Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of traditional narratives.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of traditional narratives and death rituals.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of word lists and short narratives about body parts, child birth, agriculture, names, adjectives, weather, ancestors, and making yeast.

Draft of the grammar of KokBorok with some placeholders. The grammar describes derivational and inflectional morphology and includes interlinear-glossed text examples.

This article explores networked learning technologies and the development of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The study examines and explains hybrid MOOCs and focuses on the use of bot-teachers within a post-humanist perspective. The research findings reveal that, while the use of bot-teachers is beneficial in terms of facilitating and increasing discourse/interaction, it is ineffective in providing other components of teaching presence. Yet ultimately, learners' positive behaviors indicate that bot-teachers hold promise as an educational tool.

This presentation discusses cataloging tasks, including Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD), Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD), and concepts related to the tasks and decisions involved in cataloging.

Article is a study using cross-sectional methodology to investigate information sources and knowledge concerning the ZIKV virus among 300 under-served pregnant Latinas recruited from prenatal care clinics in the North Texas region. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression models are used to investigate associations between the primary outcomes and patient characteristics.

Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar talk about the Totlang Kam Festival. The exchange is useful for cultural information, lexical items related to this important festival, and question and answer exchanges. Rengpu Rex Khullar accompanied his father Beshot Khullar to Chennai to share information on Lamkang with Shobhana Chelliah.

Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.

Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.

The speaker describes the process of beating the katu, an herb used in community fishing. Bundles of katu are beaten with a wooden rod to produce juice and bubbles.

The speaker narrates about the traditional practice of community fishing in Tharon village called makukha zuanbo. Tharon people do this from time to time during March-April.

Mrs. Humchung is one of the oldest people living in Thragom village. She describes the process of millet plantation. Firstly, they planted seedlings of millet, and after a few weeks, they made the soil loose. She says they practiced the labor exchange program, where they didn’t make cash payments to workers. During the break, they are offered fermented wine in an ox horn. Before millet plantation, they would get goats from Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and use the manure as fertilizer. She says that millet was planted before the arrival of the magpie, and that planting millet after the arrival of the magpie was considered late and generally wouldn’t have a good yield.

Mrs. Humchung is one of the oldest people living in Thragom village. She describes the process of millet plantation, saying there are two ways to plant millet. One is planted before the magpie departs, and another is planted when the magnolia flower blossoms. The latter one is not transplanted. In the past, when people forgot to plant seedlings before the arrival of the magpie, they would make the sound of the magpie and plant the millet when the magpie leaves instead.

The speaker narrates about the preparation for community fishing. In order to go fishing, some twenty or thirty people go to identify the spot. Based on everyone’s opinion, they decided on a place to do the fishing. A day before fishing, some members also go deep to the forest to collect katu, the herb used for fishing. Each member contributes their labor even before the real fishing begins.

Vinod describes Rakchham village’s history, its surroundings, local deities, and the surrounding environment. The recording was made at Uma Homestay.

The speaker identifies the different varieties of fish caught in the community fishing expedition.

Photograph of Donnu Sankhil making the firewood pile to dry firewood in Lamkang traditional way known as [dinghon tpurtuwn] in Lamkang.

Recording of an elicitation of determiners in Mankiyali using English sentences as prompts. The recording is contributed by Gohar-Ur Rehman, a 38-year old shop owner.

Recording of an elicitation of nominative (subject) pronouns in Mankiyali using English sentences as prompts. The contributor is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).

Recording of an elicitation of basic verb paradigms in Mankiyali in the simple present tense forms. The verbs covered are copula 'be' and verbs such as 'eat', 'drink', 'laugh' and 'sing'. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).

This is an elicitation of a word list consisting of numerals (mainly cardinal and some ordinal) and a few body parts in the Central (Zhung) variety of the Zangskari language. Recorded in Youlang village, Ladakh Union Territory, India.

Recording of This is an elicitation of words with open long syllables (CVV) in different positions. The purpose is to determine the relative weight of open long syllables for primary word stress placement. The contributor is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 40-year old male shop owner).