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Do-it-themselves recording

5 February 20113 September 2009 by Jane Simpson

Here’s an article [Thanks Nick!] on Steven Bird’s interesting attempt to increase data on an endangered language (Usarufa, Highlands New Guinea) by giving speakers voice recorders, and training them in documenting their language.

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