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Metadata
Title:Ame-info-all_WE
A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (recorder):Rebecca
Contributor (translator):Wisdom
Coverage:Ghana
Date:2008-11-29
Description:Wisdom provides some information about Amedzofe for a tourist video.
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).
Wisdom talks about Amedzofe what the town is like and why it is a good place for tourists to visit
Wisdom first talks in English then in Avatime
Wisdom talks and Rebecca records
Wisdom was our contact person in the village Amedzofe and organised a gathering with a group of elders for us. He grew up in Amedzofe and has spent 11 years travelling through other African countries as a missionary. He has now trained as a priest.
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 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-A5FF-E
Publisher:Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Unknown
Amedzofe
Avatime language
English language
Subject (ISO639):avn
eng
Type:video

OLAC Info

Archive:  The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A5FF-E
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Wisdom (translator); Rebecca (recorder). 2008-11-29. 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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