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Title:Interview with Fidelia
0136-Interview with Fidelia
A description and documentation of Avatime
Contributor:Fidelia Ohovi (Consultant)
Mathias Mahunu (Interviewer)
Rebecca Defina (Researcher)
Coverage:Ghana
Date:2008-11-20
Description:Mathias interviews Fidelia, about how to get to places, what Vane used to be like and how she thinks things will be in the future. Also we do the time in space experiment. Rebecca asked Mathias to find some elderly Avatime people who didn't speak English that would be happy to be interviewed. He found three such people. Rebecca and Mathias sat down and discussed the questions to be asked, the main goals of these interviews were to get directions, past and future changes stories and to run the time in space experiment with people who didn't speak English. Fidelia was the first elderly person he interviewed. The time in space experiment was designed by researchers at and affiliated with the MPI for Psycholinguistics. It aims to investigate how people map time onto space, for instance is the past behind, to the left or east of the speaker. The experiment consists of two parts. In the first part people are given sets of 4 cards showing a temporal sequence and asked to arrange them. In the second part the experimenter points to a place directly in front of them and fairly close by and tells them that this is the middle part of whatever sequence for instance midday or Wednesday in the sequence Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. The experimenter then asks them to point to the preceding and following times such as sunrise and sunset. The interview is conducted in Avatime, occasionally Rebecca and Mathias use some English. Mathias conducts the interview, Fidelia answers most questions but her daughter also often contributes. Rebecca mainly listens but also at times suggested which question should be asked next.
Language_Name: Avatime Language_Region: Africa Language_Country: Ghana Project_Status: Complete Year: 2008 Start_Date: 2008-05-01 End_Date: 2008-12-31
Format:video/mpeg
audio/x-wav
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI583551
FTG0145
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI583551%23
Publisher:Saskia Van Putten
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
Subject:Undetermined language
Avatime (Dominant)
Subject (ISO639):und
Type:Video
Audio

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Citation: Fidelia Ohovi (Consultant); Mathias Mahunu (Interviewer); Rebecca Defina (Researcher). 2008-11-20. Saskia Van Putten.
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