Historical information: These materials were produced by students of the field methods course in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley between September 2005 and May 2006. The course was taught by Professor Andrew Garrett and the language consultants were Grace Dick, Leona Dick, Meg McDonald, Morris Jack, Joyce Glazier, Elaine Lundy, Edith McCann, and Madeline Stevens. All other listed contributors were students in the course.
Scope and content: This collection consists of audio recordings that derive from fieldwork in Bridgeport and Colevile, CA. The contents of the recordings include lexical elicitation, grammatical elicitation, and some texts.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Grace Dick, Leona Cluette Dick, Joyce Glazier, Morris Jack, Elaine Lundy, Edith McCann, Edna Mega Dick McDonald, Meg McDonald, Madeline Stevens, Molly Babel, Andrew Garrett, Erin Haynes, Michael Houser, Reiko Kataoka, Fanny Liu, Nicole Marcus, Ruth Rouvier, Angela Strom-Weber, and Maziar Toosarvandani. Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute, 2018-02, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2251GBJ.
Historical information: This collection is the product of a decade-long collaboration between speakers of Northern Paiute and Molly Babel, Michael Houser, and Maziar Toosarvandani. Their work together started during a graduate field methods class in 2005-2006 at the University of California, Berkeley. After 2010, Toosarvandani continued the collaboration alone. This work was supported by grants to Babel, Houser, and Toosarvandani from the Foundation for Endangered Languages and Sven and Astrid Liljeblad Endowment Fund (2008), as well as to Toosarvandani from the Jacobs Research Fund (2011, 2013, 2015), Phillips Fund (2011, 2013), Sven and Astrid Liljeblad Endowment (2011), and the Hellman Foundation (2015).
Scope and content: This collection comprises audio recordings of speakers of Northern Paiute from Mono Lake, Bridgeport, and Coleville in California, and from Sweetwater and Schurz in Nevada. Almost all of the recordings were made in Bridgeport or Coleville; a few audio recordings were made in Schurz with a speaker of the Walker River variety. The contents of the recordings include word elicitation, sentence elicitation, and texts. Words were elicited across numerous semantic domains, primarily based on speakers' interests. Sentence elicitation was targeted toward several areas of the grammar, including nominalization, clausal embedding, clause chaining, and aspect. Texts include both spontaneously produced traditional stories, personal histories, and procedural texts, as well as narratives prompted with picture books or English translations of traditional narratives.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Grace Dick, Leona Cluette Dick, Morris Jack, Inez Jim, Elaine Lundy, Edith McCann, Harold Miller, Jimmy Nez, Madeline Stevens, Molly Babel, Michael Houser, and Maziar Toosarvandani. Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection, 2017-05, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X27P8WNX.
Associated materials: The documentary materials produced in the field methods class from which this project derives are part of collection 2018-02, "Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute" (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2251GBJ).
Description: Two WAV files. BP13-4 begins with a discussion of different Paiute dances and related activities, with lexical elicitation mixed in. BP13-5 contains elicitation of sentences.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Dance discussion, lexical and sentence elicitation], 2017-05.006, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2G73BZ4.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP13-4.wav (420884480 bytes) BP13-5.wav (493287424 bytes)
Description: Four WAV files. BP24-1 contains a recording about the powwow on the night of September 20th 2008 in Northern Paiute. BP24-2, BP24-3, and BP24-4 contain elicitation of sentences.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Discussion about previous night's powwow, sentence elicitation], 2017-05.020, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NS0S54.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP24-1.wav (324866348 bytes) BP24-2.wav (171926828 bytes) BP24-3.wav (297874988 bytes) BP24-4.wav (290439980 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Discussion of 1930s language materials], 2017-05.013, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2K072JG.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP17-3.wav (510943232 bytes) BP17-4.wav (481759232 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Discussion of 1930s language materials], 2017-05.012, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PR7T72.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP17-1.wav (510943232 bytes) BP17-2.wav (509986816 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Elicitation session], 2018-02.006, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25079.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP06-1.wav (327254016 bytes) BP06-2.wav (311132160 bytes) BP06-3.wav (322881536 bytes) BP06-4.wav (249274368 bytes)
Description: This recording contains background information of the consultants, as well as discussions on the Northern Paiute language, the sociolinguistic context, and elicitation of vocabulary and sentences.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Elicitation session], 2018-02.009, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25082.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP09-1.wav (423016652 bytes) BP09-2.wav (416590988 bytes) BP09-3.wav (200517452 bytes)
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Preferred citation: [Elicitation session], 2018-02.004, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25077.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP04-1.wav (398851028 bytes) BP04-2.wav (215847788 bytes) BP04-3.wav (423016652 bytes) BP04-4.wav (281726132 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Elicitation words and sentences, discussion of womanhood], 2017-05.014, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2F769TR.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP18-1.wav (510943232 bytes) BP18-2.wav (381175808 bytes) BP18-3.wav (147484672 bytes)
Description: This recordings includes a discussion of previous studies on historical linguistics and dialectology involving Northern Paiute, and a review of several older forms with language consultant, Grace Dick.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Historical and dialectology session], 2018-02.008, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25081.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP08-1.wav (504795136 bytes)
Description: Three WAV files. BP16-4 contains sentence elicitation and some word elicitation at the end (e.g., kinship terms). BP16-5 contains word and sentence elicitation. BP16-6 contains sentence elicitation.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Lexical and sentence elicitation], 2017-05.011, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TD9VMZ.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP16-4.wav (666568704 bytes) BP16-5.wav (439033856 bytes) BP16-6.wav (248825856 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Lexical elication], 2018-02.001, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25083.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP01-1.wav (272769024 bytes) BP01-2.wav (273400104 bytes) BP01-3.wav (613093214 bytes)
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Preferred citation: [Lexical elicitation for phonetic description], 2017-05.015, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29G5K20.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP19-1.wav (130533376 bytes) BP19-2.wav (112318464 bytes) BP19-3.wav (180326400 bytes) BP19-4.wav (330301440 bytes)
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Preferred citation: [Lexical elicitation including numbers, time, and kinship terms], 2017-05.002, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2057D54.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP11-4.wav (477573102 bytes) BP11-5.wav (510326784 bytes) BP11-6.wav (93605888 bytes)
Description: Three WAV files. BP26-1 contains lexical elicitation. BP26-2 contains a review of the "A Boy, A Dog, and A Frog" story. BP26-3 is a recording of a childhood memory of Madeline Stevens in Northern Paiute.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Lexical elicitation, review of frog story, story of childhood memories], 2017-05.022, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D798PC.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP26-1.wav (311199020 bytes) BP26-2.wav (322820396 bytes) BP26-3.wav (159077420 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Lexical elicitation], 2017-05.023, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28G8HZN.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP27-1.wav (590280236 bytes)
Description: Two WAV files. BP15-1 begins with a palatography session, then continues with elicitation of words and sentences. BP15-2 contains elicitation of words, where each word is repeated multiple times.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Palatography, lexical and sentence elicitation], 2017-05.008, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26Q1VGN.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP15-1.wav (640729088 bytes) BP15-2.wav (455380992 bytes)
Description: Two WAV files. BP14-1 begins with a palatography session, then moves into reviewing previous recorded words and sentences. BP14-2 contains elicitation of sentences.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Palatography, lexical review, sentence elicitation], 2017-05.007, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BG2M7T.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP14-1.wav (672860160 bytes) BP14-2.wav (500312064 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Story about elderly couple, elicitation], 2017-05.009, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22Z13R9.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP16-1.wav (598097920 bytes) BP16-2.wav (421060608 bytes)
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Preferred citation: [Translation of previously recorded story into English], 2017-05.001, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23X84W4.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP11-1.wav (457428992 bytes) BP11-2.wav (440745984 bytes) BP11-3.wav (510179328 bytes)
Description: Two WAV files. BP27-2 describes videos of University of California, Berkeley students performing various activities. BP27-3 is about the "A Boy, A Dog, and A Frog" story.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Video description, review of frog story], 2017-05.024, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X24Q7S8S.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): BP27-2.wav (725566508 bytes) BP27-3.wav (557344556 bytes)
We acknowledge with respect the Ohlone people on whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded land we work and whose historical relationships with that land continue to this day.