Historical information:Recorded in the context of Linguistics 220B "Linguistics Laboratory," the graduate field methods course in the Berkeley linguistics department, in spring 1962 (reel 1) and spring 1963 (reel 2), with W.F. Shipley as instructor. Consultant George Kamau came to Berkeley following the first airlift sponsored by the African American Student Foundation (AASF) that brought 81 young people from East Africa to the US for university education in 1959. Male and female consultants in 1963 are unidentified. Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant.
Scope and content:Sound recordings of lexical elicitation
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: George Kamau and William Shipley. The William F. Shipley Collection of Kikuyu Sound Recordings, LA 66, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10135.
Preferred citation: Miscellaneous words and phrases, LA 66.001, in "The William F. Shipley Collection of Kikuyu Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20984.
Preferred citation: Vowels and miscellaneous phrases, LA 66.002, in "The William F. Shipley Collection of Kikuyu Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20985.
Preferred citation: Miscellaneous words and phrases, LA 66.003, in "The William F. Shipley Collection of Kikuyu Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20986.
Preferred citation: Wordlist of posessions, child and baby, LA 66.004, in "The William F. Shipley Collection of Kikuyu Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20987.
Preferred citation: Wordlist of baby and daughter, with collector's talk about how to record linguistic data, LA 66.005, in "The William F. Shipley Collection of Kikuyu Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20988.
Preferred citation: Miscellaneous words and phrases, including numbers, LA 66.006, in "The William F. Shipley Collection of Kikuyu Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20989.
Preferred citation: Wordlist of color, smell, taste, kinship, and other, LA 66.007, in "The William F. Shipley Collection of Kikuyu Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20990.
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