Linguistic Fieldwork Working Group
The UCSD Linguistic Fieldwork Working Group aims to provide an informal forum to discuss:
* Data and working hypotheses of analyses in the beginning stages
* Emerging field research methodologies in language description and documentation
* Software, equipment and annotation tools for fieldwork-based projects
* Language field research projects in related disciplines taking place at UCSD.
When: every other Friday, 1pm-2pm
Where: Field lab (AP&M 2452)
Spring 2013 schedule
F 4/12: Sharon Rose - Tundra Nenets polyfunctionality
F 4/26: Lucien Carroll and Hope Morgan - ChronoViz and ELAN (new developments)
F 5/10: Lucien Carroll and Andrea Guerrero - Ixpantepec Nieves Tu’un Savi data day
F 5/24: John Haviland - elicitation tools for working with emerging or undocumented
sign languages
F 6/7: Laura McPherson (UCLA): Tone-tune association in Tommo So (Dogon) folk
songs
Previous meetings
Winter 2013
F 1/18: Farrell Ackerman - Tundra Nenets polyfunctionality
F 2/1: Valentina Torres (Familia Indígena Unida) - Tu’un Savi (Mixtec) language and
culture
F 2/15: Lucien Carroll - “Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec word prosody'”
F 3/1: No meeting - grad open house
F 3/15: Sharon Rose & Andrew Hsiu - research project stemming from Languages of
Africa class
Fall 2012
Tu 10/23: Ryan Lepic - Elicitation or Experimentation?: Gathering Sign Language and Gesture Data
Tu 10/30: Hope Morgan on recent fieldwork on Kenyan Sign Language (KSL)
Tu 11/6: Rodolfo Mata on fieldwork for Border Spanish Project
Tu 11/20: Gabriela Caballero on Rarámuri morphology (practice talk)
Tu 12/4: data day - Lucien Carroll on Ixpantepec Nieves Tu’un Savi
Spring 2012
Tu 4/10: Farrell Ackerman on Tundra Nenets syntax
Tu 5/22: Sara Goico (Anthropology) on transcription issues for work on sign languages and gesture
Tu 6/5: data day - Lucien Carroll on Nieves Mixtec phonology
Winter 2012
Th 2/9: tools and software for large language corpora - Russ Horton
Th 2/23: issues on practical orthographies
Th 3/8: data day - Hope Morgan on stimuli for field research; Sharon Rose on Moro syntax
Participants: Farrell Ackerman
Sara Goico
Andrea Guerrero
Ryan Lepic
Rodolfo Mata
Shane McClain
Alex Stiller-Shulman
Organizers: Gabriela Caballero and Sharon Rose
