Historical information:This collection consists of materials produced by students of the graduate-level field methods course in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley between September 2008 and May 2009, with some additional materials from one student extending through September 2009. The course was co-taught by professors Alice Gaby and Lev Michael, and the language consultant was Moa Imchen. All other listed contributors were students in the course.
Scope and content:Sound recordings of elicitation and texts, transcriptions, student assignments. The collection is organized into five series: Series I, sound recordings of in-class and small-group elicitation sessions, arranged chronologically (many with transcriptions in .trs files openable in Transcriber); Series II, clipped sound recordings of lexical items (with relations to the original recordings from which they were extracted); Series III, interlinear texts (an assignment for each student); and Series IV, remaining student assignments. Most file bundles containing sound recordings contain content descriptions based on metadata spreadsheets maintained by each student in the course.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Moa Imchen, Alex Bratkievich, Daniel Bruhn, Ramón Escamilla, Lindsey Newbold, Hannah Pritchett, Marilola Pérez, Russell Rhodes, and Alice Gaby. Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao, 2019-08, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PR7T8H.
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.
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Preferred citation: -i on Subjects, 2019-08.004.011, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22N50JS.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20081100_rhodes_subject-i.pdf (52782 bytes)
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Preferred citation: A Description of Negation in Chungli Ao, 2019-08.004.014, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PC30PN.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20081117_pritchett_negation.pdf (120903 bytes)
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Preferred citation: A Sketch of the Demonstrative System of Chungli Ao, 2019-08.004.021, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2S46Q75.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20090111_perez_demonstratives.pdf (103845 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Constituent Questions in Chungli Ao, 2019-08.004.018, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X25D8Q4R.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20081214_bruhn_constituent-questions.pdf (1257491 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Coordination, 2019-08.004.017, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2930RGR.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20081200_rhodes_coordination.pdf (48661 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Interlinear text: A story from my childhood village life, 2019-08.003.001, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X24J0CCS.
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Preferred citation: Interlinear text: Exhortative sermon, 2019-08.003.003, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2W0947T.
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Preferred citation: Interlinear text: The nail accident, 2019-08.003.004, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RB72WZ.
Item number: 2019-08.003.002
Date: 17 Mar 2009
Relations to this item:2019-08.001.041 referenced by this Item
Description:Segmentation, glossing, free translation. File 001 is interlinearization; file 002 is accompanying notes and free translation. See file Ao_MI_04Feb09_03_DB in 2019-08.001.041 for original audio.
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Preferred citation: Interlinear text: The tragic tale of Salunaru and RangtsIng, 2019-08.003.002, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X20R9MPZ.
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Preferred citation: Interlinear text: The warrior's practice of cutting heads, 2019-08.003.005, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MK6B63.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: body parts; possessives; basic verb paradigms with see, throw, laugh, etc; words for contrasts; vowel-initial words; numbers; questions
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Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, May 2010, 2017-04.003, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24339.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.003_file_metadata.txt (729 bytes) karuk-2010-05-01-arg-edited-1.wav (267687044 bytes) karuk-2010-05-01-arg-edited-2.wav (677667888 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Lexical Tone in Chungli Ao, 2019-08.004.023, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HM56Q6.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20090513_rhodes_lexical-tone.pdf (623092 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Marki Züluba Osangtajung/A Concordance of the Gospel of Mark in Chungli Ao, 2019-08.004.024, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2CV4G1B.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20090500_gospel-mark_concordance.pdf (564794 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Negation in Chungli Ao: Description and Analysis, 2019-08.004.022, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NC5ZG0.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20090513_pritchett_negation.pdf (109895 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Possession in Chungli Ao, 2019-08.004.012, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2XW4H3Z.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20081117_bruhn_possession.pdf (107866 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Tense/Aspect/Mood Morphology in Ao, 2019-08.004.010, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26971W7.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20081100_bratkievich_tense-aspect-mood.pdf (231657 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Three (Interwoven) Case Studies in Ao Verbal Morphology, 2019-08.004.015, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2JM27XG.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20081118_escamilla_verbal-morphology.pdf (125710 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Topicalization and Contrastive Focus in Ao, 2019-08.004.020, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2WW7FZ5.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20090110_newbold_topicalization-contrastive-focus.pdf (116007 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Topics in Coreference and Anaphora at the Level of the Sentence/Adjacency Pair in Chungli Ao, 2019-08.004.019, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X21N7ZFG.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20090109_escamilla_coreference-anaphora.pdf (126080 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Two-verb Constructions in Ao: Serial Verbs, Light Verbs, Auxiliaries, or Embedded Clauses?, 2019-08.004.016, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2DV1H5Q.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20081200_bratkievich_two-verb-constructions.pdf (234647 bytes)
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Preferred citation: Valence-increasing Constructions in Ao, 2019-08.004.013, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2T43RD0.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): ling240_ao_20081117_newbold_causatives.pdf (87436 bytes)
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Preferred citation: [Brief notes on vowels based on clipped recordings], 2019-08.002.011, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X289144Z.
Description:DB: (00:00) story of [salula] and [rangtsIngsang]; (05:20) English translation of story; (10:27) miscellaneous morphology questions. Others: elicited words from Coupe's (2007) English-Mongsen word list; sentences from Chapter 5 of Mongsen grammar (topic marker), accidental vs. deliberate actions; more sentences from Mongsen grammar, focus, [-pu]; uses of [masɪ] as negator of verbal sentence, negates presupposition ("He didn't come yesterday.", more of "He sent the tree down spinningly."); more of clean/not clean (figuring out nominal/verbal negation uses); more sentences with [-Vɹ] (with and without [kVlVn]) and with [-a] converbs, checking whether it's possible to have different subjects, and the position of the overt subject(s); working with the co-occurence of imperfective/progressive /-a/ verbal suffix with /a-/ prefix on helping verb to express habitual/constant state, e.g., [la pela-a a-liɹ] "She's {habitually} happy."; curses and similar imperative forms, e.g., [sɪk-a li-aŋ]! "May you {constantly} be cold!"; more imperatives with [tuktsɪ] 'abandon', [ɹaɹa-tep] 'argue with one another', [asaŋ] 'bark', [meɹaŋ] 'try', etc.; demonstratives and [-saŋ], [-pa], and [-i].
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Preferred citation: [Class elicitation session with songs and text], 2019-08.001.041, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D50K8M.
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Preferred citation: [Class elicitation session with texts], 2019-08.001.039, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NP22QB.
Description:DB: (0:00) animistic terms; (7:00) class discussion of vowels; (10:14) Christian terms; (15:05) diversion into vowels; (18:23) Christian terms. Others: measurements; more injuries/illnesses; describing types of pain; "X is burning"; the suffix [-ugu]; [la] 'her' vs [la7] 'bat'; [tʃang] 'uncooked rice' vs [tʃʰang] 'buffalo' vs [tʃaːng] 'call!'; minimal pair token with intervocalic /p/ vs /pʰ/; near-minimal pair with /tʃ/ vs /tʃʰ/ (in the onset position); a handful of body part terms (wrinkle, itch, scratch); elicitation of verbs of motion and transportation ('move', 'come out' vs. 'went out', 'turn', 'wrap', 'push') - interesting finding: different verbs for 'enter' and 'exit' depending whether speaker is in a landmark location or not; measurements; spacial relations questionnaire: 'big', 'small', etc.; Bowerman & Pederson x to 10.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Class elicitation session], 2019-08.001.010, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Chungli Ao", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2DB8033.
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