OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A966-0

Metadata
Title:		interview_MM-GE
		A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (interviewer):		Mathias
Contributor (researcher):		Rebecca
Contributor (speaker):		Grete
Coverage:		Ghana
Date:		2008-11-20
Description:		Mathias Mahunu and Rebecca Defina visited Grete Ebedi at her house in the afternoon and interviewed her about various topics. Her granddaughter was nearby behind the camera preparing fufu and she occasionally commented on what was being said. During the interview her husband came and sat next to her. This is the first section of the interview and has been cut from the larger recording. In this section Grete talks about her family and how Vane has changed. The time in space experiment can be found in the full recording and her giving directions can be found in interview_MM-GE_cut_dir-Gayie.
		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).
		Mathias asks Grete to talk about her children and grandchildren and when they were born. He also asks her about how Vane has changed and how she thinks it will change in the future. We also attempted to do the MPI for psycholinguistic's time in space experiment which 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. Then Mathias asks Grete to tell the way to get to the top of Mt Gemi which is directly in front of the participants, behind the camera.
		Both Mathias's question and Grete's responses are given in Avatime. Rebecca and Mathias occasionally speak in English.
		Mathias questions Grete. Grete responds.
		Grete is an elderly woman who lives in Vane with her husband, some of her children and grandchildren. She was born during the German occupation of the Avatime lands, hence the German name.
		Mathias is a Senior High School student 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.
		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 audio file was extracted from the video recording.
		This interview is the third of a series of interviews conducted by Mathias and Rebecca in the afternoon on the 20/11/2008. See interview_MM-FO and interview_MM-SM for the first two interviews in this series.
Format:		video/x-mpeg2
		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A966-0
Publisher:		Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Discourse
		past and future changes, time in space
		Avatime language
Subject (ISO639):		avn
Type:		video
		audio
OLAC Info
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
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A966-0
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Grete (speaker); Mathias (interviewer); Rebecca (researcher). 2008-11-20. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina.
Terms:		area_Africa country_GH iso639_avn
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Ghana
Area:		Africa