Author(s)

Guo Qijun

Corresponding Author

Guo Qijun

ABSTRACT

Primary orality is defined as a spoken language acquired by the uneducated people through their mouths and ears. It contains a lot of language originals. It is also a “living fossil” for understanding traditional culture, customs, and social life in dialects and ethnic language areas. It is an endangered language resource that has so important research value that should be included in the top-level Chinese language resources protection project as soon as possible. In order to ensure the comprehension of the language collection and the sharing of language resources, it is necessary to build a primary audio visual corpus with comprehensive and standardized scene coverage on the base of field investigations.

KEYWORDS

Primary Orality, The Project for Protecting Language Resources of China, Audio Visual Corpus, Language Resources