When a new collection arrived at UC Berkeley’s California Language Archive, graduate student Tyler Lee-Wynant found hours of recordings of his aunt speaking Northern Pomo — tapes he and his family had never heard before.
By Anne Brice, Jason Pohl
Tyler Lee-Wynant (right) is a UC Berkeley Ph.D. student in linguistics. As a graduate student researcher at the California Language Archive, he is cataloging and analyzing a collection that includes hours of recordings of his great-great aunt.
Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley
June 10, 2026
