oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6883-C
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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6883-C |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | S0810061 | |
| A Description and Documentation of Avatime | ||
| Contributor (consultant): | Sammy | |
| Contributor (researcher): | Saskia | |
| Coverage: | Ghana | |
| Date: | 2008-10-06 | |
| Description: | Elicitation session to find out tones on nouns. | |
| 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). | ||
| I asked Sammy to make sentences with some nouns, with and without 'definite' suffix. Every now and then I asked if a specific other sentence was also possible. I also asked Sammy to whistle the sentences. This session was designed to find out more about the tones on these nouns, in particular whether they change or not. In the end it doesn't look like I got the right data to check if the tones of the nouns change when followed by a high tone. When I asked for sentences without 'definite' suffix, I often got the noun with demonstrative 'ya' which seems to change the tone of any preceding syllable to extra high. I did get some sentences with the noun without suffix followed by something else, but often they seemed only marginally acceptable. | ||
| Questions were asked in English, words and sentences were given 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. | ||
| Sammy was one of our main informants for this project. He was born in Vane and has lived there most of his life. He has also spent some time in Accra. He speaks good English and Ewe. | ||
| The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz. | ||
| Transcription not time-aligned. | ||
| Format: | audio/x-wav | |
| text/x-toolbox-text | ||
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6883-C | |
| Publisher: | Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina | |
| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | ||
| Subject: | Elicitation session | |
| Unknown | ||
| noun tone | ||
| English language | ||
| Avatime language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | eng | |
| avn | ||
| Type: | audio | |
OLAC Info |
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| Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6883-C | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Saskia (researcher); Sammy (consultant). 2008-10-06. 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 | |