L&C Field Manuals and Stimulus Materials (fieldmanuals.mpi.nl)

[Mark Dingemanse]

Dear Linganth members,

We've recently launched a website that provides access to many of the 
field manuals produced over the years by the Language and Cognition 
Group (formerly Cognitive Anthropology Research Group) at the Max Planck 
Institute for Psycholinguistics.

The site contains a bonanza of material for the field elicitation of 
semantics and the field collection of verbal behaviour. These are unique 
resources that have been compiled over nearly twenty years of 
investigation of under-studied languages.

In many cases, the design of the tasks has been refined over recurrent 
field seasons, yielding well-adapted sensitive instruments for 
investigating e.g. semantic distinctions in a language without a writing 
system or a culture with only minimal schooling. In this way, the tasks 
are the joint product of many scholars working in over 50 languages and 
cultures.

For years these field manuals have been available on demand, but they 
have now been put online for the first time, and this site will serve as 
the online repository for both older manuals as well as new ones 
currently under development. Free registration is required to access the 
materials.

You can find the L&C Field Manuals and Stimulus Materials at 
http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/

Best,

Mark Dingemanse
Language & Cognition Group
MPI for Psycholinguistics