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== Goals in Kyrgyzstan, round 2 == | == Goals in Kyrgyzstan, round 2 == | ||
* Travel and collect data | * Travel and collect data | ||
** At least two people in at least two villages in each of 47 regions | |||
* … | * … | ||
== List of forms to elicit == | |||
=== Rounding harmony systems, How far through a word harmony spreads === | |||
=== Monopthongisation / diphthongisation === | |||
=== Tonogenesis === | |||
=== Acoustic properties of vowel system === | |||
=== The 9th vowel, phonemic? === | |||
=== Figure out the stress system === | |||
== Final Wordlist == | |||
[[Category:Turkic Languages]] | [[Category:Turkic Languages]] | ||
Revision as of 13:05, 5 April 2008
Linguistic topics
What to look at
- Rounding harmony systems
- How far through a word harmony spreads
- Monopthongisation — phonetic and phonological
- Tonogenesis
- Acoustic properties of vowel system
- [reduction and diphthongisation of] high vowels (Russified in Bishkek, Kazakhified in Talas?)
- low vowels as related to rounding harmony
- The 9th vowel, phonemic?
- Figure out the stress system
- Sonority
- /r.l/ → [r.d], [r.l]?
- sonority of /n/ suffix-initially like glide?
By
- Age
- Urbanisation (city, village, steppe)
- Multilingualism (esp. influence from Russian (Bishkek), Kazakh (Talas), Uzbek (Osh))
- Tribe, apparently
Goals in Kyrgyzstan, round 1
- Improve own Kyrgyz skills
- Begin collecting lesser, non-experimental data
- Prepare experiments
- Consult with & work with local scholars
- Design experiments
- File for human subjects approval
- Data collection plan
- Decide on areas of most interest
- Plan travel
Goals in Kyrgyzstan, round 2
- Travel and collect data
- At least two people in at least two villages in each of 47 regions
- …
