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
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:Fieldnotes on phonology and grammatical elicitation; planning notebook; fieldnotes on overheard speech. Filenames of the format "tca_2016_ahs_fieldnotes_xx-xx" correspond to pages 1-162 of notebook 1 of 3. File with the title "tca_2016_ahs_overheardspeechbook" corresponds to the first half of notebook 3 of 3.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Fieldnotes Year 2, 2015-06.034, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23782.
Description:Fieldnotes on elicitation; planning notes; notes on overheard speech. This bundle contains fieldnotes that correspond to six physical notebooks. PDFs with file names of the format "tca_2017_ahsfieldnotes_2016book-2017book1_xx" correspond to this physical object: 2015-06.034 part 1 of 3. PDFs with file names of the format "tca_2017_ahsfieldnotes_2017book2_xx" correspond to this physical object: 2015-06.038 part 1 of 3. PDFs with file names of the format "tca_2017_ahsfieldnotes_2017book3_xx" correspond to this physical object: 2015-06.038 part 2 of 3. The PDF with the file name "tca_2017_ahsfieldnotes_2017book4.pdf" correspond to this physical object: 2015-06.038 part 3 of 3. PDFs with file names of the format "tca_2017_overheardspeechbook_xx" correspond to this physical object: 2015-06.034 part 3 of 3.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Fieldnotes Year 3, 2015-06.038, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25293.
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.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: New text transcriptions Year 2, 2015-06.027, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23761.
Description:Transcriptions of files in this bundle appear in Bundles 2015-06.008 and 2015-06.028. Bundle 2015-06.008 contains transcriptions of the following files: tic_20150713_mfc_ahs_elicit_003.wav tic_20150713_mfc_ahs_elicit_005.wav tic_20150717_mfc_ahs_elicit_005.wav tic_20150720_mfc_ahs_elicit_003.wav tic_20150724_mfc_ahs_elicit_004.wav Bundle 2015-06.028 contains transcriptions of the following files: tic_20150720_mfc_ahs_est.wav tic_20150731_mfc_ahs_es2.wav tic_20150731_mfc_ahs_pat.wav tic_20150812_mfc_ahs_dau.wav tic_20150812_mfc_ahs_mkn.wav
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 1, 2015-06.004, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TQ5ZKB.
Item number: 2015-06.014
Date: 29 May 2016 to 07 Aug 2016
Relations to this item:2015-06.027 is referenced by this Item
Description:Recordings of phonology elicitation, grammatical elicitation, and texts. Recording of wordlist for laryngealization project. Transcriptions of files in this bundle appear in Bundle 2015-06.027. Bundle 2015-06.027 contains transcriptions of the following files: tca_20160609_mfc_ahs_maw.wav tca_20160609_mfc_ahs_ibi_tca.wav tca_20160621_mfc_ahs_kak.wav tca_20160621_mfc_ahs_kte.wav tca_20160621_mfc_ahs_mbu.wav tca_20160623_mfc_ahs_tik.wav
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 2, 2015-06.014, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23748.
Item number: 2015-06.044
Date: 13 May 2017 to 10 Sep 2017
Relations to this item:2015-06.038 is referenced by this Item
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 3, 2015-06.044, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25299.
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.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Text only data Year 2, 2015-06.031, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23765.
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.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Texts from Anderson (1962) edited in Year 2, 2015-06.029, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23763.
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