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1992 Field Manual entries

'Man and Tree & Space Games'; 'Space in Australian Languages Questionnaire'; 'Topological Relations Picture Series (BowPed)'; 'Topological Relations Pictures: Static Relations'; 'Topological Relations Pictures: Topological Paths'

1993 Field Manual entries

'Exploring the Intrinsic Frame of Reference'; 'Preliminary 'Come' and 'Go' Questionnaire'; 'Route Description Elicitation'

1995 Field Manual entries

''Logical' Connectives in Natural Language: A First Questionnaire'; 'Background questions for the "enter"/"exit" research'; 'Enter/Exit Animation for Linguistic Elicitation'; 'Intransitive Predicate Form Class Survey'; 'Motion Elicitation: "Moving 'in(to)'" and "Moving 'out (of)'"'; 'Pilot Questionnaire to Investigate Social Uses of Space'; 'Posture Verb Survey'; 'Questionnaire on Event Realization'; 'Recommendations for Data Collection for Gesture Studies'; 'Towards a Socio-Cultural Profile of the Communities We Work With'

1996 Field Manual entries

'A Cross-Linguistic Questionnaire on "Demonstratives"'; 'Bloxes: An Interactive Task for the Elicitation of Dimensional Expressions'; 'Route Descriptions: Interactive Games with Eric's Maze Task'; 'Suggestions for Field Research on Dimensional Expressions'

1999 Field Manual entries

'"Locally-Anchored Spatial Gestures": Historical Description of the Local Environment As a Gesture Elicitation Task'; '1999 Demonstrative Questionnaire: "This" and "That" in Comparative Perspective'; 'A Questionnaire On: Motion Lexicalisation and Motion Description'; 'A Questionnaire on Event Integration'; 'Deixis and Demonstratives'; 'Eliciting contrastive use of demonstratives for objects within close personal space (all objects well within arm's reach)'; 'Ethnography of Pointing Questionnaire'; 'Event Representation and Event Complexity: General Introduction'; 'General...

2001 Field Manual entries

'Body'; 'Caused Positions'; 'Cut and Break Clips'; 'Demonstratives in Context'; 'Ethnography of Pointing'; 'Event Triads'; 'Hidden colour-chips task: demonstratives, attention, and interaction'; 'Locally-Anchored Narrative'; 'Locally-Anchored Spatial Gestures version 2: Historical Description of the Local Environment as a Gesture Elicitation Task'; 'Motion Verb Stimulus (Moverb) version 2'; 'Motionland Films (v. 2): Referential Communication Task with Motionland Stimulus'; 'Recognitional Deixis'; 'Staged Events'; 'Time and Space Questionnaire'; '...

2003 Field Manual entries

''Fish Traps' Task'; 'Body Colouring Task'; 'Directing Attention and Pointing in Infants: A Cross-Cultural Approach'; 'Encoding Shape: Formal Means and Semantic Distinctions'; 'Fictive motion questionnaire'; 'Folk Theories of Objects in Motion'; 'Interview on Kinship'; 'Island Melanesia Project'; 'Kids' Cut & Break'; 'Landscape Terms and Place Names Questionnaire'; 'Multimodal Interaction in Your Field Site: A Preliminary Investigation'; 'Multimodal Multiperson Interaction with Infants Aged 9 to 15 Months'; 'Reasoning in Language'; '...

2004 Field Manual entries

'Building a Corpus of Multimodal Interaction in your Field Site'; 'Initial References to Persons and Places'; 'Landscape Terms and Place Names Elicitation Guide'; 'Lexical Comparison Between Papuan Languages: Inland Bird and Tree Species'; 'Melanesian Kinship and Culture'; 'Multimodal Multiperson Interaction with Infants Aged 9 To 15 Months'; 'Participation and Posture'; 'Put Project: The Cross-Linguistic Encoding of Placement Events'; 'Question Sequences in Interaction'; 'Reciprocal Constructions and Situation Type'; 'Repair Sequences in Interaction'; 'Response Systems and...

2007 Field Manual entries

'Building a Corpus of Multimodal Interaction in your Field Site'; 'Emotion Categories in Language and Thought'; 'Ethnography of Pointing - Field Worker's Guide'; 'Expressives'; 'Infant Pointing (9-15 Months) in Different Cultures'; 'Language of Perception: Overview of Field Tasks'; 'Language of Perception: The View From Language and Culture'; 'Repair Sequences in Interaction'; 'The Language of Olfaction'; 'The Language of Sound'; 'The Language of Taste'; 'The Language of Touch'; 'The Language of Vision I: Colour'; 'The Language of Vision II: Shape...

2008 Field Manual entries

'Constructions in 'Language and Perception''; 'Ethnography of the Senses'; 'Focal Colours'; 'Language of Perception: Views From Anthropology'; 'Metalanguage for Speech Acts'; 'Social Action Formulation – A '10-Minutes' Task'; 'Synaesthesia: A Cross-Cultural Pilot (v. 1)'; 'Time and Space Questionnaire'; 'Time in Space'

2009 Field Manual entries

'Emotion Concepts'; 'Metalanguage for Speech Acts'; 'Semplates: A Guide to Identification and Elicitation'; 'Social Action Formulation – A '10-Minutes' Task'; 'Socialisation of Prelinguistic Communication'; 'Synaesthesia: A Cross-Cultural Pilot (v. 2)'; 'The Ethnography of Emotions: A Field Worker's Guide'; 'The Language of Sound: II'

2010 Field Manual entries

'Folk Definitions of Ideophones'; 'Knowledge Asymmetries in Grammar and Interaction'

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Persistent Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/ad36e546-be8b-4351-bc6f-06436af9df72
Description: 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 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 this website provides a freely accessible central repository. A word of caution: not all the materials are self-contained. We have provided downloadable audio-visual material wherever possible. Some tasks however require external props or physical stimuli, as flagged. In publications or presentations based on these materials, please cite correctly as indicated next to each resource, in accordance with the regulations on use. Looking at these materials may inspire you to make your own. But there is a particular advantage to using these ready made materials as well if they seem appropriate — namely, the data from earlier applications to other languages gives a comparative perspective otherwise hard to get. See a representative selection of our publications for this perspective. Stephen C. Levinson, Asifa Majid
REGULATIONS ON USE: This collection and the materials herewith supplied have been developed by members of the Language and Cognition Department of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (formerly the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group). In a number of cases materials were designed in collaboration with staff from other MPI groups. Proper attribution and citation: Any use of the materials should be acknowledged in publications or other distributed material. Entries have been developed by different individuals. Please cite authors as indicated on the webpage and front page of the PDF entry. Use of associated stimuli should also be cited by acknowledging the field manual entry. Intellectual property rights are hereby asserted. No redistribution: We urge you not redistribute these files yourself; instead point people to the appropriate page on the Field Manual archives site. This is important for the continuing presence of the website. We will be updating materials, correcting errors and adding information over time. The most recent versions of materials can always be found on our website.

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  Description : 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 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 this website provides a freely accessible central repository. A word of caution: not all the materials are self-contained. We have provided downloadable audio-visual material wherever possible. Some tasks however require external props or physical stimuli, as flagged. In publications or presentations based on these materials, please cite correctly as indicated next to each resource, in accordance with the regulations on use. Looking at these materials may inspire you to make your own. But there is a particular advantage to using these ready made materials as well if they seem appropriate — namely, the data from earlier applications to other languages gives a comparative perspective otherwise hard to get. See a representative selection of our publications for this perspective. Stephen C. Levinson, Asifa Majid
  
  Description : REGULATIONS ON USE: This collection and the materials herewith supplied have been developed by members of the Language and Cognition Department of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (formerly the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group). In a number of cases materials were designed in collaboration with staff from other MPI groups. Proper attribution and citation: Any use of the materials should be acknowledged in publications or other distributed material. Entries have been developed by different individuals. Please cite authors as indicated on the webpage and front page of the PDF entry. Use of associated stimuli should also be cited by acknowledging the field manual entry. Intellectual property rights are hereby asserted. No redistribution: We urge you not redistribute these files yourself; instead point people to the appropriate page on the Field Manual archives site. This is important for the continuing presence of the website. We will be updating materials, correcting errors and adding information over time. The most recent versions of materials can always be found on our website.

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Stephen C. Levinson, N.J. Enfield, Asifa Majid, Juergen Bohnemeyer, David Wilkins, Gunter Senft, Sotaro Kita, Eric Pederson, Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown, Tanya Stivers, Jan Peter de Ruiter, Alice Gaby, Mark Dingemanse, Ulf Liszkowski, Eve Danziger, Niclas Burenhult, Angela Terrill, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Christel Stolz, Eva Lindström, Lera Boroditsky, Mark A. Sicoli, Michael Dunn, Miriam van Staden, Olivier Le Guen, Sonja Eisenbeiss, Suzanne Gaskins, Tessa van Leeuwen, Aslı Özyürek, Bill McGregor, Carlien de Witte, Clair Hill, Claudia Maria Schmidt, Deborah Hill, Disa Sauter, Dorothé Salomo, Elena Lieven, Elisabeth Norcliffe, Elizabeth Keating, Eva Danziger, Felix K. Ameka, Frank Seifart, Frauke M. Hellwig, Friederike Lüpke, Ger Reesink, John B. Haviland, Katja Bödeker, Lila San Roque, Lourdes de León, Marianne Gullberg, Martijn Caelen, Martina Faller, Nick Evans, Patty Epps, Sylvia Tufvesson, Sérgio Meira, and Tricia Striano. (1992 - 2011). Collection "Field Manuals". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/ad36e546-be8b-4351-bc6f-06436af9df72. (Accessed 2023-10-02)

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