Creating multimedia corpus of ORAL speech of the Amur Evenki: objectives, TASKS, methods and perspectives
The article deals with creating multimedia corpus of oral speech of the Evenki of the Amur region. It is emphasized that endangered dialects of the Amur Evenki will be presented in the database format for the first time. At present there is no phonetic archive of oral speech samples of the Amur Evenki. The project of the multimedia Evenki archive has started on the basis of the Laboratory of experimental phonetic research and is performed by the staff of the Department of Foreign Languages of the Amur State University. PRAAT and Wave Assistant computer programs are used. The multimedia corpus is based on the results of sound records of the East-Evenki Dialects: Dzheltulak, Selemdzha, and Zeya Evenki dialects. Documenting the sound form of the language of Evenki speakers is carried out in a digital format. Objectives, methods, and perspectives for creating multimedia corpus of oral Evenki speech are revealed. The article considers the main stages and principles of working out the multimedia database.