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Metadata
Title:S0811201
A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (consultant):Yao
Contributor (researcher):Saskia
Coverage:Ghana
Date:2008-11-20
Description:Elicitation session with Fo Yao looking into motion expression. Transcribed by Saskia.
The Avatime project aims to describe and document Avatime. The researchers involved in this project are Rebecca Defina and Saskia van Putten. The project included fieldwork in Ghana in 2008 and was completed in 2009. Outcomes of the project are: (1) audio and video recordings of different genres, of which 13,5 hours have been transcribed and annotated, (2) an Avatime-English wordlist, (3) grammar notes and (4) two Master's theses, one on the expression of motion in Avatime (Saskia van Putten) and one on aspect and mood in Avatime (Rebecca Defina).
Saskia demonstrated some motion events with a doll moving through a toy landscape and asked Fo Yao what this 'person' did. Fo Yao gave the Avatime descriptions of the scenes. Every now and then, Saskia tried if there were other ways of expressing the scene or asked for the Avatime translation of an English sentence.
Every now and then Saskia asks a question in English, Fo Yao mostly speaks Avatime.
Saskia van Putten is one of the researchers in this project. She did her bachelor in Languages and Cultures of Africa and her research master in Linguistics, both at Leiden University. She started PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 2009. Saskia grew up and still lives in the Netherlands.
Fo Yao was one of our main consultants. He helped us transcribe and translate texts, gave us information about cultural practises and helped us in many long elicitation sessions. He was born in Vane and worked as a teacher before he retired. Sadly, he passed away in October 2009.
The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz.
This ELAN file only includes some notes and references to the transcription, not the actual transcription itself.
Transcription of the session, made by Saskia.
Format:audio/x-wav
text/x-eaf+xml
text/x-toolbox-text
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6846-2
Publisher:Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Elicitation session
Unknown
motion
Avatime language
English language
Subject (ISO639):avn
eng
Type:audio

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Search Info

Citation: Saskia (researcher); Yao (consultant). 2008-11-20. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina.
Terms: area_Africa area_Europe country_GB country_GH iso639_avn iso639_eng

Inferred Metadata

Country: United KingdomGhana
Area: AfricaEurope


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