is a growing need to develop and disseminate research methods for working with archival documents. This workshop is aimed primarily toward beginning and intermediate participants who either are currently working with or intend to work with archival materials. The workshop will focus primarily on providing and developing skills to accomplish research and revitalization goals through the use of archival documents. Therefore, there will be hands on practice in class as well as regular assignments for participants. These assignments will allow students to begin working with these materials during the workshop itself, to …
Paleoethnobotany In Interior Alaska, Caitlin R. Holloway
Paleoethnobotany In Interior Alaska, Caitlin R. Holloway
Anthropology
Vegetation and plant resources can impact forager mobility and subsistence strategies. However, misconceptions about the preservation of organics in subarctic archaeological contexts and underestimations of the importance of plant resources to foraging societies limit paleoethnobotanical research in high-latitude environments. This research draws upon concepts from human behavioral ecology to address questions relating to site seasonality, plant resource use, land use, and deposition and taphonomy. The model developed in this thesis outlines expectations of seasonal archaeobotanical assemblages for Late Pleistocene and Holocene sites in interior Alaska. I consider these expectations in light of plant macroremains found in anthropogenic features from Components …
Local Herpetological Knowledge In The North, Joshua Taylor Ream, XíXch'i ToowóO
Local Herpetological Knowledge In The North, Joshua Taylor Ream, XíXch'i ToowóO
Fisheries
Amphibians are important components of ecological communities and of human cultures, even in high northern latitudes where species diversity for this group is low. Despite their ecological and cultural value, and their ability to serve as indicators of ecosystem health, information on the biology of amphibians in Alaska and high latitude segments of their geographic range is limited. By combining local knowledge of herpetology and citizen science approaches, it is possible to circumvent some of the logistical constraints of research in a vast, sparsely populated region to enhance scientific understanding of amphibian populations. The first objective of this investigation is …
The Sun Star, Vol. 35 No. 27 (May 03 2016), N/A N/A
The Sun Star Vol 35 No 27 ( May 3rd, 2016), N/A N/A
Cultural Awareness As An Essential Business Practice, Yelena Reep
Cultural Awareness As An Essential Business Practice, Yelena Reep
Student Projects for Graduate Degrees
Many organizations conducting business in Alaska realize the necessity for robust cultural awareness training methods, tools and resources as means to managing risks and building positive relationships with stakeholders. This paper investigates the concept of cultural intelligence and its role in improving organizational performance and mitigating risks. Data collected through surveys and interviews showed that cultural awareness training focused on Alaska Native cultures was conducted by a significant number of Alaska organizations. The training is used as a risk mitigation and stakeholder management tool. Data analysis includes a description of the most common methods used to deliver cultural awareness training. …
Whalesong 2016-04-20, N/A N/A
Findings From The Workshop On User-Centered Design Of Language Archives, Christina Wasson, Gary Holton, Heather Roth
Findings From The Workshop On User-Centered Design Of Language Archives, Christina Wasson, Gary Holton, Heather Roth
Alaska Native Language Center Faculty
This white paper describes findings from the workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives organized in February 2016 by Christina Wasson (University of North Texas) and Gary Holton (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa). It reviews relevant aspects of language archiving and user-centered design to construct the rationale for the workshop, relates key insights produced during the workshop, and outlines next steps in the larger research trajectory initiated by this workshop. The purpose of this white paper is to make all of the findings from the workshop publicly available in a short time frame, and without the constraints of a journal …
Chancellor's Report 2016-04, Richard Caulfield
Chancellor's Report 2016-04, Richard Caulfield
Chancellor's Report
No abstract provided.
Uas Academic Catalog 2016/2017, N/A N/A
Uas Academic Catalog 2016/2017, N/A N/A
UAS Academic Catalogs (2011-present)
No abstract provided.
Chapter 6: Vegetation, Matthew Berman, Robert Develice, Teresa Nettleton Hollingsworth, Elizabeth Bella, Matthew L. Carlson, Paul Clark, Tara Barrett, Gregory D. Hayward, John Lundquist, Dawn Robin Magness, Tobias Schwoerer
Chapter 6: Vegetation, Matthew Berman, Robert Develice, Teresa Nettleton Hollingsworth, Elizabeth Bella, Matthew L. Carlson, Paul Clark, Tara Barrett, Gregory D. Hayward, John Lundquist, Dawn Robin Magness, Tobias Schwoerer
ISER Reports
This assessment evaluates the effects of future climate change on a select set of ecological systems and ecosystem services in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula and Chugach National Forest regions. The focus of the assessment was established during a multi-agency/organization workshop that established the goal to conduct a rigorous evaluation of a limited range of topics rather than produce a broad overview. The report explores the potential consequences of climate change for: (a) snowpack, glaciers, and winter recreation; (b) coastal landscapes and associated environments, (c) vegetation, (d) salmon, and (e) a select set of wildlife species. During the next half century, directional …
How Landscape Ecology Informs Global Land-Change Science And Policy, Buma, Audrey Mayer, Amelie Davis, Sara Gagne, E. Louise Loudermilk, Robert Scheller, Fiona Schmiegelow, Yolanda Wiersma, Janet Franklin
How Landscape Ecology Informs Global Land-Change Science And Policy, Buma, Audrey Mayer, Amelie Davis, Sara Gagne, E. Louise Loudermilk, Robert Scheller, Fiona Schmiegelow, Yolanda Wiersma, Janet Franklin
Faculty, Staff, and Students
Landscape ecology is a discipline that explicitly considers the influence of time and space on the environmental patterns we observe and the processes that create them. Although many of the topics studied in landscape ecology have public policy implications, three are of particular concern: climate change; land use–land cover change (LULCC); and a particular type of LULCC, urbanization. These processes are interrelated, because LULCC is driven by both human activities (e.g., agricultural expansion and urban sprawl) and climate change (e.g., desertification). Climate change, in turn, will affect the way humans use landscapes. Interactions among these drivers of ecosystem change can …
Fishlines, 2016, N/A N/A
On Becoming Human In Lingít Aaní: Encountering Levinas Through Indigenous Inspirations, Sol Neely
On Becoming Human In Lingít Aaní: Encountering Levinas Through Indigenous Inspirations, Sol Neely
Faculty, Staff, and Students
Calls for taking up wisdom in its place risk re-inscribing coloniality at the level of signification if attempts to resituate intelligibility in the specificity of place are not enacted through a careful translation of experience between victims and perpetrators of colonial violence. At some level, decolonization ought to be conceived as a kind of translation. Emmanuel Levinas' project to "translate" Judaism into Greek is one way of staging such decolonial translation by providing us an internal critique of coloniality while remaining receptive to indigenous inspirations that enrich eco-phenomenological ways of encountering place. In the final instance, however, this paper calls …
Cooperative Cross-Cultural Instruction: The Value Of Multi-Cultural Collaboration In The Coteaching Of Topics Of Worldview, Knowledge Traditions, And Epistemologies, Theresa John Arevgaq, Michael Koskey
Cooperative Cross-Cultural Instruction: The Value Of Multi-Cultural Collaboration In The Coteaching Of Topics Of Worldview, Knowledge Traditions, And Epistemologies, Theresa John Arevgaq, Michael Koskey
Troth Yeddha' Roots: Connecting the Place With the People
For four years (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015) two faculty members of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Center for Cross-cultural Studies have collaborated to co-teach a course entitled Traditional Ecological Knowledge (CCS 612). This course examines the acquisition and utilization of knowledge associated with the long-term habitation of particular ecological systems and the adaptations that arise from the accumulation of such knowledge. Intimate knowledge of place—culturally, spiritually, nutritionally, and economically for viability—is traditional ecological knowledge, and this perspective is combined with the needs of an Indigenous research method to better understand and more effectively explore the proper role of traditional knowledge …
The Sun Star Vol 35 No 20 ( March 1st, 2016), N/A N/A
The Sun Star, Vol. 35 No. 20 (March 01, 2016) , N/A N/A
The Sun Star, Vol. 35 No. 20 (March 01, 2016) , N/A N/A
Sun Star
No abstract provided.
Language Archiving: Where We've Been And Where We're Going, Gary Holton
Language Archiving: Where We've Been And Where We're Going, Gary Holton
Alaska Native Language Center Faculty
This presentation provides an overview of the history of language archiving. It was given at the Workshop on User-Centered Design, held at the University of North Texas on February 20-21, 2016.
The Sun Star Vol 35 No 17 ( February 9th, 2016), N/A N/A
The Sun Star Vol 35 No 17 ( February 9th, 2016), N/A N/A
Sun Star
No abstract provided.
The Sun Star, Vol. 35 No. 17 (February 09, 2016), N/A N/A
The Sun Star, Vol. 35 No. 17 (February 09, 2016), N/A N/A
Sun Star
No abstract provided.
Space Use And Movements Of Moose Hunters And Wolves In The Yukon Flats, Alaska, Ian Johnson
Space Use And Movements Of Moose Hunters And Wolves In The Yukon Flats, Alaska, Ian Johnson
Biological Sciences
Within the Yukon Flats, Alaska, subsistence communities utilize moose (Alces alces) as a primary resource (78% of households) and wolves (Canis lupus) hunt them as an obligatory prey item. Hence, understanding the potential of direct or indirect competition between wolves and humans is useful for managers. In Chapter 1, I used a novel approach utilizing spatially-linked interviews to quantify the distance subsistence users were traveling from communities and rivers to harvest moose in the Yukon Flats. My study was the first to quantify hunter access in the Arctic and may provide managers with a harvest estimation approach that may supplement …
Post Stroke Interpersonal Communication: An Intimate Exploration Of Stroke Survivors' Lived Experiences, Lora L. Hendley
Post Stroke Interpersonal Communication: An Intimate Exploration Of Stroke Survivors' Lived Experiences, Lora L. Hendley
Communication
This qualitative study explores the personal and intimate lived experiences of stroke survivors who suffer the comorbid emotional sequelae of Post Stroke Depression (PSD) and how it affects their rehabilitation and interpersonal relationships post stroke. By using Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT), the idea of Social Construction of Identity, the epistemology of Narrative Inquiry (NI), and conversational interviews (CI), with stroke survivors, their spouses/significant others, friends, and other family members, the aim of this body of research has been to take on the difficult task of observing how stroke survivors navigate the difficult and sometimes daunting path that all stroke survivors …
Visual Artists Experiencing Nature: Examining Human-Environment Relationships, Amy Lynn Wiita
Visual Artists Experiencing Nature: Examining Human-Environment Relationships, Amy Lynn Wiita
Anthropology
Anthropology has a long history collaborating with artists to understand their artwork. However, little research exists in the discipline that focuses on artists as a group, their creative process, and what may influence that process. In particular, how artists use nature and place has not been studied; instead, anthropology has generally considered nature and place as merely a backdrop for culture rather than for its impact on cultural expression. Identification of diverse aspects of the interdependence of ecological and social systems can inform our understanding of how people address issues of environmental concern. Managers, scientists, creative people, and others working …
Wrestling, Archery, And Horse Racing In Buryatia: Traditional Sports Competitions And Social Change, Stefan Krist
Wrestling, Archery, And Horse Racing In Buryatia: Traditional Sports Competitions And Social Change, Stefan Krist
Anthropology
Sporting activities are examined in order to better understand a society's general socio-economic and political changes. The two basic research questions are the following: (1) Which economic, social, political, and cultural changes in and of the Buryat society were and are reflected in Buryat traditional sports? (2) How far and in which ways did and do Buryat traditional sports and the people engaged in them contribute to social change? Anthropological studies of play, games, and sport, an overview of which is presented in Chapter 1, have revealed that sports are closely linked and tightly entangled with the cultures and societies, …
Functional Comparisons Between Formal And Informal Tools Sampled From The Nenana And The Denali Assemblages Of The Dry Creek Site, Patrick T. Hall
Functional Comparisons Between Formal And Informal Tools Sampled From The Nenana And The Denali Assemblages Of The Dry Creek Site, Patrick T. Hall
Anthropology
This research involved low powered microscopic analysis of usewear patterns on the utilized edges of formal and informal tools sampled from the Nenana component (C1) and the Denali component (C2) of the Dry Creek Site. Dry Creek is one of the type sites for the Nenana Complex, which is often contrasted with the Denali Complex in Late Pleistocene archaeological studies of central Alaska (12,000-10,000 B.P.). There are twice as many unifacial scrapers than bifacial tools in the C1 formal tool assemblage. The C1 worked lithic assemblage contains a relatively high number of unifacially worked endscrapers and side scrapers when compared …
IñUpiat Ilitqusiat: Inner Views Of Our IñUpiaq Values, Charles Sean Topkok
IñUpiat Ilitqusiat: Inner Views Of Our IñUpiaq Values, Charles Sean Topkok
Indigenous Studies
Iñupiat Ilitqusiat: Inner Views of Our Iñupiaq Values examines how Iñupiat pass down elements of our cultural heritage to future generations. The research is community-driven by the Pavva Iñupiaq Dancers of Fairbanks, families with Iñupiaq children in their household, and other Iñupiat worldwide. My doctoral research addresses how we view each Iñupiat Ilitqusiat (Iñupiaq Values), how our Iñupiat Ilitqusiat have been passed down, and how we pass down our Iñupiaq cultural heritage to our future cultural-bearers. Participants talk about our Iñupiat Ilitqusiat to acknowledge that we are Iñupiat wherever we live. I assert that in order to conduct culturally appropriate …