Cultural and Pedagogical Lexicography of Modern Náhuatl

Ameyaltepec Sound Recordings (recording and post-recording processing)

• The Ameyaltepec material was recorded directly onto a hard disk and burned on CDs (approximately 60 hours of recording); this material was uploaded to a central computer at LDC;

• Sound files were segmented and the segmented files (approximately 22,000) were tagged with unique references to each dictionary headword;

• Segmented recordings were normalized and downsampled (from 44,100 to 22,050); this set was then converted to .mp3, yielding an additional 22,000 recording files;

• From approximately 3 tokens of each Ameyaltepec word one was chosen for linking to the online dictionary;

• This linked set (in downsampled .wav format) was then converted to .mp3 and both formats were placed on a web-accessible server at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Linguistic Data Consortium paid for a computer programmer who wrote a PHP script to present the Náhuatl dictionary online and automatically create links to the Oapan and Ameyaltepec sound files. This dictionary was placed online and will soon be made operational at http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/nahuatl by clicking on the link to Hyperlex2.

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