Abstract
Research that involves the collection of language data is notoriously labor intensive, often requiring fieldwork in remote places, where the travel alone is extremely time-consuming, not to mention expensive. Funding and institutional support for such research is limited, and often impossible to obtain without the attendant claim on the part of the researcher that paradigm-shifting theoretical issues lurk behind the data. Prestige within the academy does not come through careful analyses of the grammatical categories of Oneida, the nasal phonemes of Tequistlatec, or vowel mergers in Pittsburgh, but through pronouncements of innate linguistic structures, the evolutionary development of language or breakdowns in communication between the sexes.
Recommended Citation
Grenoble, Lenore A. and Whaley, Lindsay J.
(2002)
"What Does Digital Technology Have to Do with Yaghan?,"
Linguistic Discovery: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.101
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/linguistdiscov/vol1/iss1/4
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.101