24: Making books and tools speak Chatino - Interview with Hilaria Cruz

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

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4.8 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As English speakers, we take for granted that we have lots of resources available in our language, from children’s books to dictionaries to automated tools like Siri and Google Translate. But for the majority of the world’s languages, this is not the case. In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch interviews Dr Hilaria Cruz, a linguist and native speaker of Chatino, an Indigenous language of Mexico which is spoken by over 40,000 people. Hilaria combines her work as an Assistant Professor of linguistics at the University of Louisville, Kentucky with creating resources for her fellow speakers of Chatino, everything from paperback or cloth children’s books to high-tech speech recognition tools which will make it easier to create more resources like this in the future. And she’s also making these resources available for other underrepresented languages! -- There were two big announcements at the top of the episode: The first is that we have a date for our liveshow in Melbourne! We will be at the State Library of Victoria on Friday the 16th of November. We are also thrilled to announce we’ll be doing a liveshow in Sydney! We’ll be at GiantDwarf on Monday the 12th of November. For tickets to both, check out lingthusiasm.com/show We also have new merch! Thanks to Lucy Maddox for bringing Space Babies to life! Check out the art in this post. A portion of the proceeds from the Space Baby merch will be donated to the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity. We also have new scarf colours, and t-shirts that say “I want to be the English schwa. It’s never stressed.” Check out our Merch page for more details. lingthusiasm.com/merch The bonus episode this month was about hyperforeignisms! We take an international tour through how our minds deal with the interesting edge cases of words that are kinda-English and kinda-other-languages. Listen to it and 18 previous bonus episodes, and support the show at patreon.com/lingthusiasm To see the links mentioned in this episode, including the photos of the Chatino children's books, check out the shownotes page at https://lingthusiasm.com/post/178291633331/lingthusiasm-episode-24-making-books-and-tools

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0:00.0	Hi Lengthsiansians, Lauren here. Before we get to Gretchen's great interview with Hilaria
0:18.1	Cruz today, I have two exciting pieces of news to share with you.
0:22.2	The first is that we have a date for our Melbourne live show.
0:25.8	We'll be at the State Library of Victoria on Friday the 16th of November.
0:30.1	I'm also very excited to share with you that we are doing a live show in Sydney as well.
0:34.6	We'll be at Giant Dwarf on Monday the 12th of November.
0:38.4	For more details and links to tickets, go to linkthusiasm.com slash show.
0:44.0	Our patrons will get a couple of free tickets and we're looking forward to meeting them
0:48.1	and all of you as well.
0:49.9	We're also super excited to be able to share with you some new Lengthusiasm merchandise that
0:55.5	we've been working on, which was another Patreon goal of ours.
0:59.1	We are very excited to bring you the Space Babies and Space Pigeon from episode one of the show
1:06.3	in full and glorious animated colour on a range of merchandise available through our site.
1:12.1	You can see the images, find out more about the illustrations and our wonderful illustrator
1:17.6	Lucy Maddox by visiting lynxxxxxcom slash merch.
1:21.8	And now over to Gretchen.
1:23.0	Thank you. Welcome to Lingthusiasm, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. I'm Gretchen
1:36.7	McCulloch, and I'm here with Dr. Hilaria Cruz, who is a new-com fellow at Dartmouth
1:41.7	College and just starting as an assistant professor in linguistics
1:45.0	at the University of Louisville and he's a native speaker of Chitino who works with Chitino as well.
1:50.3	So, welcome, Hilaria. Well, thank you. Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for being here.
1:57.0	You are welcome. And I'm here because you invited me down for a workshop at Dartmouth, and so we're going to talk about that as well.
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