ERIC Number: EJ1290187
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 37
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ISSN: EISSN-1934-5275
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Ticuna (tca) Language Documentation: A Guide to Materials in the California Language Archive
Language Documentation & Conservation, v15 p153-189 2021
Ticuna (ISO: tca) is a language isolate spoken in the northwestern Amazon Basin (Brazil, Colombia, Peru). Ticuna has more speakers than almost all other Indigenous Amazonian languages and -- unlike most languages of the area -- is still learned by children. Yet academic linguists have given it relatively little research attention. Therefore, to raise the profile of this really important language, I offer a guide to three collections of Ticuna language materials held in the California Language Archive. These materials are extensive, including over 1,396 hours of recordings -- primarily of child language and everyday conversations between adults -- and 33 hours of transcriptions. To contextualize the materials, I provide background on the Ticuna language and people; the research projects which produced the materials; the participants who appear in them; and the ethical and permissions issues involved in collecting them. I then discuss the nature and scope of the materials, showing how the content of each collection motivated collection-specific choices about recording, transcription, organization in the archive, and metadata. Last, I outline how other researchers could draw on the collections for comparative analysis.
Descriptors: Language Research, American Indian Languages, Archives, Ethics, American Indians, Research Projects, Documentation, Metadata, Comparative Analysis, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries, Language Variation, Language Classification, Computational Linguistics, Audio Equipment, Video Technology, Informed Consent, Child Language, Adults
National Foreign Language Resources Center at University of Hawaii. Department of Linguistics, UHM Moore Hall 569, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. Fax: 808-956-9166; e-mail: ldc@hawaii.edu; Web site: https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Identifiers - Location: Brazil; Colombia; Peru; California
Grant or Contract Numbers: BCS1741571; SMA1911762