December 3, 2025
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
- We have accessioned several new recordings to Berkeley Linguistics Lectures, a collection of sound recordings of linguistics-related lectures on campus from 1960 to 1985, including but not limited to:
- Paul Garvin, 1961, The Structure of Kutenai
- Mary Haas, 1965 Faculty Research Lecture, The Prehistory of Languages
- William Shipley, 1966, Orientation to the Survey of California Indian Languages and Cultural and Genetic Relationships
- Björn Lindblom, 1975, The Phonetic Cost Benefit Analysis of Phonological Facts: Possibilities and Limitations
- Madison Beeler, 1977, Thirty-Six Years of Linguistics at Berkeley
- Wendy López Márquez has accessioned Documentación Colaborativa del Nuntajɨɨyi (Mixe-Zoquean; Mexico), consisting of video recordings with complete transcriptions and translations in ELAN of 30 texts. Her project has been carried out with Antonio Victoria Sebastián, Carolina González González, Jennifer López Márquez, Acasio Ramírez Hernández, Erasmo Rodríguez López, Lorenzo Rodríguez López, and Emmanuel Rodríguez Ramírez.
- We have accessioned 14 boxes of file slips into Jane Hill's collection of Cupeño (Uto-Aztecan; California) materials (see items HillJ.006.001 thru HillJ.006.014 here).
- We have accessioned the first two series of the William Weigel Collection of Yokutsan Language Materials (California), including sound recordings, original notes, and other paper documents related primarily to Yowlumne, with elders Jane Flippo and Agnes Vera, and Wukchumni, with Eddie Sartuche. Dr. Weigel received his PhD from this department in 2005 with a dissertation titled Yowlumne in the Twentieth Century and passed away in 2023.