Historical information:Nukuoro is an endangered Polynesian language spoken on Nukuoro Atoll, a low-lying island chain approximately 480 kilometers southwest of the state capital of Pohnpei, Micronesia. There are an estimated 1,200 speakers of Nukuoro worldwide, primarily on Nukuoro Atoll, Pohnpei, Guam, and in the United States. While language use is fairly robust on Nukuoro Atoll, diaspora communities are facing increased influence from regionally dominant languages like Pohnpeian and English; many Nukuoro community members under 30 feel more comfortable speaking other languages or do not identify as Nukuoro speakers at all. As rising sea levels threaten the sustainability of life on the atoll, diaspora communities will continue to grow, putting greater pressure of majority languages on the Nukuoro-speaking community.
Scope and content:Materials from 2015 and 2016 were developed by Emily Drummond and Lydia Ding as part of their undergraduate coursework. Materials from 2019 forward were developed by Emily Drummond during her time as a graduate student in linguistics at UC Berkeley. Materials include audio recordings of elicitation sessions, oral narratives, and conversational texts; field notes; transcriptions; photos and videos documenting cultural and other practices; and ancillary documents.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Mina Lekka, Johnny (Soni) Rudolph, Ruth (Analidele) Rudolph, Lydia Ding, and Emily Drummond. Nukuoro Field Materials, 2019-24, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2M32T4N.
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Item number: 2019-24.042
Date: 20 Jun 2016
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Suggested citation: Beginning of interview about personal history, 2019-24.042, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29G5K5B.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation of geminates in sentence frames, 2019-24.067, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22V2DGS.
Item number: 2019-24.082
Date: 07 Jun 2019
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on biclausal structures using "decide", as well as sensory verbs. Corresponds to page 61-73 in Notebook 2.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on "decide" and sensory verbs, 2019-24.082, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X24M92WW.
Item number: 2019-24.081
Date: 05 Jun 2019
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on determiners and quantifiers translated as "enough" and "few/little". Corresponds to page 60 in Notebook 2.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on "enough" and "few/little", 2019-24.081, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28C9TM7.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on VP-ellipsis and object drop, 2019-24.134, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2K072SM.
Item number: 2019-24.005
Date: 09 Jun 2015
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on basic vocabulary, parts of a traditional house, and basic sentence structure. Corresponds to pages 22-24 in Notebook 1.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on basic vocabulary, 2019-24.005, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2348HQH.
Item number: 2019-24.077
Date: 04 Jun 2019
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on biclausal structures (continue, think, believe, say). Corresponds to pages 35-40 in Notebook 2.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on biclausal structures, 2019-24.077, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2SB443N.
Item number: 2019-24.074
Date: 03 Jun 2019
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on biclausal structures (promise, help, hope, want, can, choose, let). Corresponds to pages 10-19 in Notebook 2.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Elicitation on biclausal structures, 2019-24.074, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X25M6424.
Item number: 2019-24.049
Date: 24 Jun 2016
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Description:One .wav audio file for an elicitation on lexical items, biclausal structures, ellipsis, and reflexives, as well as planning future work. Corresponds to pages 189-192 in Notebook 1.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on biclausal structures, ellipsis, and reflexives, 2019-24.049, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D798SQ.
Item number: 2019-24.073
Date: 31 May 2019
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on biclausal structures (try, want, can, know, let, choose), wh-questions and clefts, and word order variation. Corresponds to pages 1-9 in Notebook 2.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Elicitation on biclausal structures, wh-questions, and word order, 2019-24.073, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29C6VS2.
Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on the cultural jurisdiction of Nukuoro, photo identification, and plant species names. Corresponds to page 97-103 in Notebook 2.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on cultural terms and plants, 2019-24.086, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MP51NV.
Description:Elicitation on the different contexts for definite articles (uniqueness vs. familiarity), indefinite articles (epistemic contexts), and some comparatives and superlatives.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on definites, indefinites, comparatives, superlatives, 2019-24.141, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NS0SD8.
Description:One .wav audio file for an elicitation on determiners and transcription of a creation story and how to plant coconuts. Corresponds to pages 224-226 in Notebook 1.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on determiners and transcription of creation story and coconut-planting, 2019-24.059, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23T9FK5.
Item number: 2019-24.110
Date: 27 Jun 2019
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on determiners, copular clauses, negation, and scope judgements. Corresponds to pages 181-193 in Notebook 2.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on determiners, copulas, negation, and scope, 2019-24.110, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HQ3X8B.
Item number: 2019-24.006
Date: 11 Jun 2015
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Description:Two .wav audio files and two .rtf transcription files for an elicitation on ditransitives, tense and aspect, and polar questions. Corresponds to pages 42-47 in Notebook 1.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on ditransitives, tense-aspect, and polar questions, 2019-24.006, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2ZC8165.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on embedded clauses and raising, 2019-24.139, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2X928TV.
Description:Elicitation testing the distribution of ergative and the personal marker, as well as editing a Nukuoro phrasebook, including sections on food, health problems, parts of the body, numbers, quantities, positions, and counting days. Corresponds to page 97 in Notebook 3.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on ergative distribution; Phrasebook editing: "food" through "counting days", 2019-24.149, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MS3R8W.
Item number: 2019-24.117
Date: 01 Jul 2019
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation reviewing ergative marking in purpose clauses, embedded subjects, negation in embedded clauses, and some work on "ina". Corresponds to pages 217-223 in Notebook 2.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Elicitation on ergative marking and embedded negation, 2019-24.117, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MG7MV8.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on ergative marking, biased questions, some/all implicature, 2019-24.155, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2V986KJ.
Item number: 2019-24.107
Date: 27 Jun 2019
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on extraction from biclausal structures (can, let, choose, want) to test the availability of "go" and "ina". Corresponds to pages 173-178 in Notebook 2.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on extraction from biclausal structures, 2019-24.107, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2X065F3.
Item number: 2019-24.124
Date: 05 Jul 2019
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Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation on focus and topic constructions and the availability of "go". Corresponds to pages 25-32 in notebook 3.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on focus and topic, 2019-24.124, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2Q81BDQ.
Item number: 2019-24.122
Date: 04 Jul 2019
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Description:Two .wav audio files and two .rtf transcription files for elicitations on focus-marking, particularly "go". Corresponds to pages 8-24 in notebook 3.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on focus-marking, 2019-24.122, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2ZS2TV2.
Description:One .wav audio file and one .rtf transcription file for an elicitation transcribing Johnny Rudolph's frog story and investigating relative clauses and alienability. Corresponds to pages 111-119 in Notebook 1.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Elicitation on frog story transcription and relative clauses, 2019-24.016, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NZ860M.
Description:Elicitation on have-constructions (including questioning, relativizing, and embedding); manner, reason, and purpose clauses; and the editing of a Nukuoro phrasebook, including sections on going places, finding your way, and finding transportation. Corresponds to pages 88-89 in Notebook 3.
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on have-constructions and adverbial clauses; Phrasebook editing: "going places" through "finding transportation", 2019-24.143, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D798XH.
Item number: 2019-24.108
Date: 27 Jun 2019
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Suggested citation: Elicitation on idioms and beliefs, 2019-24.108, in "Nukuoro Field Materials", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2S75DQC.
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