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. |
| Related Works: | View |
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 |
Updates
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Due to a problem with the way a number of images are rendered by the Windows operating system, the CD is recommended to be viewed in the Unix operating system, which displays the icons correctly.
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.