Happy International Mother Language Day! After 5 seasons, this is the final episode of Field Notes! Thanks so much for listening! Listen to this episode here , or on your favorite podcast app! This episode is with Alexandra Philbin. She also taught Irish to adult learners and carried out research on Irish-medium education on behalf of the Irish government. As well as completing her PhD research, Alexandra teaches Irish and works as a Language Revitalization Mentor with the Endangered Languages Project , offering free, online support to those working to promote Indigenous and minoritized languages around the world.
Growing up as a yak herder, Yulha developed an interest in linguistics during high school. Taking her dedication a step further, Yulha journeyed to the United States from the Himalayas to study linguistics at the University of Oregon.
Karolina Grzech at the University of Valencia. Karolina is a documentary and descriptive linguist, working mostly on Quechuan languages and natural language use. Her main topics of research are evidentiality encoding how we know things and epistemicity encoding different aspects of knowledge. She is particularly interested in how these categories play out in natural discourse. She also researches pragmatics in general, and, language endangerment and methodology of linguistic fieldwork, with special reference to the indigenous language of South America.
Karolina is also interested in the socio-economic issues which affect minority and endangered languages and the communities which use them. Caption: Typical session of the Upper Napo Kichwa documentation project. Wilma Aguinda interviewing Carolina Grefa about her life experience and her work as a midwife. Kate Lindsey. Kate is a professor of linguistics and co-director of the Structures of Under-Researched Languages lab at Boston University.
Her research has both theoretical and documentary applications. Her theoretical work focuses on the analysis of underspecification and variation in phonological systems supported primarily by field data. Her dissertation utilized original data from eleven months of fieldwork with Ende speakers of Limol village, Papua New Guinea to explore the interaction of so-called ghost elements pervasive in Ende phonology.
