{"id":179472,"date":"2014-09-18T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=179472"},"modified":"2014-09-18T04:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:00:51","slug":"chamorro-language-presentation-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/chamorro-language-presentation-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamorro language presentation today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council will be hosting a Chamorro language presentation today at the American Memorial Park Visitors Center Theatre in Garapan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_179477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179477\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ESGR-pix-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve members pose with Gov. Eloy S. Inos for Tuesday morning\u2019s declaration of Sep 15-19, 2014, as ESGR week. (Dennis B. Chan)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-179477\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve members pose with Gov. Eloy S. Inos for Tuesday morning\u2019s declaration of Sep 15-19, 2014, as ESGR week. (Dennis B. Chan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The council said there will be two visiting linguists: Dr. Sandy Chung and Dr. Matt Wagers, along with Manny F. Borja. They will do a special presentation on the Chamorro language and it is free to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be exploring how the Chamorro language differs across islands and across generations. Everyone knows there are differences in the Chamorro words people know and how they pronounce them, but what about the grammar,\u201d the council said.<\/p>\n<p>The three presenters will be talking about their psycholinguistic experiments on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota. The experiments investigate how people understand relative clauses. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike English, which only has one word for relative clauses, Chamorro has three. This makes Chamorro a good language for investigating how speakers comprehend complex sentences,\u201d the council said.<\/p>\n<p>Study results have revealed some interesting linguistic differences across three islands, but they also show the speaker\u2019s ability to understand relative clauses is fully maintained across the generations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community is asked to help identify other differences in Chamorro grammar that could be investigated,\u201d the council said.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation is sponsored by the NMI Humanities Council and funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities. <\/p>\n<p>For more information contact the council at 235-4785.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Humanities Council will be hosting a Chamorro language presentation today at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":179477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[202,67,44],"class_list":["post-179472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-esgr","tag-people","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}