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: 2018-19
Relations to this collection:2018-20 relates to this Collection; 2015-06 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 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 2015-2019, 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 4,000 people in which the dominant language was Ticuna. Skilton was a graduate student at UC Berkeley between 2014 and 2019. Her 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 October 1, 2019 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 conversations and naturally occurring discourses, i.e. discourses that could have occurred in similar form if the researcher was not present. 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 038 contains a guide to the practical orthography.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Amalia Horan Skilton and Angel Bitancourt Serra. Ticuna conversations, 2018-19, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2F769QD.
Associated materials:2015-06 ("Ticuna elicitation and texts"), for materials 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 which exist only in digital text form (i.e. are not associated with a physical field notebook).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Digital-only fieldnotes Year 3, 2015-06.063, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25433.
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: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.
Item number: 2018-20.015
Date: 04 Jul 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, 2018-20.015, in "Ticuna experiments", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25452.
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.
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:Recordings of lexical, grammatical, and phonology elicitation. Recordings of tone frames. Recordings of texts. Recording of wordlist for laryngealization project.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 2, 2015-06.021, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23755.
Item number: 2015-06.039
Date: 13 May 2017 to 10 Sep 2017
Relations to this item:2015-06.038 referenced by this Item
Description:Recordings of phonological and grammatical and semantic elicitation, including video recordings of semantic elicitation on deixis. Recordings of texts, including video.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 3, 2015-06.039, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25294.
Item number: 2015-06.047
Date: 19 May 2018 to 10 Aug 2018
Relations to this item:2015-06.071 references this Item
Description:Recordings of phonological, grammatical, and semantic elicitation, including video recordings of semantic elicitation on deixis. Recordings of naming pretest for psycholinguistic experiment.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 4, 2015-06.047, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25417.
Description:Recordings of a conversation between two half-brothers in the home of one of them. Conversation was staged by the researcher, who brought one brother (ABS, seated left in recording) to visit the other (WWG).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings of a staged conversation between adults, 2018-19.004, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25465.
Item number: 2018-19.003
Date: 13 Jun 2018
Relations to this item:2018-19.020 references this Item
Description:Recordings of a conversation between two half-brothers about one brother's recent trip to a nearby area in Brazil, in the home of one of them (NWG). Conversation was staged by the researcher, who brought one brother (ABS, seated left in recording) to visit the other (NWG).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings of a staged conversation between adults, 2018-19.003, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25464.
Item number: 2018-19.029
Date: 07 Jul 2017
Relations to this item:2018-19.019 references this Item
Description:Recordings of a game of marbles and a built space description interview between two older, distantly related speakers. The game and interview were staged by the researcher, who brought one speaker (ABS) to the home of the other (MMG).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings of staged conversation and task-oriented talk between adults, 2018-19.029, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25733.
Description:Transcriptions made in 2017, in TextGrids and EAF, of text recordings made in 2017 and in previous years. This bundle does *not* include transcripts of conversations; see the 'Ticuna conversations' collection for those transcripts.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Text transcription Year 3, 2015-06.065, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25435.
Item number: 2015-06.066
Date: 19 May 2018 to 10 Aug 2018
Relations to this item:2015-06.049 referenced by this Item; 2015-06.069 referenced by this Item; 2015-06.058 referenced by this Item
Description:Transcriptions made in 2018, in EAF, of recordings made in 2018 and in previous years. This bundle does *not* include transcripts of conversations, naturalistic child data, or experimental tasks; see the 'Ticuna conversations' and 'Ticuna experiments' collection for those transcripts.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Text transcription Year 4, 2015-06.066, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25436.
Description:Transcriptions made in 2017 of conversations and other naturally occurring discourses. These transcripts were checked twice in full with a consultant. The title of every file is the same as the title of its corresponding WAV file (or MP4 file if there is no WAV). See the orthography file bundle for the orthography used in the transcriptions. Consultants marked as 'transcribers' helped the researcher to transcribe; they did not actually write transcriptions themselves.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Transcriptions 2017, 2018-19.019, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25709.
Description:Transcriptions made in 2018 of conversations and other naturally occurring discourses involving primarily adults. Recordings were made in 2017 and 2018. These transcripts were checked twice in full with a consultant. The title of every file is the same as the title of its corresponding WAV or MP4 file (file name includes "video" -> mp4 has same name, does not include "video" -> WAV has same name). See the orthography file bundle for the orthography used in the transcriptions.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Transcriptions 2018, 2018-19.020, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25710.
Item number: 2018-19.085
Date: Jul 2019
Relations to this item:2018-19.039 referenced by this Item; 2018-19.124 references this Item
Description:ELAN transcription of task-oriented child-caregiver interaction (researcher present), time-aligned with audio and video recordings. ELAN transcription of undirected child-caregiver interaction (researcher not present), time-aligned with audio and video recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Transcriptions of child language and child-caregiver interaction with Child 1, 2018-19.085, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BV7DX0.
Description:ELAN transcription of task-oriented child-caregiver interaction (researcher present), time-aligned with audio and video recordings. ELAN transcription of undirected child-caregiver interaction (researcher not present), time-aligned with audio and video recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Transcriptions of child language and child-caregiver interaction with Child 3, 2018-19.087, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2736P60.
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