OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-744E-1

Metadata
Title:		tempest_AB
		A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (consultant):		Adzoyo
Coverage:		Ghana
Date:		2008-11-12
Description:		Elicitation based on Bohnemeyer's (2002) TEMPEST experiment. It is aimed at finding out how and whether speakers of a language make aspectual and relative timing distinctions. There is a transcription but it isn't all typed.
		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).
		Bohnemeyer developed the TEMPEST experiment during his PhD (2002). This experiment is based on video clips showing two events (such as eating a banana or lying down). One event happens on the left hand side of the screen and the other on the right. There are several versions of each event pairing which contrast the relative timing between the events. So in one the banana eating will finish before the other person lies down and in another the person will lie down while the other is still eating the banana. I found that the clips that Bohnemeyer used were not usable in the Avatime context. Thus Saskia and I (Rebecca) rerecorded our own version of video clips. We did not rerecord the full set but made sure that the different event types and relative orderings were all represented. You can contact me to get copies of the clips. In this task the clips were paired so that in each pair the only difference was the relative ordering of the events (so like the pair mentioned above). The consultant's task was to watch the two video clips and describe the difference between them. This was meant to focus them in on the difference in temporal ordering rather than the particulars of the events. I found that people were still quite focussed on the particulars of the events and did not abstract the temporal ordering far away from them.
		English was the language of discussions, Avatime was the target language
		Da Adzo answers questions about the video clips. Rebecca gives the instructions
		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.
		This file contains the segmentation used in the transcription. The transcription hasn't been typed up yet though.
		This is a partial transcription only. The rest has been transcribed but not typed yet. The numbers correspond to the segments in the ELAN file.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
		UTF-8
		application/pdf
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-744E-1
Publisher:		Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Stimuli
		tempest
		Avatime language
		English language
Subject (ISO639):		avn
		eng
Type:		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-744E-1
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Adzoyo (consultant). 2008-11-12. 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