Historical information: This collection contains materials created by team members participating in the ongoing Choguita Rarámuri Language Project. This project was originally developed by Gabriela Caballero, who started fieldwork in collaboration with Choguita Rarámuri speakers in 2003, completing a dissertation on the phonology and morphology of the language at the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 (see 2019-001.014 for the dissertation). In 2010, Caballero moved to UC San Diego, at which time Lucien Carroll joined the project. Together with other students, Carroll primarily carried out annotation and analysis of field data, conducting his own in-situ fieldwork in 2014 and 2018. Other UCSD researchers, both students and faculty members, have collaborated in the analysis of morphological and phonological phenomena; and several community members have collaborated as consultants, authors, and creators of documentation and analysis. Choguita Rarámuri language experts who have have had a deeper involvement with this project in multiple roles include Luz Elena León Ramírez, Sebastián Fuentes Holguín, Bertha Fuentes Loya, Guillermina Fuentes Moreno, Giltro Fuentes Palma and Rosa Isela Chaparro Gardea. Caballero first became involved with the study of Choguita Rarámuri as a graduate student in 2002, through contacts with researchers and community members who were interested in the language and history of the community. While the language is spoken by a relatively large number of speakers in comparison with other indigenous languages of northern Mexico, Choguita Rarámuri shows signs of increased endangerment and is undergoing rapid shift. The economic and political situation in the Sierra Tarahumara, where Choguita Rarámuri is spoken, has resulted in increased displacement of people from their communities to larger towns in the region. In these diaspora communities, transmission of the language is severely affected. Since its inception, work on the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project has been funded by: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Individual Graduate Scholarship (IGS) #0042 (2006-2008) and Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (IPF) #0138 (2008-2010); UCMEXUS (2006-2008); the Hellman Fellowship Program, University of California, San Diego (2011-2012); and National Science Foundation (NSF)/Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) award #1160672 (2012-2018). Caballero has been the PI on all of these projects.
Scope and content: The core materials of this collection are primary sound recordings made between 2011 and 2018. These materials are separated into file bundles that reflect the organization of the materials (i) as designed to either elicit specific types of data for phonological, morphological, or syntactic analysis, or (ii) as recordings of narratives in different genres and as chosen by community member collaborators. The first general category is represented by file bundles 2019-01.001 through 2019-01.014, with PDF copies of field notes in 2019-01.012 and associated published and unpublished analytical materials in 2019-01.014. These are often large bundles consisting of many digital files with abstract alphanumeric names, following project-internal file naming conventions. To interpret them, consult the master metadata spreadsheet in bundle 2019-01.076. Elicited data (bundles 2019-01.001 through 2019-01.011, and 2019-01.013) involved experimental methods to probe processing of redundant morphology and intonational patterns in the language, as well as more traditional methods to elucidate grammatical patterns for the completion of a reference grammar (in progress as of March 2019). The second general category is represented by bundles 2019-01.015 through 2019-01.075, a set of personal, historical, and procedural narratives, conversations, interviews, prayers, and oratory, each of which is contained in its own bundle for maximal visibility of its associated metadata. Most of these bundles contain a single .wav and single .eaf file, that is, the original sound recording and an associated annotation file. Some of these bundles contain additional sound recordings of annotation sessions, with some follow-up text-based elicitation. Although all relevant metadata for these bundles has been entered into the catalog, the same metadata is also contained in the master metadata spreadsheet for comprehensiveness. The master metadata spreadsheet (2019-01.076) is organized with one row per digital file, in 11 columns: Bundle Identifier, Bundle Title, File Name, Format, Date (of creation), Duration (when relevant), Language(s), Contributor(s), Creator(s), Description, Recording Circumstances. In order to determine the contributor(s) to any of the files in a particular bundle, it is necessary to search for the relevant file name in this spreadsheet, and then correlate the three-letter initials with the full names used in the catalog metadata. This is especially true of the larger file bundles described above. In general, annotation files have the same name as their associated sound recordings, and so are easy to track when browsing the digital files. Relevant relations between files are often mentioned in the Description column. File bundle titles are given in English and Spanish. Descriptions are given in English, and, in bundles 2019-01.015 through 2019-01.075, include relevant details extracted from the master metadata spreadsheet. The primary speaker in a monologic text, as well as the interviewee in an interview, is listed as an author. (Interviewers are interviewers.) Speakers in elicitation recordings are listed as consultants. Other roles are transparent. Date ranges in bundles are based on the earliest and latest dates of creation of primary recordings, ignoring derivative materials such as annotation files.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Rosa Isela Chaparro Gardea, Sebastián Fuentes Holguín, Bertha Fuentes Loya, Guillermina Fuentes Moreno, Giltro Fuentes Palma, Luz Elena León Ramírez, Gabriela Caballero, and Lucien Carroll. Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project, 2019-01, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HH6H70.
Associated materials: Other non-overlapping materials related to this project are deposited at the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), SOAS, University of London, and are available online, here: https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI100020.
Description: Elicitation and structured conversation files focusing on lexical tonal contrasts. Original .wav audio files. Some .wav files have matching .eaf transcription files. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Tone: structured conversation and elicitation, 2019-01.001, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26019.
Item number: 2019-01.002
Date: 24 Oct 2011 to 19 Nov 2011
Relations to this item:2019-01.006 relates to this Item; 2019-01.076 references this Item
Description: A picture-matching task designed to elicit tonal targets in different intonational contexts. Original .wav audio files and one .eaf transcription file. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Picture-matching task, 2019-01.002, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26180.
Item number: 2019-01.003
Date: 25 Oct 2011 to 01 Sep 2018
Relations to this item:2019-01.001 relates to this Item; 2019-01.076 references this Item
Description: Elicitation of morphologically complex forms of verbs to elucidate grammatical tone patterns. Recordings include paradigms of verb forms. Materials include .wav audio files and .eaf transcription files, as well as a database of prosodically annotated verbal paradigms. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Grammatical tone, 2019-01.003, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26181.
Description: Elicitation of topological forms using the BowPed stimuli designed by Bowerman & Pederson (1992) (http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/volumes/1992/bowped/). Original .wav audio recordings. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Topological terms, 2019-01.004, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26182.
Description: Elicitation of vocabulary using translation, the Swadesh list, and other stimuli. Original .wav audio recordings. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Vocabulary elicitation, 2019-01.005, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26183.
Description: Elicitation of tonal targets in different intonational contexts. Some of the materials include semi-controlled data using a written script. Original .wav audio recordings and accompanying .eaf and .TextGrid transcription files. Scripts used for prompting consultants as .pdf files. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Intonation elicitation, 2019-01.006, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26184.
Item number: 2019-01.007
Date: 31 Oct 2011 to 09 Nov 2011
Relations to this item:2019-01.009 relates to this Item; 2019-01.076 references this Item
Description: Recordings of an experiment task (gating) with different speakers to elucidate multiple exponence patterns and trends in the processing of them. Associated publication: Caballero & Kapatsinski (2015). Original .wav audio recordings. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Multiple exponence: gating task, 2019-01.007, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26185.
Item number: 2019-01.008
Date: 26 Oct 2011 to 30 Aug 2013
Relations to this item:2019-01.004 relates to this Item; 2019-01.076 references this Item
Description: Elicitation of landscape terms, locative roots, locative case markers and other terms of space using different methodologies. Original .wav audio recordings. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Language of space elicitation, 2019-01.008, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26186.
Description: Elicitation of contrasts of morphologically complex forms to elucidate morphophonological patterns. Original .wav audio recordings. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Morphophonological pattern elicitation, 2019-01.009, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26187.
Description: Elicitation of morphologically complex verbs geared toward uncovering stress/tone properties of verb forms. Original .wav audio recordings. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Stress and tone properties of complex verbs, 2019-01.010, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26188.
Item number: 2019-01.011
Date: 21 Apr 2007 to 06 Mar 2014
Relations to this item:2019-01.005 relates to this Item; 2019-01.076 references this Item
Description: Elicitation of morphosyntactic and syntactic structures for a reference grammar. Original .wav files. Some audio files have corresponding .eaf transcription files. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Grammatical structures elicitation, 2019-01.011, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26189.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Field notes, 2019-01.012, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26190.
Item number: 2019-01.013
Date: 30 Oct 2011 to 10 Mar 2014
Relations to this item:2019-01.076 references this Item
Description: Recordings of general elicitation sessions and sessions geared toward language teaching. Original .wav audio recordings. See 2019-01.076 for detailed metadata.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: General elicitation and language teaching, 2019-01.013, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26191.
Description: 21 .pdf files of published and unpublished derivative work, with the following bibliography: --Aguilar, Andrés, Gabriela Caballero, Lucien Carroll & Marc Garellek. 2015. Multi-dimensionality in tonal realization of Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara). The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Annual Meeting. Portland, January 9. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2008. Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) phonology and morphology. PhD dissertation, UC Berkeley. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2010. Scope, phonology and morphology in an agglutinating language: Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) variable suffix order. Morphology 20(1): 165-204. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2011a. Morphologically conditioned stress assignment in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara). Linguistics 49(4): 749-790. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2011b. Multiple Exponence and the phonology-morphology interface. In S. Lima, K. Mullin, & B. Smith (eds.), Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society 39. Amherst, MA. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2012. La fonología y morfología de los dominios morfológicos del Rarámuri (Tarahumara) de Choguita. Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America V. University of Texas at Austin. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2013. Multiple exponence of derivational morphology in Rarámuri (Tarahumara). In T. Crane, O. David, D. Fenton, H. Haynie, S. Katseff, R. Lee-Goldman, R. Rouvier & D. Yu (eds.), Proceedings of Berkeley Linguistics Society 33, February 9-11, 2007. Berkeley, CA. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2014. Uto-Aztecan. In R. Lieber & P. Stekauer (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Morphological Derivation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 724-742. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2017. Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) language description and documentation: A guide to the deposited collection and associated materials. Language Documentation and Conservation 11: 224-255. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2018a. Tono y estructura morfológica en el rarámuri (tarahumara) de Choguita. Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America VII. University of Texas at Austin, October 26-30, 2017. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2018b. Construction-based inflectional tone patterns in Choguita Rarámuri. Proceedings from the 6th Tonal Aspects of Language conference. Berlin, Germany. Available online at: http://public.beuth-hochschule.de/~mixdorff/tal2018/180618_oral_session_3/TAL_2018_paper_60.pdf. --Caballero, Gabriela. 2018c. Direccionalidad y localidad en el condicionamiento de alomorfos en Tarahumara Central. Sound Systems of Latin America 3. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 19-21. --Caballero, Gabriela & Lucien Carroll. 2013a. Loanword prosody in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) and Ixpantepec Nieves Tu’un Savi (Mixtec). Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America VI. University of Texas at Austin, October 24-26. --Caballero, Gabriela & Lucien Carroll. 2013b. Procesos de adaptación prosódica en préstamos en el rarámuri de Choguita y en el tu’un savi de Ixpantepec Nieves. Proceedings of the Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America VI. University of Texas at Austin, October 24-26. --Caballero, Gabriela & Lucien Carroll. 2015. Tone and stress in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) word prosody. International Journal of American Linguistics 81(4): 457:493. --Caballero, Gabriela, Lucien Carroll & Marc Garellek. 2014. Tone-intonation interactions in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara). Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America. Yale University, April 4-6. --Caballero, Gabriela & Marc Garellek. 2018. Multidimensional tonal realization and prosodic variation in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara). LabPhon16. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, June 22. --Caballero, Gabriela & Austin German. 2019. Grammatical tone patterns in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara). Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting, New York. --Caballero, Gabriela & Vsevolod Kapatsinski. 2015. Perceptual functionality of morphological redundancy in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara). Language, Cognition and Neuroscience - Laboratory in the Field: Advances in cross-linguistic Psycholinguistics 30(9): 1134-1143. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2014.940983. --Caballero, Gabriela & Vsevolod Kapatsinski. to appear. How agglutinative? Searching for cues to meaning in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) using an amorphous model. In A. Sims, A. Ussishkin, J. Parker & S. Wray (eds.), Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition. --Garellek, Marc, Andrés Aguilar, Gabriela Caballero & Lucien Carroll. 2015. Lexical and post-lexical tone in Choguita Rarámuri. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland, August 10-14.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Publications and other analytical materials, 2019-01.014, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26192.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Myth of korimá ("firebird")/Mito de korimá ("pájaro de fuego"), 2019-01.015, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26196.
Description: Original .wav file with .eaf transcription file. Recorded in Fuentes' home in front of her children. She describes an episode of her childhood when she and her siblings were out at night and scared by wa'rú rosákame.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Story of being scared by wa'rú rosákame ("big white thing")/Historia del susto con wa'rú rosákame, 2019-01.016, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26197.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Myth of the woman Salomena/Mito de Salomena, 2019-01.017, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26198.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Myth of maiwá ("mountain lion")/Mito del maiwá ("león"), 2019-01.018, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26199.
Item number: 2019-01.019
Date: Jul 2003
Relations to this item:2019-01.034 has this Item as alternative version
Description: Original .wav file with .eaf transcription file. León reads her written version of a story of her childhood in which her aunt, her sister and she saw a mountain lion outside of their house.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Story of encounter with mawiyá ("mountain lion")/Historia del encuentro con mawiyá ("puma"), 2019-01.019, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26200.
Description: Original .wav file with .eaf transcription file. The death of the old man, which takes place in Choguita, is attributed to a firebird sent by a shaman to take away his soul.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Story of the death of an old man/Historia de la muerte del anciano, 2019-01.020, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26201.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Description of how to make a skirt and shirt/Descripción de cómo coser una falda y blusa, 2019-01.021, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26202.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Description of how to make a pura ("belt")/Descripción de cómo hacer una pura ("faja"), 2019-01.022, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26203.
Description: Original .wav file with .eaf transcription file. Fuentes León first wrote down the story in Spanish and then translated into Rarámuri as she read.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Myth of korimá ("firebird")/Mito del korimá ("pájaro de fuego"), 2019-01.023, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26204.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Monologue on the importance of the school in Choguita/Monólogo sobre la importancia de la escuela en Choguita, 2019-01.024, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26205.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Description of chokirama ("race betting")/Descripción de chokirama ("apuesta de carreras"), 2019-01.025, in "Materials of the Choguita Rarámuri Language Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26206.
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