On the Language of the Lillooet
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On the Language of the Lillooet L illooet is an Interior Salish language spoken in an area about 160 to 300 kilometres north by northeast from Vancouver.The language falls into two closely related and largely mutually intelligible dialects: a northern one, spoken in an area containing the communities of Pavilion, Fountain, Bridge River, Lillooet, and Cayoose Creek, and a southern one, spoken in Mount Currie, Samahquam, Skookumchuck and Port Douglas.The central communities of Seton Lake and Anderson Lake (D'Arcy) probably represent a mix of both dialects, but that is an issue I have not been able to explore in any detail.Long-established patterns of mutual contacts and intermarriage between the two main dialect areas have led to a further blending of the various dialects.A map of the Lillooet-speaking area is provided in Van Eijk (1997) and Van Eijk (2013), and a slightly more detailed version in Davis and Van Eijk (2014).The language went into steep decline in the twentieth century (mostly as a result of the disastrous residential school policy), but it has seen a revival in recent years, with active language classes and the ongoing output of a large number of curriculum materials in and about the language.(See www.USLCES.orgfor a catalogue of curriculum materials produced by the Upper St'át'imc Language, Culture and Education Society.)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".