Following the Voices of our Ancestors: Studying the pronunciation of Wendat language learners
| dc.contributor.author | Marcoux, Delwyn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-20T18:11:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-20T18:11:58Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2023 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-09-20 | |
| dc.description.abstract | As Wendat, I dream that future Wendat will learn our language without a French or English accent. Accent is most easily and effectively acquired through consistently mimicking native speakers. This proves difficult in the case of Wendat, as we are revitalising a sleeping language, and so even the best speakers inevitably have an accent currently (generally a Quebecois accent). This research begins exploring the efficacy of mimicking audio that has been edited to approximate un-accented Wendat using recordings of ancestral Wyandot. In order to do this, a phonetic analysis of the Wyandot corpus was first completed for the stops /t/ and /k/ as produced by Sarah Dushane in 1967, novel utterances were edited to match, and lastly language learner's pre- & post-mimicking productions were recording and analysed. Overall, preliminary findings indicate the process to be effective. With further research into the rest of the language's phonetic inventory and improved efficacy of the audio editing process, this technique could ensure that the Wendat spoken by our descendants is as free of colonial impacts as possible. | en_US |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Undergraduate | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Awards (VKURA) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/15427 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Indigenous Language Revitalisation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wendat Language | en_US |
| dc.subject | Phonetics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Iroquoian Language | en_US |
| dc.title | Following the Voices of our Ancestors: Studying the pronunciation of Wendat language learners | en_US |
| dc.type | Poster | en_US |