All Outputs (5)

Grassroots language action and legislature for Sonsorolese (2024)
Journal Article
Vita, V. (2024). Grassroots language action and legislature for Sonsorolese. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 22, 44-66

As more and more linguists are shifting towards recognising and documenting linguistic ecosystems, multilingual, and/or translanguaging practices (Di Carlo, Ojong Diba, & Good 2021), the question remains as to how these practices are navigated and re... Read More about Grassroots language action and legislature for Sonsorolese.

SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 21 (2023)
Other
(2023). SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 21. London

Documentary linguists and risk communication: views from the virALLanguages project experience (2022)
Journal Article
Di Carlo, P., Lukschy, L., Rey, S., & Vita, V. (online). Documentary linguists and risk communication: views from the virALLanguages project experience. Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0021

Abstract Linguists are seldom, if ever, engaged in work aimed at communicating risk to the general public. The COVID-19 global pandemic and its associated infodemic may change this state of affairs, at least for documentary linguists. Documenting lan... Read More about Documentary linguists and risk communication: views from the virALLanguages project experience.

Preliminary orthographic design for Ramari Dongosaro (2021)
Journal Article
Vita, V., & Pedro, C. (2021). Preliminary orthographic design for Ramari Dongosaro. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 20, 26-48. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00035589

This paper aims at providing a detailed account of a standardisation project currently underway for Ramari Dongosaro, or Sonsorolese (ISO 639-3: sov), an endangered language spoken by less than 400 speakers (Eberhard, Simons & Fennig 2021) in the Rep... Read More about Preliminary orthographic design for Ramari Dongosaro.

Prosodic Patterns in Ramari Hatohobei (2020)
Thesis
Vita, V. Prosodic Patterns in Ramari Hatohobei. (Dissertation). SOAS, University of London

With only one grammar describing the languages of Sonsorol-Tobi and only its phonetics, this dissertation focuses on describing prosodic patterns in Ramari Hatohobei, or Tobian, a severely endangered Micronesian language. The primary aim is to contri... Read More about Prosodic Patterns in Ramari Hatohobei.