Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms
| Item Name: | Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms |
| Author(s): | Steven Bird, John Bell |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2001S16 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-216-3 |
| ISLRN: | 147-689-240-962-1 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/ydek-8j04 |
| Release Date: | December 22, 2002 |
| Member Year(s): | 2001, 2002 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound |
| Data Source(s): | field recordings, microphone speech |
| Project(s): | Talkbank |
| Language(s): | Ngomba |
| Language ID(s): | jgo |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2001S16 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Bird, Steven, and John Bell. Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms LDC2001S16. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2001. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms was produced by Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2001S16 and ISBN 1-58563-216-3. Please see below for information regarding its collection, processing, and contents.
The data contains tone paradigms of the language Ngomba, a Bamileke (Grassfields Bantu) language spoken by some 63,000 people in the Western Province of Cameroon. Ngombas tone system is undescribed, but it has many similarities with the closely related Yémba language (also known as Bamileke Dschang).
Data
This publication contains 755 audio files. The files in rawdata are 21 extended audio and laryngograph recordings with ESPS xlabel files each one of the raw sound files contains the complete recording of one of the tenses. The files in paradigms are HTML indexes linked to 734 one to three second audio clips in .wav format. Each HTML page lists 32 utterances, varying across subject, verb, and object. Transcriptions are provided for the audio clips using the IPA-based orthography, and using phonetic and tonological transcription systems.
Recorded: June 21, 1997, Recording Studio of SIL Cameroon, Yaoundé
Digitized, Labelled and Segmented: 1997-1998 Phonetics Laboratory, University of Edinburgh
Transcribed and Annotated: 1998-2001 LDC, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsorship:
| SIL Cameroon |
| Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Grant R000235540 |
| National Science Foundation (US) Grant 9983258 |
| National Science Foundation (US) TalkBank Project Grant BCS-998009, KDI, SBE |
| Linguistic Data Consortium |
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Note
The distribution costs for the first 100 copies of this publication (not counting copies distributed to LDC members) are covered by NSF Grant Number 9983258, and those copies are available at no cost to qualified researchers. After the first 100 copies are distributed, additional copies of the corpus will be available under standard terms and costs.