Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Tone Paradigms

Item Name: Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Tone Paradigms
Author(s): Steven Bird
LDC Catalog No.: LDC2003S02
ISBN: 1-58563-254-6
ISLRN: 973-117-906-652-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35111/req3-vx07
Release Date: April 28, 2003
Member Year(s): 2003
DCMI Type(s): Sound
Data Source(s): field recordings, microphone speech
Project(s): Talkbank
Language(s): Yemba
Language ID(s): ybb
License(s): LDC User Agreement for Non-Members
Online Documentation: LDC2003S02 Documents
Licensing Instructions: Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members
Citation: Bird, Steven. Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Tone Paradigms LDC2003S02. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2003.
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Introduction

Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Tone Paradigms was produced by Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2003S02 and ISBN 1-58563-254-6.

The data contains tone paradigms of the language Yémba (Bamileke Dschang), a Bamileke (Grassfields Bantu) language spoken by 300,000+ people in Southwestern Cameroon.

Data

There are 45 paradigm pages in html format. Each page lists 32 utterances, varying across subject, verb, and object. Each utterance has one to three links to recordings in .wav format, as well as a laryngograph recording (also in .wav format). Phonetic transcription has been done for every utterance tonological transcription has been done for a little more than half.

Recorded: June 1997, Dschang, Western Province, and recording studio of SIL Cameroon, Yaoundé

Digitized, Labelled and Segmented: 1997-1998 Phonetics Laboratory, University of Edinburgh

Transcribed and Annotated: 1998-2002 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.

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