Historical information:In the mid-2000s, Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley) and Susan Gehr (Karuk tribal linguist, archivist, and language program coordinator) worked together to create an online searchable version of William Bright and Gehr's "Karuk dictionary" (2005), in a website hosted by the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department. In 2008 and 2009, Gehr and Karuk language program coordinator Ruth Rouvier invited Garrett to work with Karuk community members on data management and archiving for language documentation. From this emerged a Karuk language documentation project involving collaboration among Berkeley linguists, the Karuk Tribe, and Karuk tribal members. The project was led at Berkeley by Line Mikkelsen and Andrew Garrett (and initially Alice Gaby, who subsequently left Berkeley); other participants included Karuk first-language speakers Lucille Albers, Sonny Davis, Vina Smith, and Charlie Thom Sr.; second-language speakers, learners, and teachers Tamara Alexander, LuLu Alexander, Crystal Richardson, and Florrine Super; and UC Berkeley graduate students Erik Hans Maier and Clare Sandy. Active documentation began in 2010 and continued through at least 2017. (Elders Thom, Albers, and Smith passed away in 2013, 2014, and 2015, respectively.) Among other research activities, this project involved extensive work with texts, including the creation of digital versions of legacy texts (e.g. all texts published in William Bright's 1957 "The Karok language"), transcribing new texts, and analyzing texts. The text analysis also involved preparation of a treebank of syntactically parsed Karuk sentences.
Scope and content:The collection consists mainly of field recordings made by Berkeley faculty and students with Karuk elders as well as younger language learners and second-language speakers. Most of the items in the collection are organized as follows: recordings made on a single research trip (on one or more days) are bundled together as digital assets of a single item. One item in the collection contains grant applications (e.g. for a National Science Foundation grant); another item contains handouts and posters from conference presentations by Berkeley project participants. The field recordings include a wide range of texts, text types, and methodologies (elicitation, free texts, responses to stimuli, discussion of legacy recordings); they cover a variety of linguistic topics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Sonny Davis, Crystal Richardson, Vina Smith, Charlie Thom Sr., LuLu Alexander, Tamara Alexander, Andrew Garrett, Erik Hans Maier, Line Mikkelsen, Clare S. Sandy, and Florrine Super. Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project, 2017-04, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RR1WFX.
Availability: Restricted. (Access only by depositor permission. Email scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to inquire.)
Description:This item includes published research papers as well as handouts and posters related to the Karuk project by researchers associated with the project. Conferences represented include the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation and annual meetings of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Conference handouts, posters, and papers, 2017-04.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24276.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): Garrett-Mikkelsen-ICLDC-slides-2015.pdf (15076795 bytes) Garrett_Maier_Mikkelsen_Sandy-SSILA-slides-2015.pdf (5028980 bytes)
Description:Elicitation of topics including: borrowings from English; description of Story Builder cards; description of landscape scenes from a calendar; instrumental constructions; instrument nouns; various vocabulary; narration of "The Three Bears" using Carolyn "Lyn" Risling's "The Three Bears" coloring book (Published 1984 by ITEP, reprinted 2013). Also includes listening and translating of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, December 2013, 2017-04.025, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24366.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: palatalization; description of Story Builder cards; verb forms for common verbs and accent; pluractional verbs; addition and subtraction. Also includes personal anecdotes and listening and translating of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, February 2014, 2017-04.027, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24368.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: minor bodily ailments and conditions (nosebleeds, etc.); comparatives; compounds; verb paradigms for accent; bathing and grooming; cooking vocabulary; imperatives; constituent questions; animal (mostly fish) names and fishing vocabulary; '-er' words (singer, hunter, etc.); Also includes a prayer.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2013, 2017-04.017, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24356.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: narration of "The Three Bears" using Carolyn "Lyn" Risling's "The Three Bears" coloring book (Published 1984by ITEP, reprinted 2013); negation of verbal and non-verbal possessive clauses; various vocabulary and phrases. Includes a personal anecdote in Karuk from Vina Smith.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2014, 2017-04.026, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24367.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: animal and plant terms; translation of verb forms into English for default tense interpretation. Also includes two prayers.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2016, 2017-04.038, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24380.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: weather, nominal affixes, diminutives and nominal affix ordering; permutations in preverbal order; quantifiers as predicates; scope of negation; basic sentences for word order and constituent questions for curriculum use; nominal morphology in compounding. Also includes listening and translation of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, July 2014, 2017-04.030, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24371.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: Karuk verb 'musahi' (to look like); verbs with complement clauses; compounds; unstable accent words; use of Karuk suffixes '-ar' and '-kurih'; use of Karuk word 'vaa'; secondary predicates; description of line drawings (created by Alfred Hayes as elicitation prompts); animal vocabulary; verbs with various person prefixes and '-eesh' for accent; semantics/truth conditions of '-ar'; Frog Story; various vocabulary. Also includes a wealth of anecdotes and narratives told by Charlie Thom Sr, as well as relistening and translation of a Chester Pepper recording.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, June 2013 trip 2, 2017-04.021.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24361.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, June 2013 trip 2: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.021.002, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24362.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: posture verbs; complement clauses; ordering of negative 'pu-' and perfective 'ta'; compounds (as environments for labialization). Also includes reading of traditional texts by Arch Super.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, March 2013, 2017-04.018, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24357.
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Description:"Elicitation on topics including: 'survival' phrases; weather and miscelleaneous vocabulary; use of pluractional/collective suffix '-naa'; word order; narration of ""The Three Bears"" using Carolyn ""Lyn"" Risling's ""The Three Bears"" coloring book (Published 1984 by ITEP, reprinted 2013). Also includings listening and translating of legacy recordings. "
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, March 2014, 2017-04.028, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24369.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: information structure and cleft sentences; sluicing; compound accent; negative scope; food vocabulary; complements of verbs of knowing and thinking; pluractionality.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, March 2015, 2017-04.033, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24374.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: how to make necklaces, miscellaneous words and short phrases; narration of Frog Story; alien picture description game; playing the board game 'Little Balancing, ' in Karuk; aktionsart of common verbs; dress-making; vocabulary for Go Fish card game.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, March 2016, 2017-04.040, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24382.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, May 2016, 2017-04.042, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24384.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, May 2017, 2017-04.051, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24394.
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Description:Elicitation of topics including: description and discussion in Karuk of Story Builder cards; various vocabulary; vocabulary for accent; palatalization. Also includes listening and translating of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, November 2013, 2017-04.024, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24365.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: translation of 3sg verb forms w/o tense or aspect markers for default tense/aspect interpretation; quantified NPs and plural marking on N; various vocabulary. Also includes listening and translation of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, November 2014, 2017-04.032, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24373.
Description:Elicitation of topics including: description of images from the Picture Series for Positional Verbs (Pilot Study, July 1999); use instrumental '-ara' and instrumental phrases; agreement with possessed locative applied objects; word order and focus marking; position of complement clauses; vocabulary and sentences about picking up books for curriculum use; coffee-making phrases; description and discussion in Karuk of Story Builder cards. Also includes personal anecdotes and relistening and translation of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, October 2013, 2017-04.023, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24364.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: long words for accent/feet; universal quantification; tense; complex constituent questions; translation of Karuk sentences for tense defaults; wh-word extraction from embedded clauses. Also includes listening and translating of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, October 2014, 2017-04.031, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24372.
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