This week's episode is with Alice Mitchell, a Junior Professor at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne in Germany. Alice holds a BA in German and Linguistics from the University of Oxford, an MA in Language Documentation and Description from SOAS, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on the Datooga language of Tanzania, where she has been conducting fieldwork since 2012. 
In this episode, Alice talks us through her work in Tanzania, and her experiences documenting name avoidance and studying children's speech in Datooga. 
Things mentioned in this episode:
Ep 16: Remote Fieldwork with Richard T. Griscom
Guernésiais language
Datooga language
Nilotic language family
An Introduction to African Languages by Tucker Childs
avoidance registers
Røde NTG-2 microphone
Zoom H4N audio recorder
Zoom Q8 video recorder
ME 62 Sennheiser omnidirectional microphone
Voltaic Systems solar panel
Varikin Project
On communicative competence. . .in the field by Leslie C. Moore

 
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