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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-83C4-0 |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | Gbadzeme07-speech | |
| A Description and Documentation of Avatime | ||
| Contributor: | Saskia | |
| Contributor (speaker): | Okusie Takyi X | |
| Coverage: | Ghana | |
| Date: | 2008-09-20 | |
| Description: | Speech at Gbadzeme chief oath swearing | |
| 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). | ||
| The new chief of Gbadzeme (one of the other Avatime villages) came to swear fealty to the paramount chief of Avatime in Vane. This is one of the speeches made at the ceremony. | ||
| The speech was said in Avatime. | ||
| Okusie Takyi X the chief of Biakpa gives this speech. Many spectators were present. Saskia filmed it. | ||
| 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. | ||
| He is the chief of Biakpa, he also teaches at the senior high school in Vane. | ||
| 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. | ||
| This is part of the recording of the oath swearing of the Gbadzeme chief, it is contained in Gdazeme-all and the other parts are all named Gbadzeme followed by a number representing their order and a short description of what they are. | ||
| Format: | video/x-mpeg2 | |
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-83C4-0 | |
| Publisher: | Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina | |
| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | ||
| Subject: | Ritual/religious texts | |
| speech | ||
| Avatime language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | avn | |
| Type: | video | |
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| Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
| GetRecord: | Pre-generated XML file | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-83C4-0 | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Saskia; Okusie Takyi X (speaker). 2008-09-20. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina. | |
| Terms: | area_Africa country_GH iso639_avn | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | Ghana | |
| Area: | Africa | |