Prereq: LING L307 (Phonology); Recommended: LING L306 (Phonetics).
Section meets with LING L653.
Section open to undergraduates only.

Text: Newman, Paul, and Martha Ratliff (eds.). Linguistic
Fieldwork. Cambridge University Press. (2001)

This course is an introduction to the procedures used in the
collection and analysis of primary linguistic data based on work with
a native speaker of a language unknown to the students. The focus is
on learning by doing. Students will learn how to conduct informant
sessions, do accurate transcription, organize and analyze data, and
write grammatical sketches. The course will also cover practical and
ethical aspects of fieldwork.
In addition to the regularly scheduled classroom times, students will
meet individually with the native speaker for an hour per week to
gather data. The language to be investigated in the course will be a
West African language.

Evaluation will be based on class presentations and participation,
the informant sessions, a final project, and possibly a final exam.