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[Lexical elicitation, conversations]

  • Item identifier: 2018-03.004
  • Date: 03 Jul 1965 to 04 Jul 1965
  • Contributors: Lawrence Joseph (consultant); Claris Peters (consultant); Sylvia Peters (consultant); Gladwyn Kingsley Noble Jr. (researcher); Manjari Ohala (donor)
  • Language: Wapishana (wap)
  • Place: Rupununi River, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Guyana
  • Description: File 2018-03.004_A begins on July 3, 1965 with G.K. Noble conducting lexical and sentence elicitation on Wapishana with Lawrence Joseph. At 25'53" Lawrence Joseph has a conversation with Sylvia Peters in Wapishana. Possible correspondences with unknown notebooks are summarized as "3/7=7-16." At 27'18" lexical elicitation resumes. File 2018-03.004_B begins on July 4, 1965 with Noble conducting sentence elicitation on Wapishana with Joseph (notebook correspondences summarized as "4/7-1"). At 18'34" Joseph has a conversation with a woman named Maud ("4/7-3"). At 21'16" Joseph has a conversation with a boy named Basil ("5/7-8"). At 22'22" Joseph tells "the baboon story." At 28'04" a girl Claris Peters speaks.
  • Availability: Online access
  • Catalog history: Reel 4 sides A & B
  • Collection: Linguistic Materials on Indigenous Languages of Guyana
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: [Lexical elicitation, conversations], 2018-03.004, in "Linguistic Materials on Indigenous Languages of Guyana", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BP01S8.

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