OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A964-2

Metadata
Title:		interview_MM-SM
		A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (consultant):		Samuel
Contributor (interviewer):		Mathias
Contributor (researcher):		Rebecca
Coverage:		Ghana
Date:		2008-11-20
Description:		Mathias interviews his grandfather, Samuel, about how to get to places, what Vane used to be like and how he thinks things will be in the future, we also do the time in space experiment
		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).
		Rebecca asked Mathias to find some elderly Avatime people who didn't speak English that would be happy to be interviewed. He found three such people. Rebecca and Mathias sat down and discussed the questions to be asked, the main goals of these interviews were to get directions, past and future changes stories and to run the time in space experiment with people who didn't speak English. Samuel was the second elderly person he interviewed. The time in space experiment was designed by researchers at and affiliated with the MPI for psycholinguistics. It aims to investigate the how people map time onto space, for instance is the past behind, to the left or east of the speaker. The experiment consists of two parts. In the first part people are given sets of 4 cards showing a temporal sequence and asked to arrange them. In the second part the experimenter points to a place directly in front of them and fairly close by and tells them that this is the middle part of whatever sequence for instance midday or Wednesday in the sequence Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. The experimenter then asks them to point to the preceding and following times such as sunrise and sunset.
		The interview is conducted in Avatime, occasionally Rebecca and Mathias use some English
		Mathias conducts the interview, Samuel answers. Rebecca mainly listens but also at times suggested which question should be asked next.
		Mathias is a Senior High School student in Vane.
		Samuel is Mathias's grandfather. Mathias lives with him and his wife in Vane.
		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.
		This is the second of a series of interviews, the others are interview_MM-FO and interview_MM-GE. An excerpt of this recording has been made and partially transcribed it is interview_MM-SM_cut.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg2
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A964-2
Publisher:		Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Discourse
		directions, past and future changes
		Avatime language
Subject (ISO639):		avn
Type:		audio
		video
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-A964-2
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Mathias (interviewer); Samuel (consultant); Rebecca (researcher). 2008-11-20. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina.
Terms:		area_Africa country_GH iso639_avn
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Ghana
Area:		Africa