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).
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.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Elicitation session], 2018-02.010, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25087.
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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.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
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.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Narratives and stories session], 2018-02.003, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/25085.
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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.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Story review: Trails over Yosemite, Groundhog and Cottontail, Indian Doctor], 2017-05.005, in "Northern Paiute Fieldwork Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2M043ND.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
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.
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