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February 2008

Arts Consultant Video: Understanding Local Arts
SIL Electronic Book Review: 2008-002 Optimality theory: Phonology, syntax, and acquisition, by Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw, and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.).
Reviewed by Heather Beal.
SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork
- SIL Forum 2007-008 Off the cassette tape and onto CD: migrating analog audio data to digital format
- SIL Forum 2007-007 Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report
- SIL Forum 2007-006 Dictionary turns the tide
- SIL Forum 2007-003 Dictionary Development Program
IPA Help 2.1 released
Multilingual Education Programs: A Resource and an Opportunity

2008-001 Reduplication: Doubling in morphology, by Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll.
Reviewed by Mike Cahill
2007-011 Globalized e-learning cultural challenges, by Andrea Edmundson (ed.)
Reviewed by Tim Hatcher
2007-010 Understanding phonology,by Carlos Gussenhoven, and Haike Jacobs
Reviewed by Helen Eaton
2007-009 The Cambridge handbook of phonology, by Paul de Lacy (ed.)
Reviewed by Mike Cahill

Agta Demographic Database: chronicle of a hunter-gatherer community in transition by Thomas N. Headland and Janet D. Headland
SIL Electronic Survey Report
- 2007-015 A sociolinguistic survey of the language varieties of the Doba area of Chad: Bebot, Bedjond, Gor, and Mango Kendall Isaac and Eric Johnson

SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description launched
SIL Electronic Survey Reports
- 2007-024 Ik language assessment report Sabine Wiedemann and Prossy Nannyombi
- 2007-023 Enquete sociolinguistique sur les langues tama et assangori parlers du Tchad et du Soudan Elaine Bombay

SIL Electronic Working Papers
- 2007-010 Explorations in discourse topicality Robert A. Dooley

2007-022 A report on three Arauan speech varieties (Jamamadi, Jarawara, and Banawa) of the Amazon Stan and Sandy Anonby
2007-021 Demographic information on sign languages around the world: field survey notes
2007-020 A Report on the creoles of Amapa Stan Anonby
2007-019 Mapping Indonesian Bajau communities in Sulawesi David Mead, Myung-young Lee and Chris Neveux

2007-018 L'enquete sociolinguistique des langues Birguit - Kadjakse - Masmedje du Tchad Marianne Marti, Calvain Mbernodji and Katharina Wolf
2007-017 A sociolinguistic survey of the Dogri language, Jammu and Kashmir Jeremy Brightbill and Scott D. Turner
2007-016 Sociolinguistic survey of Mpi in Thailand Ramzi W. Nahhas
2007-014 A Sandawe dialect survey Helen Eaton, Daniel Hunziker and Elizabeth Hunziker
2007-013 The War-Jaintia in Bangladesh: a sociolinguistic survey Jeremy Brightbill, Amy Kim and Seung Kim
2007-012 Bai dialect survey Bryan Allen
2007-011 A Survey of the Tenda languages in SE Senegal Susan Goddard Jenkins and JoLynn Eller Amdahl

Two new Electronic Working Papers:
- 2007-009 Are the goals and objectives of Jamaica's Bilingual Education Project being met? Ronald C. Morren and Diane M. Morren
- 2007-008 The sentence repetition test (SRT) revisited Deborah Hatfield (Ph.D.), Stuart D. Showalter and Marie C. South
Speech Analyzer 3.0
Two new SIL e-Books:
- SIL e-Books 5 Staley, William E. 2007. Referent management in Olo: a cognitive perspective.
- SIL e-Books 4 Blackburn, Perry L. 2007. The code model of communication: a powerful metaphor in linguistic metatheory.
Professional Development for Mayan Ixil Mother-tongue Educators

A Bilingual Education Project in Jamaica Creole
UNESCO recognition: … SIL Intermediate Course for African leaders in Literacy and Education
Namdhinggo SIL L Font
Review of Tagliamonte (2002), Analyzing sociolinguistic variation
SIL Electronic Survey Reports

Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan volumes provide detailed information on the use and relationships of 28 languages in Northern Pakistan.
Review by Chesley W. Ray of Just and lasting change: When communities own their futures, by Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl E. Taylor
Review by Steve Nicolle of Constructions of Intersubjectivity: Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition, by Arie Verhagen

2007-010 Enquete sociolinguistique des varietes linguistiques de la region de doba du tchad Eric Johnson

2007-007 Language Survey Report on the White Yi of Stone Forest County Lu Yunchun, Liu Yitang, Meng Simu, Bruce Hansen
2007-006 Enquete Sociolinguistique en Langues Manding Douglas W. Boone, Mike Boling, Lamine Silué, MaryAnne Augustin
2007-005 Rapport Sociolinguistique sur la Langue Bobo Madaré Beatrice Tiendrebeogo
2007-004 Sociolinguistic Survey Among the Rangi People T. G. Bergman, Joseph Mbongue, Rachel Sowers, Tracy Tooley
2007-003 Chris Lyndon, Ada Lyndon Entthembo: an Appraisal of Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Factors
2007-002 A Survey (RTT) of the Bambili-Bambui Language Karyn Crawford, Elaine Bombay
2007-001 Rapport d'enquête sociolinguistique: première évaluation parmi les dendis Michael Buchanan

Report and paper abstracts for Mother-Tongue and Multilingual Education Special Session
Multilingual Education, SIL International Annual Report for 2006

2007-007 More Universals of Tone Michael Cahill
2007-006 RTT Retelling Method: An Alternative Approach to Intelligibility Testing Angela Kluge
2007-005 An Acoustic Description of Central Vowels in Three Austronesian Languages of New Ireland Phil King
2007-004 Group interaction patterns as observed in informal learning events among pre-literate/semi-literate Salako women Jey Lingam Burkhardt
2007-003 The Phonology of Wano Wiem Burung
2007-002 TonePars: A Computational Tool for Exploring Autosegmental Tonology H. Andrew Black
2007-001 Cameroon Bilingualism Test Comparison Study Report Marie C. South