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Today we talk about the time a linguist used emojis to transcribe the unique vowels of a poor language: Mark Hale and his 2000 paper on optimality theory which uses Marshallese as a main example and point of discussion. I tried messing with my audio a bit and I think it sounds better in this video, so please let me know what you think!
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RESOURCES & REFERENCES
• [Mark Hale's original paper] - www.degruyter.com/document/do...
• [A 2007 paper where it looks like he ditched his emojis. lol] - www.researchgate.net/publicat...
• [Practical Marshallese by Peter Rudiak-Gould] - www.peterrg.com/Practical%20M...
• [Peace Corps Marshallese] - www.livelingua.com/peace-corp...
• [English to Marshallese dictionary] - s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfile...
• [Intro to optimality theory] - linguistics.ucla.edu/people/z...