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
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.
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.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 2, 2015-06.022, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23756.
Item number: 2015-06.067
Date: 13 May 2017 to 10 Sep 2017
Relations to this item:2015-06.038 referenced by this Item
Description:Recordings of phonology and grammatical and semantic elicitation, including video recordings of semantic elicitation on deixis. Recordings of responses to storyboards.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings Year 3, 2015-06.067, in "Ticuna Elicitation and Texts", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25437.
Description:Approximately 6 adult members of "Iglesia Evangelica Comunidad Cristiana" talk while preparing food for sale in the back yard of ECG's home.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings of conversation and task-oriented talk among adults, 2018-19.034, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25738.
Description:Recordings of conversations between 2-7 adults with neighbor and nuclear family relationships; recordings of an informal built space interview between the researcher and 1 adult.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings of conversation between adults, 2018-19.025, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25729.
Description:Recordings of a church service preceding a mass wedding conducted in Cushillococha at Iglesia Evangelica "Comunidad Cristiana", a Ticuna-speaking evangelical church.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings of religious discourse by adults, 2018-19.022, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25715.
Item number: 2018-19.030
Date: 18 Jul 2017
Relations to this item:2018-19.019 references this Item
Description:5-7 members of the church "Iglesia Evangelica Comunidad Cristiana", who are also neighbors, talk while clearing grass from the area around the church building, then make plans for a church fundraising activity.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Recordings of task-oriented talk among adults, 2018-19.030, in "Ticuna conversations", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25734.
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