Project Assistant
Resume:
DANIEL W. HIEBER
www.danielhieber.com
January *, 2012
Rosetta Stone
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Harrisonburg, VA 22801 Harrisonburg, VA 22801
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EDUCATION
The College of William & Mary in Virginia 20042008
B.A. in Linguistics, Philosophy
Advisor: Jack B. Martin, Ph.D.
School for International Training Mombasa, Kenya 2006 2007
Independent Research Project (Fall): What s in a Word? Code-Switching in Mombasa
Swahili
Independent Research Project (Spring): Language Change & Variation in Mombasa:
Recent Trends in Kimvita Swahili
Advisor: Abdulaziz Mohamed, Ph.D.
LSA Linguistic Institute Boulder, CO 2011
Canonical Typology (Greville G. Corbett)
Approaches to Variation & Gradience in Lexical Categories (Elaine J. Francis)
Syntax / Typology (Irina Nikolaeva)
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Researcher, Rosetta Stone Research Labs2011Present
? Conduct ongoing typological research
? Conduct applied research relating to linguistics, acquisition, and pedagogy as it
relates
to company initiatives
? Design and prototype new products and features
? Provide company-internal presentations on a variety of linguistic and typological
topics
Editor, Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program 2008 2011
Completed Projects: Chitimacha, Navajo, North Slope Inupiaq
Responsibilities:
? Conduct daily elicitation sessions with native speakers
? Carry out ongoing grammatical analysis of the language
? Design culturally-relevant, immersion-based lessons that teach grammar concepts,
vocabulary, and general language skills
? Serve as Editor, overseeing all content for an individual language project
? Provide linguistic consulting to indigenous communities on language planning,
immersion teaching, documentation, and basic linguistics
? Manage program interns
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Intern, Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program 20072008
Spanish Instructor, Nielsen Builders2006
Lab Assistant, Language Labs, The College of William & Mary20042006
Latin Instructor, Bridgewater Home School Unit 20032004PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
(in progress) A Canonical Typology of Flexible Categories
2012 Why Do Languages Die? Ludwig von Mises Institute, 4 January.
2010 Language and the Socialist-Calculation Problem. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 7
September.
Reviews
2011 Shobhana L. Chelliah & Willem J. de Reuse, Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic
Fieldwork. Linguist List 22.3129. 5 August.
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2011 George Yule, The Study of Language, 4 ed. eLanguage. 18 April.
2010 Kristina Riedel, The Syntax of Object Marking in Sambaa. Linguist List 21.4069. 14
October.
2009 Nicholas Evans, Dying Words. Linguist List 20.2673. 3 August.
PresentationsSept 2011Canonical Typology. Rosetta Stone, Harrisonburg, VA.
May 2011 A Case Study in Digital Collaboration. With Marion K. Bittinger and Lorraine
Manavi. Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS), Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
April 2011 Language Revitalization. With Marion K. Bittinger.
Talk given to ANTH 305: Language and Culture, Professor Amy L. Paugh,
Department of Anthropology, James Madison University. Invited.
Oct 2010 Chitimacha Language Revitalization. Charenton, LA.
A one-week workshop with the Chitimacha Tribe focusing on immersion teaching
methods and language planning. Invited.
Jun 2010 Elicitation Techniques. Rosetta Stone, Harrisonburg, VA. Also given in 2009.
Invited.
Nov 2009 Navajo Language Revitalization. With Marion K. Bittinger.
Talk given to ANTH 305: Language and Culture, Professor Amy L. Paugh,
Department of Anthropology, James Madison University. Invited
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FIELDWORK
20082011 Ongoing elicitation with speakers of Navajo and Inupiaq, for the purpose of
creating Rosetta Stone language software. Includes numerous onsite visits,
generally for two weeks at a time, and daily long-distance elicitation sessions
using online VOIP services.
2010 Two weeks of elicitation with a native speaker of the Point Hope dialect of
Inupiaq, which has little documentation to date. Phonemic analysis is ongoing,
with further trips being aimed at in the future.
20062007 Two semesters researching language shift in the Kimvita dialect of Swahili in
Mombasa, Kenya. Worked primarily with youth speakers in collecting recorded
texts for analysis.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2011 2014 Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP),
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Assisting in preparing press releases and raising awareness for the White House
Initiative on Native American Language Revitalization.
2010 Present Reviewer, Libertarian Papers
Reviewer for all papers relating to language and language policy.
AWARDS
2006 2007 National Security Education Program Boren Scholarship. Amount: $20,000 for
two semesters. For study abroad in Kenya with research on language shift in
Kimvita Swahili.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB)
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL)
Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD)
Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)
LANGUAGES SPOKEN & STUDIED
English Native fluency
Swahili Near-native fluency (ACTFL rating: Superior)
Spanish Conversational fluency
Latin Reading fluent
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Turkish, Navajo, Extensive structural knowledge
Chitimacha, Inupiaq
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx), ELAN, Praat, Audacity, Wordpress, Google Sites,
Microsoft Office, professional-quality audio recording, SQLREFERENCES
JACK MARTIN Boyd Associate Professor of English and Linguistics
The College of William & Mary
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MARION BITTINGER (Former) Director, Endangered Language Program
Rosetta Stone
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KIM WALDEN Cultural Director, Chitimacha Cultural Department
Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana
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LORRAINE MANAVI Assistant Professor of Navajo Language
San Juan College
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EDNA MACLEAN President Emeritus
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