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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Marshallese Corpus Project, MCP, language learners

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics and English Language

Abstract

The purpose of the Marshallese Corpus Project (MCP) is to create an extensive online corpus of Marshallese language texts to be used for research and other applications. Currently, there is a severe lack of resources for the study of the Marshallese language, and it is difficult to gain access to many Marshallese texts. Further, there is little by way of available naturalistic language data in Marshallese. Therefore, the ability of both researchers and language learners to study the language is severely inhibited. This project involves collecting both printed and online text samples, standardizing the spelling of these texts and creating a database of Marshallese sentences, which will constitute the bulk of the corpus. This corpus will be freely available to researchers or anyone else wishing to study Marshallese, and will facilitate syntactic research by allowing linguists to search for different words in context, for different constructions, for different word orders, and for frequencies of words and constructions, as well as to perform diachronic research. It will also provide learners with the ability to see different forms of a word and how they are used in context.

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