OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6F13-0 |
Metadata | ||
Title: | RS0809112 | |
A Description and Documentation of Avatime | ||
Contributor (consultant): | Sammy | |
Contributor (researcher): | Saskia | |
Rebecca | ||
Coverage: | Ghana | |
Date: | 2008-09-11 | |
Description: | Elicitation session with Sammy looking into subject agreement markers in the aorist and minimal -/+ ATR pairs. | |
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 and Rebecca first tried to elicit minimal pairs with high vowels differing only in ATR value. They went through a list of possible minimal pairs like this described in Maddieson (1998). They then elicited verbs with subject agreement markers from different noun classes in the aorist. | ||
English was used for elicitation and discussion. Avatime was the language under discussion. | ||
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. | ||
This is not a very accurate transcription, as it was one of our first and hasn't been changed since then. Transcribed by Saskia. | ||
Maddieson, Ian. 1998. Collapsing vowel-harmony and doubly-articulated fricatives: two myths about the Avatime phonological system. In Ian Maddieson and T.J. Hinnebusch (eds.), Language history and linguistic description in Africa, 155-166. Trention, NJ/Asmara: Africa World Press. | ||
Format: | audio/x-wav | |
text/x-eaf+xml | ||
Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-6F13-0 | |
Publisher: | Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina | |
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | ||
Subject: | Elicitation session | |
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vowel, ATR, aorist, subject_prefix | ||
English language | ||
Avatime language | ||
Subject (ISO639): | eng | |
avn | ||
Type: | audio | |
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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_00-0000-0000-0016-6F13-0 | |
DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
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Search Info | ||
Citation: | Sammy (consultant); Saskia (researcher); Rebecca (researcher). 2008-09-11. 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 |