This article describes a tool that can be used by blind and visually impaired students in phonetics and phonology classrooms: a tactile International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) magnet-board system. This tool consists of IPA magnets and phonological rule symbols that are printed and embossed, so as to be readable by both sighted and visually impaired individuals. A user of the tool can lay out phonetic and phonological data on the magnet board for communicative, organizational, or problem-solving purposes. Since the magnet board can be read both visually and tactually, it can serve as a collaborative space that can be used by both sighted and visually impaired members of the classroom. Potential uses include group work in class and as an augmentation to chalkboard problem-solving demonstrations. The tool can complement already extant options for blind and visually impaired students and facilitate collaboration between sighted and visually impaired students. Here, we describe the tool, exemplify some potential uses, and offer suggestions for further improvement.
John foreman Brook Danielle lillehaUGen University of texas rio GranDe valley haverforD colleGe This paper describes the system of positional verbs (e.g., 'be standing' and 'be lying') in Colonial Valley Zapotec (CVZ), a historical form of Valley Zapotec preserved in archival documents written during the Mexican colonial period. We provide data showing that positional verbs in CVZ have unique morphological properties and participate in a defined set of syntactic constructions, showing that positional verbs formed a formal class of verbs in Valley Zapotec as early as the mid-1500s. This work contributes to the typological literature on positional verbs, demonstrating the type of morphosyntactic work that can be done with a corpus of CVZ texts, and contributes to our understanding of the structure and development of the modern Zapotec positional verb system with implications for the larger Zapotec locative system. [keyworDs: Zapotec, indigenous colonial writing, language and space, positional verbs] 1 We thank Keren Rice, David Beck, the IJAL associate editors, and the IJAL reviewers for their helpful suggestions. This work was originally presented at the First International Conference on Mesoamerican Linguistics. As always, we are indebted to our Zapotec language teachers and consultants, especially Felipe H. Lopez and Margarita Martínez, who provided the audio data accessible on the online version. We are grateful to the members of the UCLA Zapotexts research group, led by Pamela Munro and Kevin Terraciano, and the Seminario de zapoteco colonial at the UNAM in Mexico City, led by the late Thomas Smith Stark:
This work consists of two poems written in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, a Valley Zapotec language spoken in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The poems are presented with English and Spanish translations, notes about the poet and translator, explanation of the translation process, and culture information.
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