DATA SET NAME: Sarolangun DATA SET DESCRIPTION: A corpus of naturalistic speech from Sarulangun. PROJECT NAME: Sarolangun PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This database is part a project focusing on Traditional Malay varieties spoken in the interior of Sumatra. The Malay language originated in Sumatra, and dozens of Malay dialects are spoken on the island, few of which have been described. The purpose of this project is to study a few rapidly disappearing Malayic languages which display a mixture of grammatical characteristics typical of their language family (Malayic), and grammatical characteristics (including e.g. morphological apophony) that are otherwise unknown in frequently studied Malayic languages like Malay/Indonesian. These languages are all spoken in relatively isolated locations in Sumatra (Indonesia). The PI/co-PIs are Peter Cole and Gaby Hermon of the University of Delaware, and post-docs are Timothy Mckinnon and Yanti. The project is a collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Please refer to documentation file "Endangered_Malayic_Languages_of_Sumatra.pdf" for further information. HOW TO CITE: Mckinnon, Timothy, Yanti, Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon, and Bradley Taylor. 2016. Sarolangun Database. A joint project of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware and the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and supported by Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. ------------------------------------ Jakarta Field Station, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 1999-2015. From 1999 to 2015, the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), under the directorship of Bernard Comrie, maintained a Field Station in Jakarta, Indonesia, hosted by Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya. The Jakarta Field Station (JFS) was headed by David Gil, with Uri Tadmor (1999-2009) and John Bowden (2010-2015) as the local managers, and Bradley Taylor in charge of data management. The MPI-EVA JFS engaged in a variety of projects involving the documentation, description and analysis of the languages of Indonesia. The major focus was on the compilation of corpora of naturalistic speech, while an additional focus involved the development of lexical databases. The largest single project of the JFS was a longitudinal study of the acquisition of Jakarta Indonesian by 8 young children, resulting in a naturalistic speech corpus of over 900,000 utterances. Additional child-language projects studied the bilingual acquisition of Jakarta Indonesian and Javanese, and of Jakarta Indonesian and Italian. Adult-language projects focused primarily on varieties of Malay/Indonesian and other Malayic languages, on dialects of Javanese, and on Land Dayak languages, while smaller projects covered a variety of other languages. The largest corpora are from Malayic varieties of Sumatra (over 470,000 utterances), Malayic varieties of West Kalimantan (over 330,000 utterances), Javanese dialects (over 130,000 utterances), Eastern varieties of Malay (over 120,000 utterances), Land Dayak languages of West Kalimantan (over 100,000 utterances), and Jakarta Indonesian (over 75,000 utterances). While much of the work took place in Jakarta, the JFS also maintained a branch field station in Padang, hosted by Universitas Bung Hatta, plus additional field sites of a more ad hoc nature in locations such as Kerinci, Jambi, Pontianak, Ternate, Kupang and Manokwari. Several of the JFS projects benefited from collaboration with other institutions, including LIPI (the Indonesian Institute of Sciences), the Australian National University, KITLV, the University of Delaware, the University of Naples "L'Orientale", Yale University, and others. Scholars citing MPI-EVA JFS data are expected to provide appropriate acknowledgement. Citations of data from individual projects should be made in the way specified at the project level. Alternatively, the entirety of the JFS data may be cited collectively as follows: Gil, David, Uri Tadmor, John Bowden and Bradley Taylor (2015) Data from the Jakarta Field Station, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 1999-2015.
