We’ve had some incredible interns working with Living Tongues Institute in 2024, on phonetic analysis projects, organizing linguistic data for Living Dictionaries as well as analyzing conative animal calls (human directives to animals).
FEBRUARY 2024
We started out the year welcoming a cohort on interns working on phonetic analysis! Moses Oyeleye, Annabel Stevens, Prangshu Manjul, Rahul Krishna and Tara Shabazaz joined us as remote phonetics interns from around the world, assisting with Mundari annotations, using Praat, under the supervision of Dr. Luke Horo, Dr. Pamir Gogoi, Dr. Greg Anderson and Anna Luisa Daigneault.
APRIL 2024
Developing the Living Dictionaries platform is a big project that harnesses the power of global collaboration. We welcomed two cohorts of wonderful interns working on data curation for Living Dictionaries in April 2024. Under the supervision of Anna Luisa Daigneault in the US and Diego Córdova Nieto in Mexico, we worked with an international group composed of linguistics students and community-based researchers from India, Nigeria, The Netherlands, Macau, and the US (from California, NY, Alaska and elsewhere).
Thank you to interns Annika Petras, Maya Hendrix, Tara Shabazaz, Liu Jiaying, Mikayla Campbell, Prangshu Manjul, Iman Noor, Selena Syrett, Katia Keston, Moses Oyeleye and Wale Ogunyale for processing data in over 60 languages for import to the Living Dictionaries platform!
MAY 2024
Have you ever heard of conative animal calls? They are human directives addressed to animals. Known in linguistic science as CACs, this category of speech is often under-studied and overlooked. CACs are very rich and fascinating and reveal a lot about human interactions with other species.
Our first-ever internship cohort analyzing conative animal calls took place in May 2024! Thank you to Maya Hendrix based in The Netherlands, Anusha Somu in India and Becca Pizzitola in California for taking part in this cohort, under the supervision of Dr. Alexander Andrason in South Africa, and Anna Luisa Daigneault, based in the US. The group is creating a database of CACs from numerous languages around the world.
A sincere thanks to all the students and emerging scholars around the world who have volunteered their time working with us so far this year. We will have opportunities for more internships in October 2024.
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