Work on Indigenous Languages of Latin America The empirical basis of my work is research on languages of Latin America. My dissertation research is based on my fieldwork on Rarámuri (Taracahitan; Uto-Aztecan) in the community of Choguita, Chihuahua, which I began in 2003. Before that, I worked with a speaker of Ojachichi Rarámuri (between 2000 and 2002) for my undergraduate honors thesis. I have worked with speakers of Mayo (Taracahitan; Uto-Aztecan), Huastec Nahuatl (Aztecan; Uto-Aztecan), Yucatec Maya (Yucatecan; Mayan) and Popti’ (Kanjobalan; Mayan) for different projects. I have also worked with published sources of Guarijío (Taracahitan; Uto-Aztecan) and several Tepiman languages (Uto-Aztecan) for projects on synchronic and diachronic aspects of the prosodic morphology of these languages. My dissertation (completed in August 2008 at UC Berkeley) provides a detailed description and analysis of the phonology and morphology of Choguita Rarámuri, a previously undocumented Uto-Aztecan language (PDF (447 pages)) Choguita Rarámuri language documentation I am currently engaged in a documentation project funded by the National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages program (2012-2014); previously, this project was funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (hosted at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London) (2006-2010). In collaboration with community members, the project will produce a reference grammar of Choguita Rarámuri, and a corpus of annotated texts, audio and video. These documents are being archived at ELAR and are also deposited in the community, responding to the interests of native speakers to have an archive of audio and video recordings that will serve as a community heritage for future generations (details about the Choguita Rarámuri materials deposited at ELAR can be found here). This project builds on work started through the projects Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) documentation and description and A reference grammar of Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara). Last update: February 9, 2013 Home_files/Caballero_dissertation_2008.pdfhttp://www.hrelp.org/archive/http://elar.soas.ac.uk/drupal6/node/16361http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=94http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=151shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4
Assistant Professor UCSD Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics - 0108 University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 Phone: (858) 534-4892 Fax: (858) 534-4789 E-mail: gcaballero at ucsd dot edu http://www.ucsd.edu/http://ling.ucsd.edu/shapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1

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Research interests

Languages of the Americas (particularly Uto-Aztecan languages), phonology, morphology, language description and documentation, comparative/historical linguistics, typology.

Winter 2013:

Office hours: Wednesdays 12:30-2pm





 

UCSD Linguistics Field Research Lab

Linguistic Fieldwork Working Group

SaDPhIG: San Diego Phonology Interest Group

Linguistic Anthropology Lab


Upcoming/recent talks and presentations:


  1. *Assessing functionality of Multiple Exponence in Choguita Rarámuri

  UCLA Department of Linguistics colloquium - December 7, 2012

* Redundant marking helps morpheme recognition in noise: Experimental evidence from

    Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) (with Volya Kapatsinski). The Mental Lexicon, Université de

   Montréal and McGill University, October 24-26, 2012.

  1. *Perceptual functionality of multiple exponence: experimental evidence from Choguita

   Rarámuri (with Volya Kapatsinski). American International Morphology Meeting, University of

   Massachusetts, Amherst, September 22, 2012.