Linguistic Fieldwork
by Claire Bowern · Claire Bowern
Claire Bowern's practical handbook for fieldwork on undescribed languages, covering project planning, funding, recording equipment, elicitation of phonology, morphology and syntax, discourse collection, ethics and archiving. Readers learn how to run field sessions and turn raw recordings into usable linguistic analysis.
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