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Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara
- Collection number: 2014-10
- Primary contributors: Hector Zapana Almanza (consultant); Kenneth Baclawski (researcher); Spencer Lamoureux (researcher); Herman Leung (researcher); Lev Michael (researcher); Zachary O'Hagan (researcher; ORCID); Alfonso Otaegui (researcher); Nicholas Rolle (researcher); Kamala Russell (researcher); Hannah Sande (researcher); Eva Schinzel (researcher); Amalia Horan Skilton (researcher)
- Language: Aymara
- Dates: September 2014 to May 2015
- Historical information: These materials were produced by students of the field methods course in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley between September 2014 and May 2015. The course was taught by Professor Lev Michael and the language consultant was Hector Zapana Almanza, a native speaker of the variety of Aymara spoken around Lake Titicaca in Peru. All other listed contributors were students in the course.
- Scope and content: This collection consists of audio recordings and scanned copies of field notes that derive from elicitation sessions conducted during biweekly class meetings held throughout the course of the academic year. Some texts are included.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Hector Zapana Almanza, Kenneth Baclawski, Spencer Lamoureux, Herman Leung, Lev Michael, Zachary O'Hagan, Alfonso Otaegui, Nicholas Rolle, Kamala Russell, Hannah Sande, Eva Schinzel, and Amalia Horan Skilton. Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara, 2014-10, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2S180HS.
Berkeley Linguistics PhD Defenses
- Collection number: 2018-27
- Additional contributors: Kenneth Baclawski (speaker); Emily Clem (speaker, participant); Virginia Dawson (speaker, participant); Kelsey Neely (speaker, participant); Zachary O'Hagan (speaker, participant); Amalia Horan Skilton (speaker, researcher, participant); Nicolas Arms (participant); Bernat Bardagil Mas (participant); Christine Beier (participant); Maksymilian Dabkowski (participant); Justin Davidson (participant); Amy Rose Deal (participant); Emily Drummond (participant); Stephanie Farmer (participant); William Hanks (participant); Larry M. Hyman (participant); Peter Jenks (participant); Darya Kavitskaya (participant); Myriam Lapierre (participant); John Merrill (participant); Lev Michael (participant); Line Mikkelsen (participant); Zaphiel Miller (participant); Kayla Palakurthy (participant); Emily Remirez (participant); Nicholas Rolle (participant); Tessa Scott (participant); Elise Stickles (participant); Eve Sweetser (participant); Seth Yalcin (participant)
- Languages: Amahuaca (amc); Caquinte (cot); Eastern Cham (cjm); Ticuna (tca); Tiwa (lax); Yaminawa (yaa)
- Dates: 2018-
- Scope and content: Audio and/or video recordings of PhD defenses in the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, with associated materials such as PDFs of slides and handouts, audio and video example clips, etc.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: . Berkeley Linguistics PhD Defenses, 2018-27, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2XK8CQS.
Berkeley Undergraduate Field Methods: Lulamogi
- Collection number: 2020-14
- Primary contributors: Andrew Mukacha (consultant); Sarah Bothfeld (researcher); Matthew Faytak (researcher); Alejandro Granados (researcher); Larry M. Hyman (researcher, donor); Justin Lei (researcher); Emil Minas (researcher); Mark Morales (researcher); Nicholas Rolle (researcher); Donald Schultz (researcher); Jeffrey Spingeld (researcher)
- Language: Lulamogi
- Dates: Aug-Nov 2013
- Historical information: These materials were produced as part of Linguistics 140, the undergraduate field methods course at UC Berkeley, taught by Larry Hyman. The consultant was Andrew Mukacha, and the remaining listed researchers were students in the course, with the exception of Matthew Faytak and Nicholas Rolle, who sat in on the class as graduate students.
- Scope and content: Audio recordings of class and small-group elicitation sessions
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Andrew Mukacha, Sarah Bothfeld, Matthew Faytak, Alejandro Granados, Larry M. Hyman, Justin Lei, Emil Minas, Mark Morales, Nicholas Rolle, Donald Schultz, and Jeffrey Spingeld. Berkeley Undergraduate Field Methods: Lulamogi, 2020-14, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2QJ7FTC.
CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials
- Collection number: 2015-05
- Primary contributors: Seth Ango Liatu (consultant); Ishaya Musa (consultant); Mark Sunday (consultant); Joshua Zaure (consultant); Geoff Bacon (researcher, donor); Nicholas Rolle (researcher, donor)
- Additional contributors: Matthew James (consultant); Mary Joshua (consultant, depicted); Ezekiel Musa (consultant); Geoff Bacon (depicted); Seth Ango Liatu (depicted); Nicholas Rolle (depicted); Joshua Zaure (depicted)
- Language: CiShingini (asg)
- Dates: 2015
- Historical information: In the summer of 2015, UC Berkeley graduate students Nicholas Rolle and Geoff Bacon worked with the sizeable CiShingini population living in the city of Ilorin, Nigeria (living outside of their traditional villages). CiShingini (ISO 639-3: asg) is a Kainji language, part of the Benue-Congo family within the Niger-Congo phylum. The language is indigenously spoken in scattered villages throughout the middle Western regions of Nigeria, near Lake Kainji. CiShingini is also known as Agwara Kambari or simply Kambari. The language is situated between the two largest language areas in Nigeria, with the Hausa to the north and the Yoruba to the south. In our experience, CiShingini speakers are completely fluent in Hausa but as a whole do not speak any Yoruba, even if they are Christian. Use of English varies.
  Serious attempts to describe CiShingini have been undertaken previously by John and Janie Stark. It was the stated goal of our fieldwork to build on the materials they already collected in three primary domains: lexical and grammatical tone (which had very little description in previous publications), quantification, and syntax. This was mostly done through elicitation in order to control for all relevant variables. The contact language for recording sessions was English (not Hausa or Pidgin). Nicholas Rolle worked with the CiShingini for under a month, while Geoff Bacon worked with them for 1 1/2 months. Our main consultants whom we worked with were Ishaya Musa, Mark Sunday, Joshua Zaure, and Seth Ango Liatu, all first language speakers of CiShingini who would exclusively use CiShingini in daily communication.
  We would like to thank these consultants for sharing their language, and acknowledge funding from a Rocca Pre-dissertation Fellowship from the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley.
- Scope and content: Audio files, field notes, metadata spreadsheets, tone database
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Seth Ango Liatu, Ishaya Musa, Mark Sunday, Joshua Zaure, Geoff Bacon, and Nicholas Rolle. CiShingini (Agwara Kambari) Field Materials, 2015-05, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23N21JC.
Esan Field Materials
- Collection number: 2016-12
- Primary contributors: Anthony I. Akhiale (consultant); Angela Egbadon (consultant); Philomena Egbadon (consultant); Irehobhude Iyioha (consultant); Nicholas Rolle (researcher, donor)
- Additional contributors: Omon Iyioha Jr. (consultant); Isedehi Isibor Odion (consultant); Amu Samuel (consultant); Anthony I. Akhiale (depicted); Nicholas Rolle (depicted, photographer)
- Languages: Ogwa Esan; Uromi Esan
- Dates: 2014-
- Historical information: Fieldwork began while Rolle was a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, with financial support from an Oswalt Endangered Language Grant (Berkeley). Fieldwork in 2019 focused on the Ogwa dialect while Rolle was Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University.
- Scope and content: Sound recordings of elicitation sessions and stories, scanned field notes, metadata sheets, databases. Bundles typically consist of a multimedia .pdf file with embedded audio (produced by a Livescribe Echo Smartpen) and an associated .pencast file; .m4a audio exports from the Smartpen; an audioless .pdf export from the Smartpen; and, in most cases, a .wav file from a separate recorder, which may be fully or partially overlapping with the pen audio.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Anthony I. Akhiale, Angela Egbadon, Philomena Egbadon, Irehobhude Iyioha, and Nicholas Rolle. Esan Field Materials, 2016-12, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X20K26SZ.
Izon Field Materials
- Collection number: 2017-08
- Primary contributors: Dengimo-Owei Gift Jumbo (consultant); Nicholas Rolle (researcher, donor)
- Additional contributors: Kemenupre U. Fresh (consultant); Kioyengitari Inesei (consultant); Dengimo-Owei Gift Jumbo (depicted); Nicholas Rolle (depicted, photographer)
- Languages: Gbarain Izon; Izon (ijc)
- Dates: 2017-
- Historical information: Fieldwork in 2017 followed Rolle's fifth year as a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, with financial support from an Oswalt Endangered Language Grant (Berkeley). Fieldwork in 2019 focused on the Gbarain dialect while Rolle was Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University.
- Scope and content: Sound recordings of elicitation sessions; scanned field notes. Primarily of Gbarain dialect; one session focused on Kolokuma dialect (2017-08.016). Bundles consist of a multimedia .pdf file with embedded audio (produced by a Livescribe Echo Smartpen) and an associated .pencast file; .m4a audio exports from the Smartpen; an audioless .pdf export from the Smartpen; and, in most cases, a .wav file from a separate recorder, which may be fully or partially overlapping with the pen audio, as specified in the metadata.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Dengimo-Owei Gift Jumbo and Nicholas Rolle. Izon Field Materials, 2017-08, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2736P26.
Kalabari Field Materials
- Collection number: 2017-09
- Primary contributors: Jackreece Charles (consultant); Nicholas Rolle (researcher, donor)
- Additional contributors: Otelemate Harry (consultant); Deborah Lolomari (consultant); Ekene Gordons (participant)
- Language: Kalabari (ijn)
- Dates: 2017-
- Historical information: In-situ fieldwork in Port Harcourt, Nigeria following Rolle's fifth year as a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, with financial support from an Oswalt Endangered Language Grant (UCB)
- Scope and content: Sound recordings of elicitation sessions; PDF scans of field notes. Bundles consist of a multimedia .pdf file with embedded audio (produced by a Livescribe Echo Smartpen) and an associated .pencast file; .m4a audio exports from the Smartpen; an audioless .pdf export from the Smartpen; and, in most cases, a .wav file from a separate recorder, which may be fully or partially overlapping with the pen audio, as specified in the metadata.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Jackreece Charles and Nicholas Rolle. Kalabari Field Materials, 2017-09, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23B5XBG.