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Multi-CAST Vera'a (audio recordings)
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Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Year of publication:
2015
Language:
Multilingual/Other
Abstract:
This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Vera'a corpus (Schnell 2015), originally published in May 2015 with version 1505 of the Multi-CAST collection (Haig & Schnell 2015). The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately. The recordings are available as WAV and MP3 files.
Vera'a [vera1241], is an Oceanic (Austronesian) language from the village of the same name on Vanua Lava, one of the Banks Islands in North Vanuatu. The language has approximately 450 speakers and is the first language of most inhabitants of Vera'a and the coastline to the north of it. Vera'a is closely related to the neighbouring language Vurës, and speakers of Vera'a also speak Vurës.
Both languages have been extensively documented within a VolkswagenStiftung-funded DOBES documentation project (2006–2012; PI: Dr Catriona Hyslop-Malau). Vera'a has been the focus of Stefan Schnell's PhD project at Kiel University (2007–2010, see Schnell 2011), and Schnell has subsequently been undertaking additional documentary work on Vera'a as part of his ARC-funded DECRA project Typology of Language Use (ARC grant no. DE120102017) in 2012–2015, hosted by La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia).
The Multi-CAST Vera'a corpus consists of 10 folkloristic narrative texts collected and annotated by Stefan Schnell. They constitute a subcorpus of a larger corpus of Vera'a compiled and curated by Stefan Schnell in close collaboration with speakers of the language and researchers of other disciplines from outside the community. Annotations with RefIND were added to the corpus in 2019 by Stefan Schnell and Maria Vollmer.
Citation
Schnell, Stefan. 2015. Multi-CAST Vera'a. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.
References
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.
Schnell, Stefan. 2011. A grammar of Vera'a. Ph.D. dissertation, Kiel University, Germany.
Vera'a [vera1241], is an Oceanic (Austronesian) language from the village of the same name on Vanua Lava, one of the Banks Islands in North Vanuatu. The language has approximately 450 speakers and is the first language of most inhabitants of Vera'a and the coastline to the north of it. Vera'a is closely related to the neighbouring language Vurës, and speakers of Vera'a also speak Vurës.
Both languages have been extensively documented within a VolkswagenStiftung-funded DOBES documentation project (2006–2012; PI: Dr Catriona Hyslop-Malau). Vera'a has been the focus of Stefan Schnell's PhD project at Kiel University (2007–2010, see Schnell 2011), and Schnell has subsequently been undertaking additional documentary work on Vera'a as part of his ARC-funded DECRA project Typology of Language Use (ARC grant no. DE120102017) in 2012–2015, hosted by La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia).
The Multi-CAST Vera'a corpus consists of 10 folkloristic narrative texts collected and annotated by Stefan Schnell. They constitute a subcorpus of a larger corpus of Vera'a compiled and curated by Stefan Schnell in close collaboration with speakers of the language and researchers of other disciplines from outside the community. Annotations with RefIND were added to the corpus in 2019 by Stefan Schnell and Maria Vollmer.
Citation
Schnell, Stefan. 2015. Multi-CAST Vera'a. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.
References
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.
Schnell, Stefan. 2011. A grammar of Vera'a. Ph.D. dissertation, Kiel University, Germany.
Type:
Sound
Keywords:
spoken language corpus
Vera'a
Format:
audio/mpeg
audio/wav
Version:
1
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