The Language Documentation Research Cluster provides technical resources and laboratory space for projects and investigators currently involved in efforts to study, document, and/or revitalize minority and endangered languages. It is currently home to projects aimed at
- investigating variation and changes in Ontario French
- recording the final speakers of two indigenous languages of Arizona
- analyzing recorded texts of a vanishing Salishan language
- field documentation of an indigenous language of Mexico
- documentation and revitalization of the Athapaskan languages of Alberta
- field documentation of Pohowa, an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea
- building a corpus of Canadian English
The LDRC houses office space for staff and students working on these and other projects as well as a shared computer laboratory. The Alberta Phonetics Laboratory, located directly upstairs, is also part of the LDRC and provides additional facilities for phonetic data collection and high quality recording and digitization. The LDRC aims to provide hands-on experience and training to students and members of speaker-communities interested in the preservation of minority languages.