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- Language and Cognition
- africa
- Avatime
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- 2008
- elicitation
- Saskia
- S0811202
S0811202
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- Name : S0811202
- Title : S0811202
- Date : 2008-11-20
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- Description : Elicitation session with Fo Yao looking into motion expression. Transcribed by Saskia.
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- Continent : Africa
- Country : Ghana
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- Address : Big green house, Vane
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- Name : Avatime
- Title : A Description and Documentation of Avatime
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- Name : Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
- Address : MPI for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Email : saskia.vanputten@mpi.nl
- Organisation : Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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- Description : 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).
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- Genre : Experiment or task
- SubGenre : Elicitation session
- Task : Unspecified
- Modalities : speech
- Subject : motion
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- Interactivity : interactive
- PlanningType : Unknown
- Involvement : elicited
- SocialContext : Unspecified
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- Channel : Unspecified
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- Description : Every now and then Saskia asks a question in English, Fo Yao mostly speaks Avatime.
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- Id : ISO639-3:avn
- Name : Avatime
- Dominant : true
- SourceLanguage : Unspecified
- TargetLanguage : Unspecified
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- Description : Avatime (also called Siyase or Sideme) is one of a group of languages called Togo Remnant, Central Togo or preferably Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM). These languages are usually classified as Kwa, Niger-Congo. Avatime is most closely related to Tafi and Nyangbo. Avatime is spoken in eight villages in the Volta Region of Ghana by approximately 10,000 speakers. The language is bordered to the west by Tafi and Nyangbo, to the north by Logba and to the east and south by Ewe. Ewe is the dominant language in the region. Most Avatime speakers also speak Ewe and those who have been to school speak English too. Ewe is mainly used in the first years of primary school, in church and to a certain extent on the market. English is used in the higher years of school. In events where important non-Avatimes are present, Ewe and English are used. Radio and television programmes are usually in English or Akan, and sometimes in Ewe. Avatime is only spoken in domestic and traditional domains of use. There is not yet a standard orthography for Avatime.
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- Id : ISO639-3:eng
- Name : English
- Dominant : false
- SourceLanguage : Unspecified
- TargetLanguage : Unspecified
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- Description : English is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of Ghana.
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- Description : Saskia demonstrated some motion events with a doll moving through a toy landscape and asked Fo Yao what this 'person' did. Fo Yao gave the Avatime descriptions of the scenes. She also asked for the Avatime translations of English motion expressions.
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- Role : Researcher
- Name : Saskia
- FullName : Saskia van Putten
- Code : SvP
- FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
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- BirthDate : Unspecified
- Sex : Female
- Education : University
- Anonymized : false
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- years : 23
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- Name : Saskia van Putten
- Address : P.O. Box 310, 6500 AB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Email : saskia.vanputten@mpi.nl
- Organisation : Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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- Description : 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.
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- Description : Saskia speaks Dutch and English fluently (Dutch is her mothertongue). She has intermediate knowledge of French and understands some German. She speaks basic Ewe after studying this languages at university and staying in an Ewe town for two months. She also has basic knowledge of Avatime after four months of fieldwork on this language.
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- Id : ISO639-3:eng
- Name : English
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : false
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- Description : English is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of Ghana.
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- Id : ISO639-3:fra
- Name : French
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : false
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- Description : French is a Romance (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of many West-African countries, including all neighbouring countries of Ghana.
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- Id : ISO639-3:avn
- Name : Avatime
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : false
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- Description : Avatime (also called Siyase or Sideme) is one of a group of languages called Togo Remnant, Central Togo or preferably Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM). These languages are usually classified as Kwa, Niger-Congo. Avatime is most closely related to Tafi and Nyangbo. Avatime is spoken in eight villages in the Volta Region of Ghana by approximately 10,000 speakers. The language is bordered to the west by Tafi and Nyangbo, to the north by Logba and to the east and south by Ewe. Ewe is the dominant language in the region. Most Avatime speakers also speak Ewe and those who have been to school speak English too. Ewe is mainly used in the first years of primary school, in church and to a certain extent on the market. English is used in the higher years of school. In events where important non-Avatimes are present, Ewe and English are used. Radio and television programmes are usually in English or Akan, and sometimes in Ewe. Avatime is only spoken in domestic and traditional domains of use. There is not yet a standard orthography for Avatime.
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- Id : ISO639-3:nld
- Name : Dutch
- MotherTongue : true
- PrimaryLanguage : true
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- Description : Dutch is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken mainly in the Netherlands.
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- Role : Consultant
- Name : Yao
- FullName : Walter Ray Ofasi
- Code : WO
- FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
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- BirthDate : Unspecified
- Sex : Male
- Education : trained as a teacher
- Anonymized : false
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- years : 69
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- Description : Fo Yao was one of our main consultants. He helped us transcribe and translate texts, gave us information about cultural practises and helped us in many long elicitation sessions. He was born in Vane and worked as a teacher before he retired. Sadly, he passed away in October 2009.
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- Description : Fo Yao speaks Avatime as his native language (Vane dialect). He also speaks Ewe and excellent English
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- Id : ISO639-3:ewe
- Name : Ewe
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : false
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- Description : Ewe is a Kwa (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Ghana and Togo. It is the dominant language of the Volta Region of Ghana.
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- Id : ISO639-3:avn
- Name : Avatime
- MotherTongue : true
- PrimaryLanguage : true
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- Description : Avatime (also called Siyase or Sideme) is one of a group of languages called Togo Remnant, Central Togo or preferably Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM). These languages are usually classified as Kwa, Niger-Congo. Avatime is most closely related to Tafi and Nyangbo. Avatime is spoken in eight villages in the Volta Region of Ghana by approximately 10,000 speakers. The language is bordered to the west by Tafi and Nyangbo, to the north by Logba and to the east and south by Ewe. Ewe is the dominant language in the region. Most Avatime speakers also speak Ewe and those who have been to school speak English too. Ewe is mainly used in the first years of primary school, in church and to a certain extent on the market. English is used in the higher years of school. In events where important non-Avatimes are present, Ewe and English are used. Radio and television programmes are usually in English or Akan, and sometimes in Ewe. Avatime is only spoken in domestic and traditional domains of use. There is not yet a standard orthography for Avatime.
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- Id : ISO639-3:eng
- Name : English
- MotherTongue : false
- PrimaryLanguage : false
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- Description : English is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of Ghana.
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- Description : The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz.
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- Description : Transcription of the session, made by Saskia.
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- Description : This ELAN file only contains some notes and references to the toolbox file which contains the transcription.
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Citation
Saskia van Putten. (2008). Item "S0811202" in collection "Shared". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0016-6842-A. (Accessed 2022-01-26)
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