Elicitation
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- Compounds
- This task consists of phrases in Swedish, which the speaker translates into Övdalian. The aim is to see whether some Swedish phrases (e.g. 'den nya bilen' = 'the new car') is translated as a compound noun in Övdalian (e.g. 'ny-biln' = 'new-car-DEF'). Once the list is translated, the speaker and the researcher discuss the Övdalian phrases or words to probe deeper into the nuances of compounding in Övdalian.
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- Man and tree
- Sessions using the "Man and tree" stimuli. (The version I have used was created by Ann Senghas, using Playmobil figures.) "The Man and Tree task deals with location on the horizontal plane with both featured (man) and non-featured (e.g., tree) objects." References: * Levinson, Stephen C., Penelope Brown, Eve Danziger, Lourdes De León, John B. Haviland, Eric Pederson & Gunter Senft. 1992. Man and Tree & Space Games. In Stephen C. Levinson (ed.), Space stimuli kit 1.2: November 1992, 7-14. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. More information: * http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/volumes/1992/man-tree-space-games/
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- Photo matching
- The stimuli for this Director–Matcher task ("PhotoMatching") is 10 photographs showing landscape in Älvdalen and Northern Sweden. The Director describes one photograph at a time, and the Matcher's task is to pick the picture which is being described. Afterwards, the speakers and the researcher discuss the photographs ("PhotoDiscussion") to find more details than the ones mentioned in the matching. (In some cases, only the latter task was done together with one speaker.)
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- Positional verbs
- Sessions using the "Positional verbs" stimuli. "The task focuses on the exploration of the predicative component of topological expressions (e.g., ‘the cassavas are lying in the basket’), especially the contrastive elicitation of positional verbs." References: * Ameka, Felix, Carlien de Witte & David Wilkins. 1999. Picture series for positional verbs: Eliciting the verbal component in locative descriptions. In David Wilkins (ed.), Manual for the 1999 Field Season, 48-54. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. More information: * http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/volumes/1999/picture-series-positional-verbs-locative-descriptions/
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- Put and Take
- Sessions using the "Put and Take" video stimuli. "The goal of this task is to explore cross-linguistic universality and variability in the semantic categorisation of placement events (e.g., ‘putting a cup on the table’)." References: * Bowerman, Melissa, Marianne Gullberg, Asifa Majid & Bhuvana Narasimhan. 2004. Put project: the cross-linguistic encoding of placement events. In Asifa Majid (ed.), Field Manual Volume 9, 10-24. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. More information: * http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/volumes/2004/put-project/ * http://www.mpi.nl/departments/other-research/research-projects/categories/subprojects/put-and-take
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- Route descriptions
- "Route description" is a Director-Matcher task using a drawn map with a marked route on it. The Director's task is to describe the route to the Matcher, and the Matcher then fills in the route with a pen. There are four versions of the map, each one having a different route on it. This task is meant to elicit semi-spontaneous speech which focuses on prepositions and landscape terms. (The session RouteDesc_26 was done with just one speaker, who looked at the routes and described them to the researcher.)
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- Topological relations
- Sessions using the "Topological relations picture series" stimuli (a.k.a. "BowPed"). "This task is designed to elicit expressions of spatial relations." References: * Bowerman, Melissa & Eric Pederson. 1992. Topological relations picture series. In Stephen C. Levinson (ed.), Space stimuli kit 1.2: November 1992, 51. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. More information: * http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/volumes/1992/bowped/