I am honored to have been awarded funding by the National Science Foundation to complete my doctoral dissertation research on Kachok (aka: Kaco, Kaco’, Kacho, Kachok, Kacoq), an unstudied Austroasiatic language.  The grant is a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, and the title is Expanding Phonological Typology through Kaco’ Sound Patterns.  (Linguists, please note that I didn’t write the summary found on that page).

The Kachok language is spoken by the Kachok people, who live in rural northeastern Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia.

Andoung Meas is the location of several Kachok-speaking villages that lie along the Tonle San River (Tonle Sesan).  To collect data on the Kachok language, I will make two fieldwork trips:

For the first, I spent eight weeks in Andoung Meas, living and working with Kachok villagers, during July and August of 2016.

For the second, I will spend four weeks doing the same during July and August of 2017.