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
Preferred 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.
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.
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Preferred 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.
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
Preferred 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.
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.
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Preferred 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.
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.
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Preferred 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.
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.
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Preferred 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.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.122, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MG7MHS.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.018, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X24X55TT.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.089, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MK69X3.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.010, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X25X26Z6.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.032, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2QN64RD.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.050, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NS0RW4.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.107, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2DZ06BW.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.127, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2ZS2THK.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.001, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BK19CJ.
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Preferred citation: Class elicitation session, 2014-10.134, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22J68WX.
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Preferred citation: Class lexical elicitation, 2014-10.011, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Aymara", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2251G6R.
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Preferred citation: Compiled field notes, 2017-09.011, in "Kalabari Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26601.
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Preferred citation: Compiled field notes, 2017-08.017, in "Izon Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26604.
Description:Compilation of separate field note pages in bundles 2017-08.019 through 2017-08.031. File izon_2019_notebook_02.pdf contains embedded audio from using a Livescribe Echo Smartpen.
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Preferred citation: Compiled field notes, 2017-08.032, in "Izon Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X27M065N.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on binding of pronouns and topic & focus, 2016-12.066, in "Esan Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2416V9S.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on downstep tone, 2017-09.010, in "Kalabari Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25006.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on grammatical tone with tense-aspect and serial verbs, tense with stative verbs, 2016-12.011, in "Esan Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TT4P59.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on grammatical tone, resumptive pronouns with ditransitives, lexical tone in derived words, 2016-12.059, in "Esan Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X21834R8.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on grammatical tone, serial verbs, tone on adverbs, 2016-12.058, in "Esan Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2513WF5.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on lexical tone, miscellaneous lexical and grammatical topics, 2016-12.061, in "Esan Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RR1WGC.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on lexical tone, miscellaneous lexical and grammatical topics, 2016-12.060, in "Esan Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2WH2N7J.
Description:Includes comparison of Ogwa with Edo HL tones, lexical minimal pairs. Used Agheyisi (1986) for reference. Tascam recorder with AT803 lapel microphone.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on lexicon, future tense grammatical tone, 2016-12.015, in "Esan Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29W0CQ8.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on miscellaneous topics, 2017-08.028, in "Izon Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RJ4GQM.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on miscellaneous topics, 2017-08.029, in "Izon Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MW2FC5.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation on negation, tone in relative clauses, liquid verbs, post-verbal marker a, greetings, 2016-12.007, in "Esan Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BV7DTN.
We acknowledge with respect the Ohlone people on whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded land we work and whose historical relationships with that land continue to this day.