OLAC Record oai:clal.cornell.edu:clal6

Metadata
Title:		First Language Acquisition of Sinhala
Contributor:		Lin, Jennie (data management)
		Cornell Language Acquisition Laboratory (http://wwww.clal.cornell.edu/)
		Virtual Center for Study of Language Acquisition (http://www.clal.cornell.edu/vcla)
Contributor (transcriber):		Rodrigo, Milan (data transcription and analysis)
		Tennakoon, Serena (data transcription and analysis)
		Goss, Nancy (data transcription and analysis)
Creator (researcher):		Lust, Barbara
		Gair, James
		Karunatilake, K.
		de Abrew, Kamal
Date:		1989
		Original data were collected through field work in Sri Lanka between 1979 and 1989
Description:		The CLAL/VCLA holds 271 original audio recordings of about 450 children acquiring Sinhala in Sri Lanka, between the ages of 2.00.9 and 6.10.21 (years, months, days). The audio recordings involve natural speech samples from a subset of these children and production data collected from 4 experiments designed to test the development of complex syntax, using an elicited imitation method with each of 4 experimental designs. The designs targeted: acquisition of coordinate structures, of various types of adverbial subordinate clause structures, and of pronominal and null anaphora. A central database providing essential metadata on each child subject is linked to the audio files. Transcripts are currently being scanned as PDFs in conjunction with each audio file. For three of the experiments, comprehension data (in the form of an act out task) was also collected. Through a gift from the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, these audio tapes have been digitized to computer records and transcript scanning is proceeding. Collaboration with Cornell University A.Mann Library is developing test and production environments for a data staging repository (through NSF funding)(DataStaR) for these Silnhala data, intended to facilitate collaborative use of research materials. This consists of a Fedora repository (for storage of data files) coupled with a semantic metadata store based on the vitro application developed at A.Mann Library (http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu).
		Funding for digitization and archiving of this Sinhala data was made possible by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, Boston, Mass.
Format:		Original tapes are in analogue audio cassette form, 60-90 minutes each. CDs have been created for each in two stages (stage 1 – whole tape; stage 2-broken down by child subject and by task.) Transcripts are generally handwritten, in the field/Sri Lanka and/or by linguists in the CLAL/Cornell. All experimental production data have been reliability checked by at least two transcribers. For description of format of digitized computer files of audio data see: “Audio Digitizing and Archiving Procedure. Cornell Language Acquisition Lab.”
Identifier:		clal6
Language:		Sinhala
Language (ISO639):		sin
References:		Gair, J., Lust, B., Sumangala, & Rodrigo, M. 1989. Acquisition of Null Subjects and Control in Some Sinhala Adverbial Clauses. In Papers and Reports on Child Language Development. Stanford University, 28, pp. 97-106
		Lust, B. (2008). James Wells Gair: An Appreciation. In R. Rajapaksha, K. Kulasekara, J. Paolillo and T. Bandara (eds). Dakkhina. Papers on Buddhist Thought, Linguistics and Sri Lanka Culture. Godage International Publishers. Colombo 10, Sri Lanka. 1-12.
		Gair, J., Lust, B., Subbarao, K.V., & Wali, K. (2000). Introduction to Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Some South Asian Languages. In Lust, B., Wali., K., Gair, J., & Subbarao, K.V. (Eds.), Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Some South Asian Languages, pp. 1-46. Mouton.
		Gair, J., Lust, B., Sumangala, L., & Rodrigo, M. (1998). Acquisition of Null Subjects and Control in Some Sinhala Adverbial Clauses. In Gair, J., Studies in South Asian Linguistics. Oxford University Press, pp. 271-285.
		Lust, B., Wali, K., Gair, J. , & Subbarao, K.V. (Eds.). (2000). Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages: A Principled Typology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Publishers.
		Gair, J.W. and W. Karrunatillake. 2000. Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Sinhala. In Lust, Wali, Gair and Subbarao (eds). Pp 715-776.
		1996 (January). Adverbial Subordination in the First Language Acquisition of Sinhala First Language Acquisition (B. Lust with Goss, Gair & Somashekar). Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.
		1989 (April). Acquisition of Sinhala Complex Syntax (B. Lust with Sumangala, Gair & Rodrigo). Stanford University.
		1987 (June). On the Acquisition of Sinhalese Anaphora: An Argument for Structure-Dependence in a Putative "Non-Configurational" Language (B.Lust with Gair, Rodrigo, & Goss). South Asian Linguists Association Annual Meeting.
		1982 (May). A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Acquisition of Complex Syntax in Hindi and Sinhalese: Coordination (B.Lust, with K. deAbrew & V. Sharma). The Fourth South Asian Languages Roundtable. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University.
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		The technical documentation is being delivered to you AS IS and Cornell University, Cornell Language Acquisition Lab, and the Virtual Linguistics Laboratory make no warranty as to its accuracy or use. Any use of the technical documentation may include technical or other inaccuracies or typographical errors. Cornell University, Cornell Language Acquisition Lab , and the Virtual Linguistics Laboratory reserve the right to make changes without prior notice
		No part of this publication may be copied without the express written permission of Cornell University, Cornell Language Acquisition Laboratory, and the Virtual Linguistics Laboratory, Care of Professor Barbara Lust, Trumansburg, New York.
Spatial Coverage (TGN):		Sri Lanka (island)
Subject:		Sinhala language
Subject (ISO639):		sin
Subject (OLAC):		language_acquisition
Temporal Coverage (Period):		start=1979; end=1989;
Type (DCMI):		Collection
Type (OLAC):		language_description
OLAC Info
Archive:		Cornell Language Acquisition Laboratory (CLAL) / Virtual Center for Language Acquisition (VCLA)
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/clal.cornell.edu
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:clal.cornell.edu:clal6
DateStamp:		2010-12-03
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Lust, Barbara; Gair, James; Karunatilake, K.; de Abrew, Kamal. 1989. Cornell Language Acquisition Laboratory (CLAL) / Virtual Center for Language Acquisition (VCLA).
Terms:		area_Asia country_LK dcmi_Collection iso639_sin olac_language_acquisition olac_language_description
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Sri Lanka
Area:		Asia