Pahka'anil (Tübatulabal) Text Project

  
Michael Ahland
Department of Linguistics
California State University, Long Beach
A view of Lake Isabella

Credits and Acknowledgments

CSULB scholars who have contributed to the analysis, interlinearizations, and/or to the Pahka'anil Text Project in multiple other ways include: Bethany Lycan (2017-20), Cem Demir (2017-20), Sergio Sandoval (2017-18), Nicholas Sinetos (2017-18), Muhammad Damanhuri(2017-20), Genevieve Kimble (2018-20), Andie Niederecker (2019-20), Donald Arrington (2019-20), Peyton Nesler (2019), Nubia Ku Chi (2019-20), Lauren Bray (2020), and Brigid Shanley (2020-21). Bethany Lycan served as the research team leader (from 2019-2020); her work included organizing the other researchers, offering ELAN training, and assisting with issues related to analysis and tagging. Cem Demir also continues to convert texts from ELAN to his HTML format; he has also developed multiple interface revisions and new playback options according to the wishes of the Pakanapul Language Team teachers and community leaders.

This project has been supported by funds from a HOGAR Summer Faculty Grant (2017), two other CSULB faculty research grants (Summer 2018 and 2019-2020), the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (CSULB 2019-2020; 2020-2021), and a summer student research assistantship (2020). Student-researchers and assistants have also been supported through the CSULB Linguistics Department.

And of course, this project would not be possible without the warm invitation of the Pakanapul Language Team and Tübatulabal Tribal leadership, especially Robert Gomez (Tribal Chair), Tina Guerrero (Vice Chair), and Betsy Johnson. Mr. Gomez and Ms. Guerrero, particularly, have offered many hours of their time to help our team. This has included hikes throughout the area (visiting important archeological and cultural sites), providing the team with hard-to-find copies of early research on the language, and lending their own voices to the recordings of story and song. This project is also deeply indebted to Lindsay Marean who worked with the Pakanapul Language Team as a practical linguist for years. Lindsay has made much of her excellent work available to us, and she has continued to offer advice from her vast experience on Pahka'anil grammatical minutiae.

This project uses wavesurfer.js open source library, distributed under a BSD-3-Clause License, to render waveforms.

Pahka'anil Text Project@CSULBLinguistics
2018-2020