Historical information:Ticuna is a language isolate spoken by approximately 60,000 people living in on and near the main course of the Amazon River in northern Peru, southern Colombia, and western Brazil. The data archived here, part of a collection under continuous development, were collected by UC Berkeley graduate student Amalia Skilton during field trips to the towns of Caballococha and Cushillococha, located in the district and province of Mariscal Ramón Castilla, Loreto, Peru. As of summer 2018, Caballococha was a multi-ethnic town of about 15,000 people in which the dominant language was Spanish. Cushillococha, located 8km overland from Caballococha, was a monoethnic Ticuna community of about 5,000 people in which the dominant language was Ticuna. Skilton's fieldwork between 2015 and 2017 was supported by Oswalt Grants from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Fieldwork between August 1, 2017 and 2018 was supported by NSF BCS-1741571. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. All file bundles consisting of recordings contain a text README file with detailed metadata.
Scope and content:Primary materials (e.g., audio recordings), derived products (e.g., transcriptions and translations), and analyses of Ticuna. This collection includes *only* materials derived from elicitation and texts. Some are scanned files that correspond to physical field notebooks. In order to render the language easier to type, transcriptions and some analyses are written in a ASCII practical orthography which does not have a transparent relationship to the IPA. Bundle 074 contains a guide to the practical orthography.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Amalia Horan Skilton. Ticuna Elicitation and Texts, 2015-06, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29P2ZPJ.
Associated materials:2018-19 ("Ticuna conversations"), for materials derived from recordings of conversations and other naturally occurring discourses and collected by Amalia Skilton; 2018-20 ("Ticuna experiments"), for experimental materials collected by Amalia Skilton
Collection number: 2018-20
Relations to this collection:2015-06 relates to this Collection; 2018-19 relates to this Collection
Historical information:Ticuna is a language isolate spoken by approximately 60,000 people living in on and near the main course of the Amazon River in northern Peru, southern Colombia, and western Brazil. The data archived here, part of a collection under continuous development, were collected by UC Berkeley graduate student Amalia Skilton during field trips to the towns of Caballococha and Cushillococha, located in the district and province of Mariscal Ramón Castilla, Loreto, Peru. As of summer 2018, Caballococha was a multi-ethnic town of about 15,000 people in which the dominant language was Spanish. Cushillococha, located 8km overland from Caballococha, was a monoethnic Ticuna community of about 5,000 people in which the dominant language was Ticuna. Skilton's fieldwork between 2015 and 2017 was supported by Oswalt Grants from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Fieldwork between August 1, 2017 and 2018 was supported by NSF BCS-1741571. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. All file bundles consisting of recordings contain a text README file with detailed metadata.
Scope and content:Primary materials (e.g. audio and video recordings) and secondary materials (e.g. transcriptions, analyses) on Ticuna derived from *experimental* tasks. In order to render the language easier to type, transcriptions are written in a ASCII practical orthography which does not have a transparent relationship to the IPA. Bundle 027 contains a guide to the practical orthography.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Amalia Horan Skilton. Ticuna experiments, 2018-20, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29G5K03.
Associated materials:2015-06 ("Ticuna elicitation and texts"), for materials collected by Amalia Skilton; 2018-20 ("Ticuna experiments"), for materials derived from conversations and other naturally occurring discourses and collected by Amalia Skilton
Description:This bundle contains elicitation stimulus materials and fieldnotes written by the researcher in Year 1 which exist only in digital text form (i.e. are not associated with a physical field notebook or recordings).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Digital-only fieldnotes Year 1, 2015-06.010, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23451.
Description:Scans of paper fieldnotes from elicitation sessions in Year 1. The first six pages of physical notebook #1 are lexical elicitation of Yagua.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Fieldnotes Year 1, 2015-06.037, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25292.
Description:Scanned paper fieldnotes on elicitation and overheard speech. Scans of elicitation session plans written in paper notebooks. This bundle contains scans that correspond to two physical notebooks. PDFs with file names of the format "tca_ahs_fieldnotes_2018book1_xx" correspond to this physical object: 2015-06.071 part 1 of 2. PDFs with file names of the format "tca_ahs_2018planningbook_xx" correspond to this physical object: 2015-06.071 part 2 of 2.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Fieldnotes Year 4, 2015-06.071, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25740.
Description:This bundle contains all transcriptions of lexical and grammatical elicitation sessions created by Amalia Skilton in the course of Summer 2015 fieldwork. It does not contain files created after August 20, 2015. All transcriptions are saved as Praat TextGrid files.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Lexical and grammatical elicitation transcription Year 1, 2015-06.008, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23449.
Item number: 2018-20.003
Date: 31 May 2018
Relations to this item:2018-20.026 references this Item
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Memory Game demonstrative production experiment audio and video recordings, 2018-20.003, in "Ticuna experiments", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25440.
Description:Scans of paper fieldnotes on post-tests for all participants in Memory Game demonstrative experiment. These are scans of pages in the physical object CLA 2015-06.071 part 2 of 2 (in collection 2015-06).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Memory Game demonstrative production experiment post-test results, 2018-20.026, in "Ticuna experiments", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25741.
Item number: 2015-06.007
Date: 29 Jun 2015 to 20 Aug 2015
Relations to this item:2015-06.037 relates to this Item
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 1, 2015-06.007, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2FF3QCT.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 4, 2015-06.051, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25421.
Item number: 2015-06.028
Date: 29 May 2016 to 07 Aug 2016
Relations to this item:2015-06.009 replaced by this Item
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Revised text transcriptions Year 2, 2015-06.028, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23762.
Item number: 2015-06.009
Date: 29 Jun 2015 to 20 Aug 2015
Relations to this item:2015-06.028 replaces this Item
Description:This bundle contains all TextGrids of spontaneous speech (i.e. texts) created by Amalia Skilton during summer 2015 fieldwork. It does not include TextGrids created after August 20, 2015.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Text transcription Year 1, 2015-06.009, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23450.
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