Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

[Class elicitation session]

Item number: 2019-08.001.014

Date: 10 Oct 2008

Contributors: Moa Imchen (consultant), Sarah Berson (researcher), Alex Bratkievich (researcher), Ramón Escamilla (researcher, transcriber), Mara Green (researcher), Russell Rhodes (researcher, transcriber), Alice Gaby (donor)

Language: Chungli Ao

Availability: Online access

Place: Berkeley, CA

Description: RE: more vocab ('quick', 'day', '8 days', 'panted (verb)', 'strict'); (13:45) tone/aspiration minimal pairs on 'blew'/'bridge'/'caught'; 'heartbeat', 'dead', 'kidney', 'urine'; looking for minimal pairs: 'pig'/'shy', 'song'/'once' ([kʰVn]; vary by tone), [kVtɹ]/[kʰVtɹ], 'horse'/'hair'; "There are flies on the dog." (disappearing glottal stop); (18:40) /tejim/ realized as monosyllabic [teim]; [tesɪipa] (evidence of downdrift); (23:39) 'peed'/'your water'/'your mother' (very similar).
Others: elicitation of words with /i/,/u/, and /ɪ/ vowels, while attempting to find contrast between /ɪ/ and /V/, realized that /i/ and /ɪ/ are in complementary distribution; elicitation of affricates; various CV pairs, looking for overlapping distribution of /i/ and /ɪ/, none found; continued eliciting body part and related terms; verbs of communication, mostly past tense; direct vs indirect quotations; sentences and lexical items pertaining to the act of explaining; lexical items for 'someone crazy'/'something missing', 'well off', and 'enough'; verbs for speech, quotation, 'asking', 'praying', 'begging', 'giving', 'being willing'; also for 'village busybody' and 'beggar'.

Collection: Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Preferred citation: [Class elicitation session], 2019-08.001.014, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2W957GS.

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