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 for going to the doctor; appositional use of Karuk pronoun 'uum'; reduplication with inflection.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, April 2016, 2017-04.041, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24383.
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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: use of Karuk 1st-person prefixes 'ni-' and 'na-' in expression of personal states; monomorphemic words in isolation and in sentences for accent contrasts; verbs of position; possessives; how to say 'where is X?'; non-geminating consonants; locatives; relative clauses.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, December 2011, 2017-04.011, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24349.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: introductions; relations; place names; word order of adverbial complement and focus; parts of a house and appliances; miscellaneous vocabulary; reworking traditional Skunk Story. narration of "The Three Bears" using Carolyn "Lyn" Risling's "The Three Bears" coloring book (Published 1984 by ITEP, reprinted 2013).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, December 2015, 2017-04.037, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24379.
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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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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, February 2017, 2017-04.049, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24392.
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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: 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: translation into Karuk of "We are praying for healing"; sentences with Karuk verb 'chupĂșnuthi' (to talk about); miscellaneous phrases.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, July 2016, 2017-04.044, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24386.
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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.
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 on topics including: contrastive focus and word order; miscellaneous vocabulary; position of focus-marked pronoun relative to verb; description of Story Builder cards. Also includes several prayers.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, November 2015, 2017-04.036, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24378.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: making coffee; miscellaneous phrases; vocabulary for Slap Jack game; names of animals; body parts and people; numbers; language for bathroom and hand-washing; colors; word order; vocabulary for getting sick.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, November 2016, 2017-04.047, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24389.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: acorn vocabulary; acorn collection and preparation (in English); word order; weather, time of day terms; picture books: California baskets - uses of materials etc., regalia and dances, Karuk basket weaving (reprint of old book), Karuk area and people - fishing, etc; locatives, directionals; bird names (from picture book), animal vocabulary, use of Karuk work "yaxa"; verbs of perception; use of Karuk morpheme "pa-"; use of Karuk words "yanava" and "suva"; colors; directional adverbs.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, October 2010, 2017-04.006, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24342.
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Description:Elicitation on topics including: negative sentences; conditionals; verbs of manipulation; words and phrases from "Now You're Speaking Karuk"; words and phrases for a kids game. Also includes relistening of earlier recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, October 2012, 2017-04.016, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24355.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, October 2015, 2017-04.035.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24376.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, October 2015: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.035.002, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24377.
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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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