Cultural and Pedagogical Lexicography of Modern Náhuatl

Conclusion

Thus, as proposed last year, the final recordings were completed in the summer of 2002 and the original terms of the FAMSI grant were achieved. There were also additional developments not foreseen in the original proposal. Susan Guion, a linguistics professor at the University of Oregon, has been given a complete copy of the segmented sound files (approximately 47,000 files each with a unique name that reflects the reference number of the headword that they exemplify). She will use this material in her phonetics class and begin work on a phonetic description of Oapan and Ameyaltepec Náhuatl. The same sound files were also used by Chris Manning, a linguist and computer scientist at Stanford, in developing a prototype model of Kitlkitl, an adaptation for Náhuatl of Kirrkirr, which has been successfully used for indigenous language instruction in Australia. Finally, the sound files will be integrated into a language documentation and literacy program coordinated by Amith that the Ford Foundation is sponsoring in the Náhuatl-speaking villages of the Balsas River Valley.

Again, thanks very much to FAMSI for the kind support for this project.

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