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UA Researchers Help Preserve Scottish Gaelic
By La Monica Everett-Haynes
July 29, 2010

Andrew Carnie, a UA linguistics professor, is heading a research project to analyze and document Scottish Gaelic, a language that is slowly being lost because natives more readily are learning and speaking English.

Carnie’s team intends for the research – which involves modern instrumental and experimental measurements – to boost preservation efforts and improve what is understood about the language.

One practical goal of the project is to provide a base-line measure of the speech of native speakers to use in creating materials to use in teaching the language to younger people.

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