Fieldwork tools

General information

• Information on linguistics fieldwork, Stanford University
• Language archiving technology
• Linguistic fieldwork preparation, University of Toronto
• What is language documentation?, The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
• The Self-Sufficient Fieldworker: Tips, tricks, and lists for successful longish-term field research trips

Elicitation tools

• Original (1960s, 20-page) "Survey sheet" for California language documentation [PDF]
• Typological tools for field linguists, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Books on linguistic fieldwork

• Bowern, Claire. 2008. Linguistic fieldwork: A practical guide. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [publication link]
• Gippert, Jost, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, and Ulrike Mosel, eds. 2006. Essentials of language documentation. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. [publication link]
• Newman, Paul and Martha Ratliff, eds. 2001. Linguistic fieldwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [publication link]
• Vaux, Bert and Justin Cooper. 1999. Introduction to linguistic field methods. Lincom Europa.

Guides to recording equipment

• Akustyk reviews of recording equipment
• Digital audio field recording equipment guide, Vermont Folklife Center
• Recorder reviews, transom.org