OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-740D-E

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Title:		time-in-space_AB_2
		A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (consultant):		Adzoyo
Contributor (researcher):		Rebecca
Coverage:		Ghana
Date:		2008-11-13
Description:		Time in space experiment designed to probe how people orient temporal sequences in space.
		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).
		(Boroditsky, Lera, Alice Gaby & Stephen C. Levinson. 2008. Time in space. In Asifa Majid (ed.), Field Manual Volume 11, 52-76. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.) There are two non-linguistic tasks to assess the way people arrange time either as temporal progressions expressed in picture cards or done using small tokens or points in space to represent points in time. These non-linguistic tasks should be repeated with multiple participants as explained below. Responses are to be noted down on coding sheets and photographed and/or videotaped. For this experiment the researcher shows 4 cards to the participant which depict a temporal sequence (such as 4 stages of an apple being eaten) they are not given in the correct order. The participant's task is to arrange them in the correct order. The next set of tasks is a pointing task where the researcher points to a place directly in front of them both and says things like if this is today can you point to yesterday and tomorrow. The task is then repeated with different items at a different orientation. In this particular case: Da Adzoyo and Rebecca were facing slightly west of south (190 degrees). I was on Da Adzoyo's right. Da Adzoyo arranged the crosby, chicken, dog and banana pictures all L to R. Da Adzoyo understood the pointing task quite well and pointed as follows: monday behind tuesday still in front of her wednesday forward (more so than the tuesday prompt) when she was a baby back when she will be very old forward (arm straight meant to indicate that it's a long way away) last month back next month forward last year back next year forward sunrise back sunset forward Test points: right and left no problems NSEW, she had to think for a while and then pointed quite accurately though her north (which we started with was a little eastwards of compass north) forward and back no problems I also asked about uptown and downtown (two directions used often in Avatime direction descriptions) she pointed left and up a little for uptown and right and down for downtown (both accurate).
		English was the language of discussions and elicitation, Avatime was the target language
		Da Adzoyo answered the questions asked by Rebecca
		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.
		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 JVC Everio digital video camera. The file is saved in MPEG2 format with 3400 kbps video encoding rate and 256 kbps audio encoding rate. The aspect ratio is 4:3 and the size of the video is 352 x 576. It is recorded in PAL format.
Format:		video/x-mpeg2
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-740D-E
Publisher:		Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Stimuli
		time-in-space
		Avatime language
		English language
Subject (ISO639):		avn
		eng
Type:		video
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Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-740D-E
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Citation:		Rebecca (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
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Country:		United KingdomGhana
Area:		AfricaEurope