Pite Saami fieldwork tutorial - tentative schedule
   
 
   
 
Day General Topic Details Homework for next session

Tues.
2nd March

Introduction

  • introduction
  • Pite Saami - the language and it's people (PDF-slides)
  • basic equipment
  • recording an initial wordlist
  • create an ELAN annotation session for wordlist (incl. metadata)
  • make an initial list of phones
Wed.
3rd March

Recording audio

  • The basics of audio recordings
    (session run by David Nathan)
NB: in room 2052!
  • TBA
Thurs.
4th March

Phonology

  • minimal pairs
  • allophony
  • creating an initial phoneme inventory
  • filling the gaps and discussing difficulties from the previous sessions
Dowload list of elicited words
  • create an ELAN annotation session for today's recording (incl. metadata)
  • write up an initial phoneme inventory
Fri.
5th March

Organizing data

  • Databases and XML editing for fieldworkers
    (session run by Ciprian Gerstenberger)
  • TBA
Mon.
8th March

Morphology

  • inflectional morphology
  • derivational morphology
  • collecting paradigms
  • filling the gaps and discussing difficulties from the previous sessions
  • recording a few simple sentences
  • create an ELAN annotation session for today's recording (incl. metadata)
  • write up initial paradigms
Tues.
9th March

Morphophonology

  • the interaction of phonology and morphology in (Pite) Saami
  • filling the gaps and discussing difficulties from the previous sessions
  • recording a few more complex sentences
  • create an ELAN annotation session for today's recording (incl. metadata)
  • write up initial morphophonological analysis
Wed.
10th March
Basic Syntax
  • syntax in (Pite) Saami
  • filling the gaps and discussing difficulties from the previous sessions
  • free elicitation of other phenomena
    NB: in room 2052!
  • create an ELAN annotation session for today's recording (incl. metadata)
  • write up initial syntactic results
Thurs.
11th March
Collecting texts
  • possibilities for recording texts
  • recording a short text
  • annotation of text
  • any other topics
  • complete the ELAN annotation session for today's recording (incl. metadata)
 
  updated on: 04.03.2010