OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CCD-2

Metadata
Title:		Song of the Owl
		Languages of Southwest Ambrym
Contributor (annotator):		von Prince
Contributor (consultant):		BV
Contributor (translator):		JM
Coverage:		Vanuatu
Date:		2009-09-26
Description:		In this story, an owl puts a crying child to rest with its song. The bundle consists of an audio recording and its annotation, including glosses and translation.
		The goal of this project is the documentation of the three major languages in the Southwest of the pacific island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The major objectives include the creation of both academic and local dictionaries, grammatical descriptions of the three languages as well as extensive recordings of the languages with an emphasis on language use in connection with specific cultural pracitces such as sand drawings, dances and songs.
		A couple and their infant child go to the shore to wash clothes. The child keeps crying while they wash, but then they hear a song and the song makes the child stop crying. It turns out, that the singer is an owl which comes floating on a raft.
		The story was told by speaker BV, recorded, annotated and translated into English by Kilu von Prince, with the help of JM.
		The informant is vice chief of his village. He is probably in his early thirties and does not know some of the archaic terms, but is eager to share his rich knowledge of stories and sayings.
		JM has assisted at most of the transcriptions and translations of the recordings in Daakaka, being a very gifted informant. He has spend part of his education in the country's capital Vila.
		Kilu von Prince has chosen the grammar of Daakaka to be the subject of her dissertation. Her purpose in the DoBeS project "Languages of West Ambrym" is to document and to help preserve the languages Daakaka and Ral kalein by collecting language data, establishing lexical databases and providing local communities with orthographies, dictionaries and printed accounts of traditional stories for use in education.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CCD-2
Publisher:		Manfred Krifka
		Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Subject:		Discourse
		Narrative
		Unspecified
		Daakaka language
		Dakaka
Subject (ISO639):		bpa
Type:		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0021-6CCD-2
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		BV (consultant); JM (translator); von Prince (annotator). 2009-09-26. Manfred Krifka.
Terms:		area_Pacific country_VU iso639_bpa
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Vanuatu
Area:		Pacific