The National Foreign Language Resource Center and the University of Hawai'i Press have recently announced the inaugural issue (Volume 1, Number 1) of Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C). LD&C is an open-access, online journal that is published twice a year, in June and December. Please visit the LD&C webpage and subscribe. It's free.
The inaugural issue of LD&C contains a paper by Paul Newman ("Copyright Essentials for Linguists") that may be of particular interest to readers of this blog. The entire table of contents is below the fold.
Language Documentation and Conservation
Volume 1, Number 1 (June 2007)
Table of Contents
ARTICLES:
Endangered Sound Patterns: Three Perspectives on Theory and Description
Juliette Blevins
Solar Power for the Digital Fieldworker
Tom Honeyman and Laura C. Robinson
Copyright Essentials for Linguists
Paul Newman
Managing Fieldwork Data with Toolbox and the Natural Language Toolkit
Stuart Robinson, Greg Aumann, and Steven Bird
Ethics and Revitalization of Dormant Languages: The Mutsun Language
Natasha Warner, Quirina Luna, and Lynnika Butler
Writer's Workshops: A Strategy for Developing Indigenous Writers
Diana Dahlin Weber, Diane Wroge, and Joan Bomberger Yoder
TECHNOLOGY REVIEWS
Review of TshwaneLex Dictionary Compilation Software
Reviewed by: Claire Bowern
Review of Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx)
Reviewed by: Lynnika Butler and Heather van Volkinburg
Review of Computerized Language Analysis (CLAN)
Reviewed by: Felicity Meakins
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu
Robert Early
Review of Kerresel a klechibelau: Tekoi er a Belau me a omesodel:
Palauan language lexicon
Robert E. Gibson