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Metadata
Title:RS0809223
A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (consultant):Sammy
Contributor (researcher):Saskia
Rebecca
Coverage:Ghana
Date:2008-09-22
Description:Elicitation session with Sammy, looking into motion expression. 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).
First Rebecca and Saskia showed Sammy the last seven Slobin manner clips and asked him to describe what the person in the video did. Then Rebecca and Saskia demonstrated some motion events and asked Sammy to describe these. Sammy himself also demonstrated some events.
Instructions and discussion in English, responses to clips and demonstrations in Avatime.
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.
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.
Rebecca Defina is one of the researchers in this project. She did her bachelors in Linguistics and Mathematics at the University of Sydney and her research master in Linguistics at Leiden University. She started PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 2010. She grew up in Australia and now lives in the Netherlands.
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.
We used the Slobin manner clips, which can be found in the stimuli set of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Format:audio/x-wav
text/x-toolbox-text
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6F00-4
Publisher:Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Elicitation session
Unknown
motion, slobin_manner_clips
English language
Avatime language
Subject (ISO639):eng
avn
Type:audio

OLAC Info

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6F00-4
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Sammy (consultant); Saskia (researcher); Rebecca (researcher). 2008-09-22. 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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