From the field to the web: Implementing best-practice recommendations in documentary linguistics

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-174

  Boas, Hans Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Best practice recommendations; Digital language archive; Documentary linguistics; Language death; Portable language resource; Texas German

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847317042     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-006-9012-6     Document Type: Article

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