OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1101720

Metadata
Title:		Re-speaking of session entitled 'Kell_Historical-Life_01'
		Kell_Historical-Life_03_BK
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor:		ASSOMO
Contributor (consultant):		MBESSI MAKONDO
Coverage:		Cameroon
Description:		Re-speaking sessions consist in having a native speaker of the vernacular language under study repeat the speech being played back to him in chuncks. The re-speaker is requested to utter pre-recorded speech - most of the time by a different speaker by himself - slowly and distinctively. The whole process of re-speaking is further recorded to serve as backup resource for future elicitation of the original recording. In the specific case of this re-speaking session, the speaker has been requested to suggest a translation in French for every chunck of recording which he has previously re-spoken.
		The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.
		Two actors participate in the session. The first actor is the researcher. The researcher plays back previously delimited portions of a recording. Delimitation of portions of recording is decided by the annotator in ELAN. There is no absolute objectivity in deciding about the length of a portion (otherwise refered to in ELAN as 'annotation'). However, the annotator endeavors as much as she/he can to match each portion to an intonational unit, following the flow of speech produced by the previously recorded speaker.
		Assomo Celestine Ghislaine is a PhD student who is enroled in the Linguistic program at the University of Yaoundé I, Department of African Languages and Linguistics. She has completed her gratuade program in the same Department, and later on graduated with a Master's Degree in descriptive Linguistics in 2015. Ghislaine Assomo is part of the research team working on the documentation of Bati language and Oral traditions. She works on the project on a part-time basis; the remaining part of her schedule being devoted to her PhD research, which deals with aspects of Multilingualism within the broader area covered by the overall Bati Canton.
		Mbessi Makondo Gilbert as acted as one of the key informants for the research team during the first year of the project. Due to his extensive multilingualism coupled with a high sense of public network and relations, he has assisted the research team in most of their whereabouts throughout the various consultants who have agreed to lend themselves to research exercises. In some cases, Mbessi Gilbert has acted as the interviewer. This approach has been privileged in surveys dealing with anthropological, cultural and religous aspects. He had been trained by the research team in the monitoring of interviews, and in questionnaire administration, and has proven to be a talented and committed research assistant.
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1101720
		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1101720%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Discourse
		Unspecified
Type:		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1101720
DateStamp:		2019-03-31
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Search Info
Citation:		ASSOMO; MBESSI MAKONDO (consultant). n.d. Ngué Um Emmanuel.