Stimuli archive
This collection contains a bonanza of material for the field elicitation of semantics and and the field collection of verbal behaviour. These are unique resources that have been compiled over twenty years of investigation of under-studied languages by the former Language and Cognition department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. During this period we collectively pioneered the field of semantic typology. 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...