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Field Notes
by Martha Tsutsui Billins
A podcast about linguistic fieldwork, where seasoned fieldworkers share their stories from the field of language documentation & description.
Episodes
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Ep. 50: Field Notes Finale! Martha Tsutsui Billins & Laura Tsutsui on Amami Sociolinguistic Research
Happy International Mother Language Day! After 5 seasons, this is the final episode of Field Notes! Today's interview is between Laura Tsutsui (Field Notes producer) and Martha Tsutsui Billins (Field Notes host) on Amami sociolinguistic research, plus a look back at the last five years of...
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Ep. 49: Alexandra Philbin on Irish and Catalan Language Research & Revitalization
This episode is with Alexandra Philbin. Alexandra is originally from Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in València, Spain. She is carrying out doctoral research in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of València. Her research focuses on the experiences of urban...
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Ep. 48: Yulha Lhawa on Khroskyabs Language Documentation & Revitalization
This month's episode is with Yulha Lhawa from the University of Washington and the Endangered Languages Project. Yulha Lhawa, originally from Siyuewu Village in Sichuan, China, is a passionate advocate for her community's traditions and language. Growing up as a yak herder, Yulha developed an...
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Ep. 47: Karolina Grzech on Evidentiality and Epistemicity in Quechuan Languages
This month's episode is with Dr. Karolina Grzech at the University of Valencia. Karolina is a documentary and descriptive linguist, working mostly on Quechuan languages and natural language use. Her main topics of research are evidentiality (encoding how we know things) and epistemicity (encoding...
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Ep. 46: Kate Lindsey on Idi and Ende Language Documentation in Papua New Guinea
This month's episode is with Dr. Kate Lindsey. Kate is a professor of linguistics and co-director of the Structures of Under-Researched Languages lab at Boston University. Her research has both theoretical and documentary applications. Her theoretical work focuses on the analysis of...
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Ep. 45: Patrick Heinrich on Ryukyuan Language Documentation and Revitalization
Field Notes is back for its fifth and final season! Season five's inagural episode is with Patrick Heinrich from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Patrick received his Masters degree in Linguistics and Japanese Studies in 1998 from Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. He completed his PhD in...
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Ep. 44: Myfany Turpin on Australian Aboriginal Song-poetry and Documentation
This month's very special episode is with Myfany Turpin, an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. Myfany has been working on Australian Aboriginal songs and languages since 1996. Her research interests include the relationship between language and music, especially of lesser-known...
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Ep. 43: Language Documentation & Revitalization in Canada with Nicholas Welch
This month's episode is with Nicholas Welch from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Nicholas is the Canada Research Chair in Change, Adaptation and Revitalization of Aboriginal Languages and Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics...
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Ep. 42: Michelle Kamigaki-Baron on Pidgin & Secwepemctsín Language Research
This month's very special episode is with Michelle Kamigaki-Baron. Michelle is a PhD student in the department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. She was born and raised in Hawai’i into a family of coffee plantation laborers from Honaunau, Hawai’i. Her research primarily…
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Ep. 41: Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo on Zapotec Language Documentation & Revitalization
This month’s episode is with Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo from the University of Colorado Boulder. Ambrocio earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 2021. He earned his MA in 2014 at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico. He is a...
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Ep. 40: Jessica Coon on Mayan Language Documentation & Consulting on Arrival
Today's episode is with Jessica Coon, an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Syntax and Indigenous Languages. Much of Jessica’s work has focused on Mayan languages, in particular Ch’ol (a language of southern Mexico) and Chuj (a...
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Ep. 39: Eric W. Campbell on Otomanguean Language Documentation & Mobilization
This month's episode is with Eric W. Campbell, an Associate Professor of linguistics at University of California, Santa Barbara. Eric received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Eric is a field linguist who is interested in all levels of linguistic structure and historical...
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Ep. 38: Anthony C. Woodbury on Language Documentation & Field Linguistics Training
This month's guest is Anthony C. Woodbury, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Woodbury has taught in the UT Linguistics Department since 1980, serving as its chair for nine years. He was elected Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2017, and Vice-President…
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Ep. 37: Linguistic Fieldwork with Claire Bowern
Welcome to a new season of Field Notes! This month, Claire Bowern is on the pod for Season Four's inaugural episode. Claire Bowern is a historical linguist whose research is centered around language change and language documentation in Indigenous Australia. She received her BA in LInguistics and...
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Ep. 36: Quechuan Language Documentation & Revitalization with Gladys Camacho Ríos
In this final Season 3 episode, Gladys Camacho Ríos discusses her work on her native language, South Bolivian Quechua. Gladys works with elderly monolingual Quechua speakers in rural Bolivia. She is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. She previously earned two MA...
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Ep 35: Azamgarhi Language Documentation with Maaz Shaikh
Today’s episode is with Maaz Shaikh, a Junior Research Fellow pursuing his Ph.D. at the Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Maaz is an emerging linguist having research interests primarily in language documentation and description, along with language...
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Ep 34: Ana D. Alonso Ortiz on Zapotec Language Documentation & Revitalization
Ana D. Alonso Ortiz is a Zapotec researcher and translator from Oaxaca, Mexico. She is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of the Amerindian Studies and Bilingual Education master’s program at the University of Queretaro. Her research focuses on the language description and...
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Ep 33: Azeb Amha on Afroasiatic Language Documentation & Description
This month's episode is with Dr. Azeb Amha from the University of Leiden. Azeb is a linguist with interest in the morphology and syntax of Afroasiatic languages, linguistic typology and in the interdisciplinary fields of anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics. She has worked extensively...
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Ep 32: Michael Karani on Arusa Ideophone Documentation & Description
This month's episode is with Michael Karani from the University of Dar es Salaam. Michael teaches linguistics and communication studies at Dar es Salaam. He holds a BA and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Dar es Salaam and a PhD in African Languages from Stellenbosch University.…
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Ep 31: Catalan Language Normalization with Guillem Belmar
This month’s episode is with Guillem Belmar from UC Santa Barbara. Guillem focuses his research on language revitalization strategies as well as documentation of endangered or minoritized languages. He has worked on language promotion for many European languages and runs the...
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Ep 30: Pedro Mateo Pedro on Mayan Language Research & Revitalization
This month's episode is with Pedro Mateo Pedro from University of Toronto. Pedro is a native speaker of Q’anjob’al, a Mayan language of Guatemala. His research focuses on the documentation and description of Mayan languages, specifically language acquisition, Mayan languages in contact and...
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Ep 29: Jaime Pérez González on Tseltal & Mocho' language documentation in Mexico
Jaime Pérez González is a Tseltal (Maya) researcher, writer, and translator from Tenango, Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico. He is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his master’s in American-Indian Linguistics at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in...
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Ep 28: Irabu Ryukyuan Language Documentation with Michinori Shimoji
Today's episode is with Michinori Shimoji, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Kyushu University in Japan. He has a PhD from the Australian National University (ANU). He has published extensively on fieldwork-based descriptions of Ryukyuan languages, particularly Irabu Miyako, which is his...
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Ep 27: Field Notes Live Show with Hilaria Cruz on Field Linguistics & Chatino
The second episode of Season 3 is a live show with Hilaria Cruz from the University of Louisville. Hilaria is a native speaker of Chatino, an endangered Zapotecan language, spoken in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico and by Chatino who have migrated to the Southeastern United states. Hilaria is...
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Ep 26: Nancy Kula on Researching Bemba Phonology in Zambia
Welcome to Season 3 of Field Notes! Field Notes episodes will now be released monthly. This season will feature one insider linguist each month. If you would like to hear more Field Notes content, you can now support Field Notes on Patreon! This special first episode features Professor Nancy Kula...
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Ep 25: Tibeto-Burman Field Linguistics with Shobhana Chelliah
Today's episode is with Shobhana Chelliah, a Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics and Associate Dean at the University of North Texas (UNT). Shobhana is a documentary linguist interested in creating descriptions that expand typological discovery, primarily of the Tibeto-Burman…
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Ep 24: Pius Akumbu on Insider Research in Babanki
This episode marks the Season Two finale with Professor Pius Akumbu, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on the documentation and description of Grassfields Bantu...
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Ep 23: Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork with Willem de Reuse
This week's episode is with Willem de Reuse. Willem specializes in the description of Native American languages, particularly Siouan and Athabaskan languages. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the Siberian Yupik language. He has published on morphological theory, language contact, and historical...
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Ep 22: N. Haʻalilio Solomon on Activism & Language Ideologies in ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi
Today's episode is with N. Haʻalilio Solomon, who is an Instructor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa at Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language, where he is also a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics. Haʻalilio is also a translator for ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi with Awaiaulu and...
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Ep 21: Community-Based Documentation with Sheena Shah
This week's episode is with Sheena Shah, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg in Germany. She is currently working on a 2-year project documenting siPhuthi. Sheena has conducted linguistic fieldwork on a number of languages in Southern Africa, including several indigenous...
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Ep 20: Andrew Harvey & Richard Griscom on Teamwork in the Field
Today's episode is with Andrew Harvey and Richard Griscom from Leiden University. Andrew and Richard have just returned from their most recent field trip to Tanzania and in this episode, they discuss their current projects (documenting Gorwaa, Hadza, and Ihanzu) and teamwork in the field. Things...
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Ep 19: Dreamtime Narratives & Language Sustainability with Dorothea Hoffmann
Today’s episode is with Dorothea Hoffmann, a documentary linguist who has worked in remote parts of Northern Australia with speakers of MalakMalak, Jaminjung, and Kriol. In North America, she has been involved in language revitalization projects for the Acoma, Ute, Stoney Nakoda, Ho-Chunk and...
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Ep 18: Documenting Linguistic Avoidance in Datooga with Alice Mitchell
This week's episode is with Alice Mitchell, a Junior Professor at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne in Germany. Alice holds a BA in German and Linguistics from the University of Oxford, an MA in Language Documentation and Description from SOAS, and a PhD in…
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Ep 17: Mary Walworth on Fieldwork with a Baby
Today's episode is with Mary Walworth from the Max Planck Institute. Mary is co-leader of the Comparative Oceanic Languages (CoOL) Project at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany. She received her MA and PhD from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where she…
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Ep 16: Remote Fieldwork with Richard T. Griscom
This week's episode is with Richard T. Griscom, a post-doctoral researcher at Leiden University. Richard's research focuses on language documentation, fieldwork methodology, and functional-typological linguistic description and theory, with a special emphasis on the languages of East Africa. Over...
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Ep 15: Rethinking the ‘field’ in Fieldwork with Hannah Gibson
Today's episode is with Hannah Gibson, fellow SOASian and Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Essex. Hannah's research is primarily concerned with linguistic variation, particularly why and how languages change. Much of her work explores the syntax and semantics of the Bantu languages,...
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Ep 14: Fieldwork in the Time of COVID-19 with Guillem Belmar
Today's episode is Guillem Belmar, a Linguistics PhD student at UC Santa Barbara. In this episode, we discuss the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on fieldwork. This discussion was inspired by UCSB grad students who have started a group to share and debate online fieldwork, and this post on social...
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Ep 13: Jeff Good on Facilitating Language Documentation in Cameroon
Welcome to Season Two! This is the first episode of Season Two on Field Notes. Although we are living in strange times and fieldwork is not currently possible due to the COVID-19, Field Notes will continue publishing weekly episodes this season to share information and experiences from the field...
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Ep 12: Miroslav Valeš on Fieldwork in the Americas & Spain
This week’s interview is the Season 1 finale with Miroslav Valeš (Technical University of Liberec). In this interview, Miroslav discusses his long and varied fieldwork career, and his experiences working with the Lakhota (USA), Shuar (Ecuador) and A Fala (Spain) communities. Content Warning…
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Ep 11: Alex Garcia on Monolingual Fieldwork in The Philippines
Today’s episode is with Alex Garcia (University of Barcelona). Alex works with the Northern Alta Community in the Philippines. In this episode, Alex discusses how he started working with speakers of Nothern Alta, and how he learned Northern Alta in order to conduct monolingual fieldwork. Things...
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Ep 10: Fieldwork Q&A with Vera Ferreira & Hugo Cardoso (Part 2)
Today's episode is part two of our Q&A episode with Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS & ELDP) & Hugo Cardoso (University of Lisbon). In this episode, we discuss questions from listeners such as "How can fieldworkers deal with the often tragic and uncomfortable circumstances in the field?", "How can we reduce...
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Ep 9: Fieldwork Q&A with Vera Ferreira & Hugo Cardoso (Part 1)
Today's episode is with Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS & ELDP) & Hugo Cardoso (University of Lisbon). In this episode, Martha, Hugo & Vera discuss questions sent in from listeners. Questions include "How can collected data be shared in a meaningful way with communities" and "What do researchers prioritise...
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Ep 8: Lauren Gawne on Funding Fieldwork
This episode is with Lauren Gawne who does fieldwork in Nepal working with speakers of Yolmo and Syuba. Lauren has experience as both a successful grant applicant and as a grant committee assessor. In this episode, she shares her advice for navigating applying for funding in the current...
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Ep 7: Community Collaboration for Language Documentation in the Tanzanian Rift Valley with Andrew Harvey
This episode is with Andrew Harvey, who is a documentary linguist working with speakers of two previously un-documented languages, Ihanzu and Gorwaa (Tanzania). Andrew discusses his research, the seredipitous beginning to his work with the Gorwaa community, and how community collaboration has...
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Ep 6: Madoka Hammine on Insider Research in the Ryukyus
This episode is with insider researcher Madoka Hammine, who is a PhD student at University of Lapland in Finland. Madoka works on her heritage language, Yaeyama (Ryukyuan), as both a linguist and a language activist. Her PhD project is entitled: "embracing multilingualism in education", based on...
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Ep 5: Khairunnisa on Insider Researcher Language Documentation on Sasak
This episode is with Khairunnisa, who is researching variation and politeness strategies in her own language, Sasak (Lombok, Indonesia). In this episode, Khairunnisa discusses how working as an insider researcher influences her research methods, and how she manages the challenges of adhering to...
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Ep 4: Hugo Cardoso on Researching Creoles in Sri Lanka & India
In this episode, Hugo Cardoso discusses his work with the creole-speaking communities of Diu and Kerala and the Portuguese Burgher community (Eastern Sri Lanka). Things mentioned in this episode: Hugo's profile on the University of Lisbon website:...
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Ep 3: Lyle Campbell on Language Documentation in the Americas
In this episode, Lyle Campbell shares stories from his work in the Americas, discusses what has changed in the field of Documentary Linguistics since he started his career, and gives some food-related advice to new field workers. Things mentioned in this episode: Endangered Languages Project:...
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Ep 2: Vera Ferreira on Linguistic Fieldwork in Europe
Vera Ferreira discusses her fieldwork in Europe working with the Minderico (Portugal), Fala (Spain), and Bavarian (Germany) communities. Things mentioned in this episode: CIDLeS: http://www.cidles.eu Fala language on Wikipedia Bavarian language on Wikipedia Minderico language on Wikipedia Get in...
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Ep 1: Welcome to Field Notes!
Welcome to Field Notes! This podcast aims to share the stories of linguists doing fieldwork to document, describe, and research languages (especially endangered/minority languages). In Season One, we will be interviewing several field linguists about their work and how they would advise new...
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