News (11 entries)
All systems up and running
In the past two weeks we have experienced some problems with the L&C Field Manuals and Stimulus Archives website due to a server crash. No data was lost, but the… More →
Early years now available
The earliest Language and Cognition field guides date back to 1992, when the L&C department was still known as the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group. While some of these early materials… More →
Volumes 1995 and 1996 now available
We’ve just added fourteen new entries from the 1995 and 1996 L&C Field Manuals. The materials range from a cross-linguistic questionnaire on demonstratives (Pederson & Wilkins) to the Enter-exit animations… More →
Entries from 1999 Field Manual now available
We’ve just added a dozen entries from the 1999 Field Manual. These include questionnaires on Motion Lexicalisation and Motion Description, Event Integration and Demonstratives. There is also some unique elicitation… More →
Recent additions
We’ve just made available a number of new entries: sharing among children across cultures, a task for cross-cultural research on prosociality; folk definitions of ideophones, a field method for collection… More →
Fourteen new entries available
We just made available fourteen new entries from the 2001 volume of the L&C Field Manuals. This includes video-based elicitation tasks (Event triads, Staged events), methods for building video corpora… More →
Now known as the Language & Cognition Department
The Language & Cognition Group is now known as the Language & Cognition Department, due to an institutional reorganisation. The mission statement for the Language & Cognition research program remains… More →
The story so far, and looking into the future
The first few months of the L&C Field Manuals and Stimulus Materials website have been above expectations. We think it’s time for some preliminary statistics and an improvement: “recommend this… More →
Two classics now online: BowPed and Cut and Break
Two L&C field manual entries that have seen particularly wide circulation over the years are the Topological Relations Picture Series, affectionately known as BowPed after its authors, and the Cut… More →
Now available: Field Manual 2003
We’ve just made another volume available for download: Field Manual 2003, edited by N.J. Enfield. This volume contains fourteen entries, ranging from Folk Theories of Objects in Motion to Encoding… More →