Field Notes

Feb 21 2024 50 ep. 35 mins 152

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A podcast about linguistic fieldwork, where seasoned fieldworkers share their stories from the field of language documentation & description.

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Ep. 50: Field Notes Finale! Martha Tsutsui Billins & Laura Tsutsui on Amami Sociolinguistic Research

Feb 21 2024 39 mins

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 podcasting. Thanks so much for listening! Things mentioned in this episode: Uchinaa Yamatu-g

Ep. 49: Alexandra Philbin on Irish and Catalan Language Research & Revitalization

Feb 14 2024 28 mins

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 speakers of minoritized languages, particularly Irish speakers in Dublin and Valencian (C

Ep. 48: Yulha Lhawa on Khroskyabs Language Documentation & Revitalization

Jan 12 2024 53 mins

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 interest in linguistics during high school. This interest fueled her to create the trilin

Ep. 47: Karolina Grzech on Evidentiality and Epistemicity in Quechuan Languages

Dec 04 2023 45 mins

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 different aspects of knowledge). She is particularly interested in how these categorie

Ep. 46: Kate Lindsey on Idi and Ende Language Documentation in Papua New Guinea

Oct 31 2023 53 mins

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 underspecification and variation in phonological systems supported primarily by field data. Her diss

Ep. 45: Patrick Heinrich on Ryukyuan Language Documentation and Revitalization

Sep 28 2023 53 mins

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 Japanese Studies in 2002 at Duisburg University. He is a sociolinguist who has worked

Ep. 44: Myfany Turpin on Australian Aboriginal Song-poetry and Documentation

May 31 2023 36 mins

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 cultures; and identifying ways to support the continuation of endangered languages and perf

Ep. 43: Language Documentation & Revitalization in Canada with Nicholas Welch

Apr 19 2023 34 mins

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 from the University of Victoria. His Ph.D. is from the University of Calgary and his d

Ep. 42: Michelle Kamigaki-Baron on Pidgin & Secwepemctsín Language Research

Jan 31 2023 49 mins

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 involves speech production and perception, how these processes are changed in the context

Ep. 41: Ambrocio Gutiérrez Lorenzo on Zapotec Language Documentation & Revitalization

Dec 30 2022 25 mins

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 documentary and descriptive linguist whose research focuses on the syntax and semant