DOBES Archive
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- moose_hunt001
- the consultant talks about moose hunting and about some place names in the area; generally gets into story-telling mood; mostly in English.
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- hunting009
- This session is about hunting and camping vocabularies (e.g. marten, my trapline, camp site, fire place, bow and arrow). Little phrases are also elicited (e.g. I/they shot a beaver, I didn't shoot/kill a beaver, did you shoot a beaver?, I go for my traps, I walk across, I paddle on the river,I will set the house on fire). The consultant gives also the Beaver names for Fox Lake, Paddle Prairie, High Level, Peace River, Margret Lake, Caribou River, etc.). Some miscellaneous vocabulary.
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- qualities003
- Phrases with the adjectives "rough" and "stiff" are elicited (e.g. This man looks rough, the road used to be rough). Some other phrases like "I'm getting fat" or "he's getting smart" are elicited. Some difficult words are elicited at the beginning of the session.
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- sit002
- Different forms of "to sit on something" are elicited.
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- bullrushes_lake001
- The consultant talks about people who used to go hunting for little ducklings.
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- wood004
- wood, parts of a teepee
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- ws-early_contact001
- In this part of the workshop, the participants were asked to have a conversation or to tell a story. Here, speakers talk about different topics.
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- ws-nabaane_story001
- In this part of the workshop, the participants were asked to make conversation or to tell a story. Here, the speaker tells one version of the nabaane stories which are known in great variety and many versions. The speaker is 500.
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- ethnonyms002
- consultant talks about some more ethnonyms and placenames. He also tells a story about the war with the Slave (in English).
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- landmarks_animals001
- Many animal denotations of the area, also many land marks, and trees and berries elicited. Miscellaneous vocabulary.
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- placenames003
- Some placenames of the lakes and other places in the area. Some landmarks are also elicited.
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- beaver_porcupine001
- consultant tells the Beaver and Porcupine Story in English, explains some of the vocabulary in Beaver (afterwards)
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- ws-potato001
- In this part of the workshop, the participants are asked to pronounce some Beaver words in order to get comparable data for further dialect analyses. Here: potato
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- paradigm_feed001
- paradigm of "to feed"
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- misc_voc006
- speaker talks about whatever, his wife cuts meat, general vocabulary
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- bite002
- miscellaneous verb forms of "to bite" and "to mock".
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- paradigm_walk001
- some work on the verb for "to walk" (walking to and from places); together with some placenames, but mostly paradigmatic
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- weather012
- frosty weather vocabulary (to melt, to thaw).
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- bodyparts003
- speaker talks about body parts and moose in general, some more vocabulary