Calling all linguistics students! Are you passionate about phonetics and under-studied languages? At Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, we are welcoming two cohorts of phonetics interns in July-August 2023. Apply by June 16th, 2023.

• Our summer internships are part-time, remote positions where interns can set their own schedules. This is an unpaid position. Each internship lasts for four weeks. Each internship cohort requires a time commitment of 15-20 hours per week.
• The two available cohorts of phonetics interns are:
  July 5th to August 2nd, 2023
  August 1st to 29th, 2023.
• Previous experience working with Praat experience is required for this internship.
• The language we are working on is Mundari, a Munda language from India. We will provide you with all the necessary files and transcription data to work on it. This is part of a larger research project entitled “Words, phrases, and sentences at the interface of phonology and morphosyntax.”
• Interns may be located anywhere in the world, and must attend one Zoom meeting per week for one hour (schedule forthcoming). They must have access to a laptop with the Praat software on it, and access to the Internet for the Zoom meetings and uploading files. Praat is a free software. Working on Praat files can be done offline.
• Living Tongues phonetician Dr. Luke Horo will be supervising this internship, along with our colleagues on the phonetics team in India. Living Tongues Program Director Anna Luisa Daigneault will coordinate the meetings and provide guidance along the way. Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson will also assist on the research side. We will have a Slack channel available where we can respond to questions anytime. 

Application process:

Send your resume and cover letter to Anna Luisa Daigneault at:
annaluisa@livingtongues.org

• Apply by June 16th, 2023.
  Please describe in detail your past experience using Praat (describe past projects)
• Let us know which cohort dates work best for you.
• Please label all files clearly in the following format:
  FirstName_LastName_Summer2023_Resume
  FirstName_LastName_Summer2023_LetterThanks for reading!

Languages are being lost due to a wide array of factors, including colonization, globalization, cultural assimilation, migration and urbanization. Climate change, deforestation, rising sea levels and environmental contamination are drivers of displacement and migration, which in turn causes language shift towards dominant languages.

Thanks to The Weather Channel for featuring our work on Living Dictionaries on the Pattrn show. Living Tongues Program Director Anna Luisa Daigneault was interviewed by Stephanie Abrams and Jordan Steele. She outlined the connections between climate change and endangered languages, and gave an example of a weather word from the Apatani language (spoken in India).

Congrats to Living Tongues Director Dr. Greg Anderson and Program Director Anna Luisa Daigneault for co-writing a chapter in this amazing new book! Edited by renowned human rights scholars Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson, “The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights” is a groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the struggles of many peoples and communities.

The book presents a diverse range of theoretically grounded studies of linguistic human rights, exemplifying what linguistic justice is and how it might be achieved. Through explorations of ways in which linguistic human rights are understood in both national and international contexts, this innovative volume has a particular focus on the marginalized languages of minorities and Indigenous peoples, in industrialized countries and the Global South.

Go to the Wiley Online Library website to learn more, and check out Anderson and Daigneault’s contribution to this volume in Chapter 48: “Linguistic Human Rights, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, and the Rise of the Multilingual Internet.”