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Outline…
1. TexasCzechs:Thepopula=on&language
2. TexasCzechLegacyProject:Ourpurposes&audiencesAudioArchive:sourcedatabasesBuildingthearchive&sitetour
3. AsearchableaudioarchiveofTexasCzechasaresearchtool
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1.TexasCzechs:Popula7onandLanguage
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TexasCzechVernacular&itsSpeakers- AblendofarchaicNortheasternMoravianand(toalesserdegree)NorthEasternBohemiandialects,andstandard(‘school’)Czech,heavilyinfluencedbyoveracenturyandahalfofcontactwithEnglishspokeninTexas.
- The2010Census:8,748TexansasCzechspeakers.
- Anendangeredimmigrantlanguagevarietyfastapproachingex=nc=on
- Thelanguagewilllikelydieinthenext10-15years.Itsdocumenta=onisparamount.
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TheTexasCzechLegacyProjectattheUniversityofTexasatAus=nbeganin2012;aimstomakeavailablespeechandprintdatathroughitsopen-accessdigitalarchiveofaudio-recordingsandhistoricdocumentsgatheredfromethnicCzechMoraviansinTexasoveraforty-yearperiod.Supportedby:• DepartmentofSlavicandEurasianStudiessince2012• Humani@esTexas2013and2014• Donated=meandexper=se:LAITS&TGDP
Cope,L.,Hopkins,M.,&Miller,R.(2012-2016).TexasCzechLegacyProject.hbp://laits.utexas.edu/txczechproject/home.Aus=n:UniversityofTexas.
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Objec7vesandAudiences
Objec7ves• Documentandpreserve:
uniquelanguageandheritage
• Aid:TexasCzechasaresourceinheritagelanguageteaching
• Inspire:Collabora=veprojects(ac=vists,educators,researchers)
Audiences• Communitymembers• Educators• Students• Researchers
– linguists,appliedlinguists,ethnographers,historians,folklorists,corpuslinguistsanddialectologistsintheUS,CzechRepublic
– ConnectedsearchablecorporaforCzechenclavesaroundtheworld!
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Designinganinterac=vemap…
AudioArchive
Interviews
ElicitedLanguage(languagetasks)
Naturallyproducedspeech
VisualArchive
Newspapers
Photographs
Lebers
Biographies…
AudioArchive:SourceDatabases• SvatavaPírkováJakobson’s(1908-2000)recordingsfromthe
late 1960s-1980s (The Briscoe Center for the AmericanHistory and Texas Czech Heritage & Culture Center, LaGrange,Texas).
• KarelKučera’sdatafromthelate1980s:18hours• LidaCope’sdatabase:cc.327hours (1997fieldwork);90full
interviews;groupinterviewsandcommunityevents;includeslanguagetasksandgramma=caljudgments
• JohnTomecek’sdatabase:oralhistories(2007-2009):15hrs.• Currentrecordingsfrom2012-2015
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DataStorage(DASe)then
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Transcrip7on&Transla7onwithELANhbp://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/
(TheMaxPlanckIns=tuteofPsycholinguis=cs)
• Acopyofeachmasterfilesplitupintosegments(1-5minutes;longerwithlanguagetasks)
• Eachsegmenttranscribed(modifiedSCorthography):accuracy accessibility authen7city
• SegmentsassignedfileID#toassociateeachsegmentwithauniquedigitalmasterfile
• Transcrip=on:– TexasCzechtokenizedtranscrip=on– Englishtokenizedannota=on– Englishfreetransla=on
• TranscriptdisplayedinTexasCzech,English,orbothTexasCzechandEnglish
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Let’stakeatour…
Websitedesign;dialectarchive;searchfunc=ons...h[p://www.laits.utexas.edu/txczechproject/home
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3.AsearchableaudioarchiveofTexasCzechasaresearchtool:butwhy?
- Diasporicdialectsareworthyofstudyascontactvarie=es&
relevanttocontemporaryexamina=onsoftheirsourcelanguages
- Thesix-volumeCzechLanguageAtlas(1992-2011)incorporatesresearchonCzechvillagesinRomania;aRomanianBanatcorpusshouldsoonbecomeavailablethroughtheCzechNa=onalCorpus…
- Buttherearequiteafewotherloca=ons:Ukraine,Austria(VienneseCzech),Siberia,Bulgaria,Moldavia,Poland,Paraguay,UnitedStates…
- Theexistenceofindividualcollec=ons=poten=alofhavingavailablecorporafor“contactCzechs”&learningfromcompara=veanalysesofdiasporicdialectsofCzecharoundtheworld
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Whenfullyfunc7onal,thecorpusshouldhelpanswer…
(1) Whatlevelofaccuracydoesacomprehensivecorpusanalysisaffordregardingtheintersec=onoflanguage-internalandcross-linguis=callyeffectedchange?
(2) Whatinsightdoessuchanalysisofferregardingthesynchronicanddiachronicchange(i.e.,theLabovianapparent:me=distribu=onofformsacrossagegroups,andinreal=attwoormorediscretepointsin=me)inthisdiasporicdialectandcompara=vely?
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Somebroaderques7ons:1) Whichlinguis=cfeaturesofTexasCzechhavechangedover
thelastfortyyearsandwhy?Arethesechangessimilartothoseofotherrapidlyerodingdialectsthatareincontactwithotherlanguages?[andcomparingtoothercontactCzechs;ICNC]
2) WhattypesofCzechlexicalandstructuralfeatureshaveprovenpar7cularlyresilientandwhy?
3) Whatspecificinsightsintothelexicalandgramma=calcharacteris=csoftheCzechlanguagecanbegainedbystudyinganisolatedimmigrantdialectlikethatofTexasCzechs?
4) Whatpredic7onsregardingfurtherdialectallevelingandchangeinEuropeanCzechcanbemade?• Whatpredic=onscanbemadefortheoutcomesof
intensivecontactbetweenCzechandEnglishinEurope?• Exactlywhichfeaturesrepresentanacceleratedchange
progressingataslowerrateinEuropeanSpokenCzechandwhatpredic=onsabouttheprocessesofchangeinESCcanbemadeasaresult?
Onthelinguis7cfeaturesofTexasCzech…
Eckert,E.&HannanK.(2009).Vernacularwri=ngandasociolinguis=cchangeintheTexasCzechcommunity.JournalofSlavicLinguis:cs,17(1-2),87-161.
Eckert,E.(2007).Stonesontheprairie:Accultura:oninAmerica.Bloomington,IN:
SlavicaPublishers.Cope,L.(2008).Wribencodeswitchingandethnolinguis=ciden==esofaCzechTexan.
InC.Cravens,M.Fidler,&S.S.Kresin(Eds.),Betweentexts,languages,andcultures:afestschriGforMichaelHenryHeim(pp.1-14).Bloomington,IN:SlavicaPublishers
Dutkova-Cope,L.(2001).TheLanguageofCzechMoraviansinTexas:Doyouknow
what‘Párknukáruuhauza’means?.SouthwestJournalofLinguis:cs,20(1),51-84.Dutkova-Cope,L.(2001).TexasCzech:TheLanguageofTexanswhosaytheyspeak“A
DifferentTypeofCzech.”SouthwestJournalofLinguis:cs,20(1),29-69.
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Appliedlinguis7csforlanguage
documenta7on:Cope,L.T.(2016).TexasCzechLegacyProject:Documen=ngthepastandpresentforthefuture.Interna:onal
JournaloftheSociologyofLanguage238,105-125.Cope,L.(Ed.).(2012).Appliedlinguistsneeded:cross-disciplinaryteamworkinendangeredlanguagecontexts.Routlege/Taylor&Francis.Eckert,E.,&Cope,L.(eds.)Mul=lingualismandminori=esintheCzechsociolinguis=cspace.AspecialissuefortheInterna:onalJournaloftheSociologyofLanguage.ForthcomingFeb.2016Hinton,L.(2002).Commentary:Internalandexternallanguageadvocacy.JournalofLinguis:cAnthropology,12(2),150-6.Krauss,M.(1992).Theworld’slanguagesincrisis.Language,68(1),4-13.Mihas,E.,Perley,B.,Rei-Doval,G.,&Wheatley,K.(Eds.)(2013).Responsestolanguageendangerment.InhonorofMickeyNoonan.JohnBenjaminsPublishingCompany.Sallabank,J.(2013).AWtudestoendangeredlanguages.Iden::esandpolicies.CambridgeUniversityPress.Simons,G.,&Lewis,M.P.(2013).Theworld’slanguagesincrisis:A20-yearupdate.InE.Mihas,B.Perley,G.Rei-Doval,K.Wheatley(Eds.),Responsestolanguageendangerment.InhonorofMickeyNoonan(pp.3-19).JohnBenjaminsPublishingCompany.
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