OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073825

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Title:		First session of image description in Kelleng
		Kell-Visual-Stimuli_01
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor:		ASSOMO
		MAKON
Contributor (consultant):		MBESSI MAKONDO
Contributor (researcher):		NGUE UM
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2016-07-26
Description:		Elicitation of vocabulary using visual stimuli is built around an interaction involving a consultant, the main researcher, and research assitants. Stimuli consist in collections of pictures which document the immediate social and natural environements of Kelleng village. Pictures are displayed on a computer screen; the view is zoomed in in such a way that the consultants can easily visually identify the object to be elicited. The main researcher points at the image, then the consultant responds by giving the name by which the pointed referent object is identified in the community.
		The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.
		Two languages are used during the elicitation session: French as the source language, and Bati (Kelleng variety) as the target language.
		Mbessi Makondo Gilbert as acted as one of the key informants for the research team during the first year of the project. Due to his extensive multilingualism coupled with a high sense of public network and relations, he has assisted the research team in most of their whereabouts throughout the various consultants who have agreed to lend themselves to research exercises. In some cases, Mbessi Gilbert has acted as the interviewer. This approach has been privileged in surveys dealing with anthropological, cultural and religous aspects. He had been trained by the research team in the monitoring of interviews, and in questionnaire administration, and has proven to be a talented and committed research assistant.
		Emmanuel Ngué Um is the Principal Investigator for the Bati project. He is mainly employed at the University of Yaoundé one where he holds the position of Senior Lectuer of Linguistics, in the Departement of Cameroonian Languages and Cultures at the Higher Teacher Training School. Ngué Um is also Associate Researcher at CERDOTOLA, where he is charged with the responsibility of Archive Manager for ALORA (Archive of Languages and Oral Resources of Africa).
		Assomo Celestine Ghislaine is a PhD student who is enroled in the Linguistic program at the University of Yaoundé I, Department of African Languages and Linguistics. She has completed her gratuade program in the same Department, and later on graduated with a Master's Degree in descriptive Linguistics in 2015. Ghislaine Assomo is part of the research team working on the documentation of Bati language and Oral traditions. She works on the project on a part-time basis; the remaining part of her schedule being devoted to her PhD research, which deals with aspects of Multilingualism within the broader area covered by the overall Bati Canton.
		Gwladys Makon is a team research member for the Bati projet. She is enrolled in the PHD programme at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics. Makon is a PHD fellow for the Bati projet, and she is mainly concerned with providing a comprehensive grammatical description of Bati language, all three dialects inclusive. During her undergraduate study at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé I, Gwladys Makon has red, among others, the followingn subjets: Introduction to general linguistics, phonetics, phonology (with special emphasis on Bantu languages), introduction to sociolinguistics, language teaching, language planning, etc.
Format:		video/mp4
		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073825
		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1073825%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Stimuli
		Pictures
		Lexicon
Type:		Video
		Audio
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Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073825
DateStamp:		2018-01-11
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Citation:		MBESSI MAKONDO (consultant); NGUE UM (researcher); ASSOMO; MAKON. 2016-07-26. Ngué Um Emmanuel.