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.
Description: Elicitation on topics including: vocabulary and sentences about washing hands; terms for squirrel and acorn board game; playing squirrel and acorn board game in Karuk.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, August 2016, 2017-04.045, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24387.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, August 2016: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.052, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24728.
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Description: Elicitation on topics including: description of Story Builder cards; instruction and alien picture description games; miscellaneous vocabulary. Also includes conversation.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, February 2016, 2017-04.039, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24381.
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Description: Elicitation on topics including: questions, description of Topological Relations Picture Series, attributive modification. Also includes two conversations in Karuk/English and a personal anecdote in Karuk.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2011, 2017-04.007.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24343.
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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: useful everyday language for learners (I'm hungry/sleepy, what time is it?, etc.); intimate language (fighting, loving, gossip); miscellaneous words and phrases. Also includes cultural discussion, discussion about dialects and variation, and a prayer.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2017, 2017-04.048.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24390.
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Description: Elicitation on topics including: Intimate language (fighting, loving, gossip); miscellaneous words and phrases. Also includes a prayer and song.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2017: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.048.002, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24391.
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Description: Elicitation on topics including: animal vocabulary; questions; locatives; adverbs; u-initial words; food vocabulary; past tenses; body parts, possessives; colors; 'with'; hot and cold; language; different languages.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, July 2010, 2017-04.004, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24340.
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Description: Elicitation on topics including: quiver-making vocabulary; making pancakes; vocabulary for math game; plant terms; description of images from Edward Gorey's "Donald has a Difficulty."
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, June 2016, 2017-04.043, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24385.
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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.
Description: Elicitation of topics including: 'îin' marking; nonverbal predication; body part vocabulary; numbers 1-10; everyday words and phrases; family vocabulary (relations), bird names and vocabulary. Also includes a conversation and relistening to an earlier recorded conversation.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, May 2012, 2017-04.014, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24353.
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Description: Elicitation on topics including: pregnancy and having children; snoring. Also includes the rehearing and translation of a recording of Chester Pepper LA78.1-009.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, May 2013, 2017-04.019.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24358.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, May 2013: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.019.002, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24359.
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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.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, October 2016, 2017-04.046, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24388.
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