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: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.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: . Materials on the History of Berkeley Linguistics, 2019-38, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2FT8J9J.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; ethnographic data; traditional narratives; stories; conversation (in English)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Aileen Figueroa, Jimmie James, Wally Nova, Archie Thompson, Georgiana Trull, Jesse Van Pelt, Juliette Blevins, Lisa Conathan, Andrew Garrett, and Esther Wood. The Juliette Blevins collection of Yurok sound recordings, LA 255, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10220.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Adverbs; Intensitves; Individuated and collective predicates; Skunk; Prepositions; Directional predicates; Stem structure; Word order, LA 255.033, in "The Juliette Blevins collection of Yurok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22133.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 004_2.wav (704445440 bytes)
Availability: Restricted. (Access only by depositor permission. Email scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to inquire.)
Description:This item includes published research papers as well as handouts and posters related to the Karuk project by researchers associated with the project. Conferences represented include the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation and annual meetings of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Conference handouts, posters, and papers, 2017-04.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24276.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): Garrett-Mikkelsen-ICLDC-slides-2015.pdf (15076795 bytes) Garrett_Maier_Mikkelsen_Sandy-SSILA-slides-2015.pdf (5028980 bytes)
Availability: Restricted. (Access only by depositor permission. Email scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to inquire.)
Description:This contains documents pertaining to a grant application to the National Science Foundation, which was funded as award number 1065620, "Karuk [kyh] and Yurok [yur] syntax and text documentation", principal investigators Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen; and other grant applications.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Grant applications, 2017-04.002, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24280.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): Garrett_Mikkelsen-National_Science_Foundation_2010.pdf (242603 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Impersonal and unaccusative verbs; Plural and distributive subject & object; Prepositions; Locatives , LA 255.032, in "The Juliette Blevins collection of Yurok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22132.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 004_1.wav (703319040 bytes)
Availability: Restricted. (Access only by depositor permission. Email scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to inquire.)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: verbs with person as object; clothing vocabulary; verbs meaning 'to put'; motion verbs; spatial relations (under, on top of, etc.).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, August 2011, 2017-04.009, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24347.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.009_file_metadata.txt (993 bytes) karuk-2011-08-16-vs-1a.wav (92292150 bytes) karuk-2011-08-16-vs-1b.wav (82101310 bytes) karuk-2011-08-16-vs-2.wav (154351916 bytes) karuk-2011-08-16-vs-3.wav (276376364 bytes)
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.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.045_file_metadata.txt (557 bytes) karuk-2016-08-20-sd.wav (1584227470 bytes) karuk-2016-08-21-sd-2.wav (880827790 bytes)
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.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.052_file_metadata.txt (301 bytes) karuk-2016-08-21-sd-1.wav (657739918 bytes)
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.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.011_file_metadata.txt (2212 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-1.WAV (25408556 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-2.WAV (67104044 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-3.WAV (239307308 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-4.WAV (166180652 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-5.WAV (302381612 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-6.WAV (148347692 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-7.WAV (278210348 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-8.WAV (255354668 bytes)
Description:Elicitation of topics including: borrowings from English; description of Story Builder cards; description of landscape scenes from a calendar; instrumental constructions; instrument nouns; various vocabulary; narration of "The Three Bears" using Carolyn "Lyn" Risling's "The Three Bears" coloring book (Published 1984 by ITEP, reprinted 2013). Also includes listening and translating of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, December 2013, 2017-04.025, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24366.
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.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.049_file_metadata.txt (795 bytes) karuk-2017-02-11-sd.wav (1727623054 bytes) karuk-2017-02-12-sd-1.wav (841661838 bytes) karuk-2017-02-12-sd-2.wav (1001898126 bytes)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: questions, description of Topological Relations Picture Series, attributive modification. Also includes two conversations in Karuk/English and a personal anecdote in Karuk.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2011, 2017-04.007.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24343.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.007.001_file_metadata.txt (1112 bytes) karuk-2011-01-29-vs-2.wav (235847262 bytes) karuk-2011-01-30-vs-1.WAV (23205932 bytes) karuk-2011-01-30-vs-2.WAV (44487980 bytes) karuk-2011-01-30-vs-3.WAV (46156076 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2011: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.007.002, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24344.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.007.002_file_metadata.txt (236 bytes) karuk-2011-01-29-vs-1.wav (332398680 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2012, 2017-04.012.002, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24351.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.012.002_file_metadata.txt (214 bytes) karuk-2012-01-10-aglm-sd-vs-1.wav (479439788 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, January 2012, 2017-04.012.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24350.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.012.001_file_metadata.txt (278 bytes) karuk-2012-01-09-aglm-mbs-1.WAV (308320744 bytes)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: animal vocabulary; questions; locatives; adverbs; u-initial words; food vocabulary; past tenses; body parts, possessives; colors; 'with'; hot and cold; language; different languages.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, July 2010, 2017-04.004, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24340.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.004_file_metadata.txt (2026 bytes) karuk-2010-07-23-ag-vs-1.WAV (179550764 bytes) karuk-2010-07-23-ag-vs-2.WAV (16187948 bytes) karuk-2010-07-23-ag-vs-3.WAV (155722796 bytes) karuk-2010-07-23-ag-vs-4.wav (269746220 bytes) karuk-2010-07-24-ag-sd-1.WAV (225968172 bytes) karuk-2010-07-24-ag-sd-2a.wav (55384024 bytes) karuk-2010-07-24-ag-sd-2b.wav (3777526 bytes) karuk-2010-07-24-ag-sd-2c.wav (11776056 bytes)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: NP coordination w. 'xákaan'; verbalizer -hi and agreement; Future '-avish' with various particles. Also includes relistening/translation of earlier recorded texts.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, July 2012, 2017-04.015, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24354.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.015_file_metadata.txt (925 bytes) karuk-2012-07-25-vs-1.wav (436548268 bytes) karuk-2012-07-25-vs-2.wav (391957036 bytes) karuk-2012-07-25-vs-3.wav (180584492 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, June 2011: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.008.002, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24346.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.008.002_file_metadata.txt (435 bytes) karuk-2011-06-02-vs-1.wav (371404844 bytes) karuk-2011-06-02-vs-2.wav (410780204 bytes)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: Karuk verb 'musahi' (to look like); verbs with complement clauses; compounds; unstable accent words; use of Karuk suffixes '-ar' and '-kurih'; use of Karuk word 'vaa'; secondary predicates; description of line drawings (created by Alfred Hayes as elicitation prompts); animal vocabulary; verbs with various person prefixes and '-eesh' for accent; semantics/truth conditions of '-ar'; Frog Story; various vocabulary. Also includes a wealth of anecdotes and narratives told by Charlie Thom Sr, as well as relistening and translation of a Chester Pepper recording.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, June 2013 trip 2, 2017-04.021.001, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24361.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, June 2013 trip 2: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.021.002, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24362.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.021.002_file_metadata.txt (930 bytes) karuk-2013-06-17-ct-vs-2.wav (645104590 bytes) karuk-2013-06-18-vs-1.wav (632342990 bytes)
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.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.043_file_metadata.txt (1767 bytes) karuk-2016-06-4-sd-1.wav (551563918 bytes) karuk-2016-06-4-sd-2.wav (890597774 bytes) karuk-2016-06-4-sd-3.wav (275019406 bytes) karuk-2016-06-5-sd-1.wav (660910990 bytes) karuk-2016-06-5-sd-2.wav (1059168142 bytes) karuk-2016-06-5-sd-3.wav (538400398 bytes)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: posture verbs; complement clauses; ordering of negative 'pu-' and perfective 'ta'; compounds (as environments for labialization). Also includes reading of traditional texts by Arch Super.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, March 2013, 2017-04.018, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24357.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.018_file_metadata.txt (1405 bytes) karuk-2013-03-29-vs-1.wav (305665068 bytes) karuk-2013-03-29-vs-2.wav (244246316 bytes) karuk-2013-03-29-vs-3.wav (5647148 bytes) karuk-2013-03-29-vs-4.wav (258439724 bytes) karuk-2013-03-29-vs-5.wav (220082732 bytes) STE-06-archsuper-readingtexts-20130329.wav (540170668 bytes)
Description:"Elicitation on topics including: 'survival' phrases; weather and miscelleaneous vocabulary; use of pluractional/collective suffix '-naa'; word order; narration of ""The Three Bears"" using Carolyn ""Lyn"" Risling's ""The Three Bears"" coloring book (Published 1984 by ITEP, reprinted 2013). Also includings listening and translating of legacy recordings. "
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, March 2014, 2017-04.028, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24369.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.028_file_metadata.txt (1820 bytes) karuk-2014-03-24-vs-1.wav (343173036 bytes) karuk-2014-03-24-vs-2.wav (283872268 bytes) karuk-2014-03-25-la-vs.wav (557778788 bytes) karuk-2014-03-25-vs.wav (143294462 bytes) karuk-2014-03-26-vs-1.wav (403258028 bytes) karuk-2014-03-26-vs-2.wav (212623532 bytes) karuk-2014-03-26-vs-3.wav (252371244 bytes)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: information structure and cleft sentences; sluicing; compound accent; negative scope; food vocabulary; complements of verbs of knowing and thinking; pluractionality.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, March 2015, 2017-04.033, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24374.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.033_file_metadata.txt (2758 bytes) karuk-2015-03-25-vs-1.wav (85548204 bytes) karuk-2015-03-25-vs-2.wav (134116394 bytes) karuk-2015-03-25-vs-3.wav (160269228 bytes) karuk-2015-03-25-vs-4.wav (173037228 bytes) karuk-2015-03-25-vs-5.wav (59253804 bytes) karuk-2015-03-25-vs-6.wav (237453996 bytes) karuk-2015-03-25-vs-7.wav (124077100 bytes) karuk-2015-03-27-vs-1.wav (624276878 bytes) karuk-2015-03-27-vs-2.wav (358641294 bytes) karuk-2015-03-27-vs-3.wav (414687374 bytes) karuk-2015-03-27-vs-4.wav (410021774 bytes) karuk-2015-03-27-vs-5.wav (65921166 bytes)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: body parts; possessives; basic verb paradigms with see, throw, laugh, etc; words for contrasts; vowel-initial words; numbers; questions
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
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)
Description:Elicitation of topics including: 'îin' marking; nonverbal predication; body part vocabulary; numbers 1-10; everyday words and phrases; family vocabulary (relations), bird names and vocabulary. Also includes a conversation and relistening to an earlier recorded conversation.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Karuk field recordings, May 2012, 2017-04.014, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24353.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 2017-04.014_file_metadata.txt (1479 bytes) karuk-2012-05-23-vs-1.wav (620458540 bytes) karuk-2012-05-23-vs-2.wav (170596652 bytes) karuk-2012-05-23-vs-3.wav (422576654 bytes) karuk-2012-05-24-ms-1.wav (400148780 bytes) karuk-2012-05-24-ms-2.wav (78523692 bytes) karuk-2012-05-25-ms-1.wav (470992300 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.