PhD Student Colleen Patton receives GPSC Research award for Video Documentation of Islay Gaelic

April 26, 2016

Colleen Patton, a 2nd year PhD student in the Language Revitalization major, has been awarded a $2000 research grant from the UA Graduate and Professional Student Council. "Islay voices: An Audio-video documentation of Gàidhlig, with special focus on local ecological knowledge" will be Colleen's first independent language documentation project, immediately following her participation as a research assistant during fieldwork on the Isle of Skye, for NSF grant #1500220: "Collaborative research: Creating an audio-video corpus of Scottish Gàidhlig to preserve and investigate linguistic diversity" (PIs Andrew Carnie, Ian Clayton, Michael Hammond, and Muriel Fisher.) This...