Computer toys
Click here if you're not totally conversant with the proper way to right click to download a font or program.
Information on fonts and typing utilities.
Speech Analyser, a program that does acoustic analysis of speech. It allows you to digitize, select portions of utterance for selective listening, also gives you spectrograms and other such things. This is the small-sized install (15Mb), which doesn't take forever to download. There is a newer version, 2.0, which costs money and supposedly is better (according to them): if you want to check it out, whack this link. Read this for an explanation of how to use Speech Analyser.
There is also a data manipulation program called Toolbox, available from SIL, which I haven't tried yet (as of this writing).
Lexical materials etc.
Basic wordlist and the Word document file version. These are suggested words for elicitation.
A page with general information about Bakweri people and some language stuff. This is, shall we say, a popular page, not a strictly academic one.
Where Bakweri is spoken (look especially on the south slopes of Mt. Cameroun, in Buea):
General literature about doing field work. You should read this.
Some general philosophical-type discussion on what field work is about and why you might want to do it, and discussion of why there are errors.
Doing transcriptions, and a link to Ladefoged's IPA chart with sounds. These are "performance" sounds, not real language examples, but they are useful in establishing a basic reference point on what the symbols are supposed to represent.
Some suggestions about conducting your own work: what to do in your first session, and discussion of ways of organising your data.
Here are some more concrete suggestions. First, here is a description of some things you might want to look at, generally speaking (this isn't particular to Bakweri). Second, this file suggests a number of things to look at that are specific to Bakweri, based on what we know right this moment.
Assignment-like stuff
New plan regarding the assignments. The next paper is due at the beginning of class (or before: this is a real, hard deadline), Monday Nov. 8. In this paper, you should summarize the essence of the grammar of Bakweri, given what you know. That means, list the phonemes and mention any noticeable phonetic details of pronunciation, discuss whatever phonological rules you have evidence for, extract whatever generalizations you have about morphology and syntax (such as the formation of singulars and plurals, anything about agreement, and so on). On the one hand, you should not give me literally every little detail you have (like, I don't need to know about errors that you made that you now understand), but you shouldn't just give me the stuff that you are completely certain of. So here's the standard: tell me of the stuff that you are certain of, and of the stuff that you have good reason to think is true, but not the stuff that does not seem likely to be true.
Then, the last paper (due as before) is a detailed / focused description of a specific aspect of the grammar.
The in-class elicitation schedule. Look here for the order of who does what what day in class (first version: not to be changed unless really necessary).