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Metadata
Title:S0811131
A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (consultant):Adzoyo
Contributor (researcher):Saskia
Coverage:Ghana
Date:2008-11-13
Description:Saskia shows the 'run walk crawl climb' video clips to Adzoyo and asks her to describe them. Annotated in ELAN 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 shows the 'run walk crawl climb' video clips to Adzoyo and asks her to tell her after each clip what the person or animal in the clip did. The video clips show mostly animals but also some people moving in different ways. The set of clips has been designed by researchers involved in the 'motion encoding in language' project at NTNU.
Saskia explains the procedure in English and does not say much during the recording. Every now and then she asks a question in English. Adzoyo describes the videos in 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.
Da Adzo was one of our main consultants. She has helped us transcribe and translate recordings, helped us in elicitation sessions and gave us cultural information. She was born in Vane, moved to Accra after she got married and moved back to Vane at 62.
The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz.
Exported from ELAN.
Annotated by Saskia.
Format:audio/x-wav
text/x-toolbox-text
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6859-C
Publisher:Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Elicitation session
Unknown
run_walk_crawl_climb, motion
Avatime language
English language
Subject (ISO639):avn
eng
Type:audio

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6859-C
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Saskia (researcher); Adzoyo (consultant). 2008-11-13. 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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