Phonetic Survey of Kyrgyz Dialects

This page organises and shows off my research on the phonetics of Kyrgyz dialects which I am conducting in the 2007-2008 academic year on a Fulbright grant.

Human Subjects

After determining how I was going to conduct my project, I applied for human subjects approval. This was finally granted in April. My questionnaires and consent forms, as well as some sample images were approved.

Preparation

1. Decide what topics to examine most closely (Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects#Linguistic topics)
2. Decide what word forms/patterns would fit these topics (Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects#List of forms to elicit)
3. Find words to match these patterns (Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects#Organising Wordlist)
4. Organise words, weed out unneeded, add extra (Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects#Final Wordlist)
5. Take pictures of words found
6. Print pictures

Results

Regional affiliation of subjects as of the end of the fieldwork.

Distribution of subjects by decade of birth as of the end of the fieldwork.

Distribution of subjects by gender as of the end of the fieldwork.

This section shows off my results. At this point, there's just some demographic data of the 35 subjects, as of the end of the fieldwork, including a map of subjects' regional affiliations, a graph of age distribution of subjects based on year of birth, and a graph showing distribution of subjects by gender.