Marilyn Mason
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Atik Marilyn Mason sa a an devlòpman. Li bezwen tradui, diskite sou li nan Diskite:Marilyn Mason |
Li fèt 7 out 1943.
Se fondatè ak manadjè konsiltan enstitisyon The Creole Clearinghouse.
Zèv li yo
- MASON, Marilyn. 2000. "Authoring and Documentation Workflow Tools for Haitian Creole - a Minority Language", Technical Communicators' (TC) Forum Magazine, volume 1-2000 (January-March 2000), pp. 8–9.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2000. "Spelling issues for Haitian Creole Authoring and Translation Workflow", International Journal for Language and Documentation, Issue 4, March 2000, pp. 28–30.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2000. "Automated Creole Orthography Conversion", Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Volume 15:1, pp. 179–184.
- MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2001. "Standardized Spelling as a Localization Issue: Information technology forces less-prevalent languages to develop uniform lexical rules". MultiLingual Computing & Technology, #41, Volume 12, Issue 5, July/August 2001,
pp 37–40.
- MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2001. "Closing the Digital Divide: Issues in expanding localization efforts to minority languages". In The LISA Newsletter, Volume X, No. 2, ISSN No. 1420-3693, April 2001, pp 23–24, 32. First in a series of three invited articles which appeared in the newsletter published by the Localisation Industry Standards Assocation (LISA), Féchy, Switzerland.
- MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2001. "Is there a Universal Creole for localization efforts?" In The LISA Newsletter, Volume X, No. 3, ISSN No. 1420-3693, August 2001, pp 39–42. Second in a series of three invited articles which appeared in the newsletter published by the Localisation Industry Standards Assocation (LISA), Féchy, Switzerland.
- MASON, Marilyn & Jeffrey ALLEN. 2002. "Intra-textual Inconsistency: Risks of Implementing Orthographies for Less-Prevalent Languages". In The LISA Newsletter: Globalization Insider, Volume XI, No. 1.3, ISSN 1420-3693, February 15, 2002, pp 1–5. Third in a series of three invited articles which appeared in the newsletter published by the Localisation Industry Standards Assocation (LISA), Féchy, Switzerland.
- MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2003. "Computing in Creole Languages: The Web stimulates growth and development of historically oral languages". In MultiLingual Computing & Technology magazine. Number 53, Vol. 14, Issue 1. January/February 2003. pp 24–32.
- GUTNICK, David and Marilyn MASON. 2003-2004. Collaborated in the production of Haiti: A Country Never Dies, a series of radio programs broadcast by Canadian Broacasting Company (CBC) Radio One in February 2004. Comprised of taped interviews conducted in Haiti by CBC's Montreal-based journalist David Gutnick during his visit of Jan-Feb 2004, the programs are Internet-available as Real Audio files with accompanying photographic slides. French (HAÏTI: Un Pays Ne Meurt Jamais) and Haitian Creole (AYITI: Yon Peyi Pa Janm Mouri) versions are also available. Gutnick and Mason previously collaborated
in the production of a CBC Radio One Special on Haitian Creole being alive and well in Montreal (see: http://www.cbc.ca/insite/CEST_LA_VIE_MONTREAL/2003/3/14.html).
- MASON, Marilyn; DEGRAFF, Michel; DEJEAN, Yves. 2000. Orthographically updated, edited and Internet-published "Èske se pou nou chanje non kreyòl la?", a chapter from
Dr. Yves Dejean's 1995 book Ann nou etidye lang nou an.
- MASON, Marilyn; DEGRAFF, Michel; DEJEAN, Yves. 2000. Orthographically updated, edited and Internet-published "Ki non lang nou an?", Dr. Yves Dejean's 1984 Haïti-Observateur article.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2001. Further edited and Internet-published KONSTITISYON REPIBLIK D AYITI (Haiti's 1987 Constitution), tradiksyon Pòl Dejan, © Éditions Libète, Imprimerie Deschamps, Port-au-Prince, 1996; initially digitized and put online in 2001 by Edisyon Konbit; also available at this mirror site.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2001. Orthographically updated, edited and Internet-published Pè Woje Dezi: "Alfabetizasyon ann Ayiti", Père Roger Desir's article, "Literacy in Haiti", originally published in 1977 in the Haitian-Creole language journal Boukan.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2001. Orthographically updated, edited and Internet-published Poris Jan-Batis: "Masiyon Kwakou (1867-1908)", Pauris Jean-Baptiste's 1977 Boukan article about Massillon Coicou, which includes his most popular poem: "Plenyen Yon Esklav".
- MASON, Marilyn. 2002. Orthographically updated and edited the Haitian Creole text of the Campus Crusade for Christ International (CCCI) brochure, 4 Spiritual Laws.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2002. Orthographically updated and edited Rezistans ke viris VIH lan demontre nan medikaman avèk tès, the Haitian Creole version of HIV Drug Resistance Testing and Treatment, a brochure originally produced with support from the Westchester County (NY) Department of Health by the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA); copyright 2001.
- MASON, Marilyn. 1999 to present. Created, Internet-published and continue to maintain
the Creole Links Page, an indexed, growing and very up-to-date assortment of links to online Haitian Creole texts, dictionaries, language tools and resources, literacy and curriculum materials, and other educational resources, as well as links to Haiti culture- and history-related sites and documents.
- MASON, Marilyn. 1999 to present. Created, Internet-published and continue to maintain
the KEPKAA (Komite Entènasyonal pou Pwomosyon Kreyòl ak Alfabetizasyon / Comité International pour la Promotion du Créole et de l'Alphabétisation / International Committee for the Promotion of the Creole Language and Creole Literacy) (formerly KIPKAA) trilingual Website; regularly edit all the French and Haitian Creole texts and create the English translations of all KEPKAA-related online-published documents.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2002. Edited and on-line published (in the case of 6 of the articles, converted from newsprint to digitized text) a series of French-language articles on Creole languages and Haitian issues written by Haitian linguist Hugues St. Fort and print-published by The Haitian Times; online republication rights granted to Marilyn Mason by both author and publisher.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2003-2004. Created and continue to maintain webpage for AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON HAITIAN CREOLE: A review of publications from colonial times to 2000. Educa Vision. Coconut Creek, FL. 2003. 700 p.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2003-2004. Served as consultant to David Gutnick of Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC)'s Radio One in the production of Haiti: A Country Never Dies, a series of radio programs highlighting Haiti during its Bicentennial Year. The programs are Internet-available as Real Audio files with accompanying photographic slides. French (HAÏTI: Un Pays Ne Meurt Jamais) and Haitian Creole (AYITI: Yon Peyi Pa Janm Mouri) versions are also available. Gutnick, a journalist for CBC English Radio
in Montreal, and Mason previously collaborated in the production of a CBC Radio Special on Haitian Creole (http://www.cbc.ca/insite/CEST_LA_VIE_MONTREAL/2003/3/14.html).
- MASON, Marilyn. 2005. Created and continue to maintain the Medical Missionary David K. Mason Dies on Ruwenzori Mountain Climb in Central Africa webpage.
- MASON, Marilyn. 2005. Created and continue to maintain the Convocation on United Methodist Haitian Ministries, Miami (FL), November 10-12, 1990 website.