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Sesiones lingüisticas: English-language series (c. 1961) The Chiapas Project
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- archival Tape 1: Zinacantan [etc.] Contents: McQuown, speaking English, opens the session, saying "Tzotzil. Zinacantan. Informant: Domingo della Torre Perez. And this is Laura Colby's report." (Appears to be a committee evaluating her work.) On Track 2 one hears the voice of Nicholas Hopkins (?).
- archival Tape 2: Kaufman on Tzeltal (Aguacatenango) Contents: Track 1: Kaufman makes "some remarks about the Aguacatenango dialect of Tzeltal". Track 2: Kaufman continues. About 14 minutes into the recording a new speaker (male) (Radhakrishnan?) begins.
- archival Tape 3: McQuown on paralinguistics Contents: Track 1: McQuown continues his remarks from the previous tape (?). [JJT hears the voices of Robert Blair (?) and Nicholas Hopkins (?).] A man named "Raul" also speaks. Track 2: Male researcher, speaking English, begins. [The lecture is punctuated by booms (firecrackers?).]
- archival Tape 4: McQuown continues his remarks Contents: Track 1: Conversation continues from the previous tape. McQuown is speaking with Overton Brent Berlin (?). Terrence Kaufman is also heard on the tape. Track 2: The conversation from Track 1 continues.
- sound spa-sesling-eng-2b-ed Contents=Track 2 of the tape, edited
- sound spa-sesling-eng-4b-ed Contents=Track 2 of the tape, edited