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The role of the linguist in aboriginal language development

Marguerite Mackenzie
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Marguerite Mackenzie

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The past twenty years have seen a substantial increase in the amount of reference and educational materials available for aboriginal languages in Québec. The process of training teachers, preparing materials, documenting lexicon and grammar has proceeded with the close involvement of a linguist for almost every linguistic group. As aboriginal people have gained more expertise in each of these areas, the role of the linguist has shifted from providing direct training of classroom teachers to planning programs and working with native speaking pedagogues as an advisor. Among all groups there has been an increasing interest in the production of linguistic materials and training of teachers and other community personnel for familiarity with linguistic structures. Both the Cree and Naskapi of Québec have already produced lexicons and are beginning the work of documenting the grammar of each language. The amount and type of linguistic material either produced or under production for the Naskapi and East Cree languages will be contrasted with the absence of such materials for Ontario Cree communities. Part of the reason for this difference can be traced to policies implemented in Québec in the early seventies for support of aboriginal languages in the schools. It is clear that even with the existence of dedicated and sophisticated native speakers, without the contribution of the particular organizational skills and interests of a linguist, basic processes of standardization, documentation and implementation may not take place. As a relatively small number of linguistics students are trained in Algonquian languages, the necessity of training native speakers in linguistic techniques and methodology is stressed.

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Recherches actuelles sur les langues amérindiennes
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